The Top Language Coaches
The Top Language Coaches
Ever wondered what sets apart exceptional language coaches from the rest?
These experts go beyond traditional teaching methods, offering personalized approaches that cater to diverse learners and corporate clients alike.
From refining communication skills in multinational boardrooms to guiding beginners through the intricacies of a new language, these coaches bring a wealth of experience and innovative techniques to the table.
In this article, we explore the insights of top language coaches who are revolutionizing the field with their unique methodologies. Whether it's integrating neuroscience into language learning or fostering confidence through interactive sessions, each coach brings a distinctive perspective shaped by years of experience and a passion for linguistic empowerment.
Join us as we uncover their secrets to success and discover how they're reshaping language education and communication training in today's globalized world.
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In Brief : The Top Language Coaches
- Gabriella Kovács - Gabriella Kovács, an internationally certified language coach, specializes in training language professionals and coaching corporate clients to enhance communication skills.
- Akari Piotrowski - Akari Piotrowski, an online Japanese language teacher and coach, offers interactive sessions focused on student-centered learning to build confidence and proficiency in Japanese.
- Beáta Kovács - Beáta Kovács, a qualified language and career coach, helps clients overcome language learning obstacles and prepare for career transitions through solution-focused coaching.
- Robert Kos - Robert Kos, a language coach based in Paris, provides highly individualized coaching to enhance authentic communication and intercultural understanding.
- Kathy J. Ellis - Kathy J. Ellis, an experienced educator and language coach, approaches coaching with warmth, curiosity, and a focus on the mindset and results.
- Jennie Reed - Jennie Reed specializes in helping English teachers improve their own language skills, particularly pronunciation, to enhance their effectiveness in the classroom.
- Valérie Janssen - Valérie Janssen, founder of YOUR LANGUAGE COACH, offers German language courses and professional application coaching with a focus on cross-cultural skills and practical language proficiency.
- Nikki Bannister - Nikki Bannister, an online language coach, brings creativity and effectiveness to language learning through her natural approach.
- Olesia Kobylskaia - Olesia Kobylskaia, a language coach specializing in Russian and English, brings her passion for languages and teaching expertise to her profession.
- Nicole Kaup - Nicole Kaup helps professionals overcome speech limitations and improve their English communication skills with a systematic approach.
- Scottie Spurzem - Scottie Spurzem, the English Language Coach, empowers international business professionals to communicate effectively in American English.
Gabriella Kovács
Australian-born Gabriella Kovács MA, PCC is an internationally certified language coach with ICF, a business communication trainer, language teacher, teacher trainer, international speaker and author of A Comprehensive Language Coaching Handbook (2022, Pavilion Publications and Media). Working in a corporate environment with clients she also works closely with language teachers to add to their coaching skill sets. She co-founded ILCA, the International Language Coaching Association, supporting language practitioners globally.
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
The scope of my coaching is based on twin pillars: training language professionals and corporate client communication coaching. I specialise in adding dimension to ongoing language learning education and have co-created the groundbreaking FEEL programme for teachers to apply through ILCA. I work with a holistic, learner-centred approach in language acquisition processes and improve corporate communication for multinational clients. We host regular free international language teaching events and have recently organised the First International Language Coaching Conference in London. These activities contribute to strong interest around an emerging niche: coaching in language education.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
Difficult to put a finger on one contributing factor, but remaining curious and open to support teachers, whom I also learn from through their questions and diverse backgrounds. Regarding approaches, I’d highlight Appreciative Inquiry, also through the works of the late Zoltán Dörnyei on motivation , Sarah Mercer on psychology in language education, Todd Cherches’ Visual Coaching and the works of Adam Grant, Christian van Nieuwerburgh and a blend of mentoring and facilitation, cross-cultural and digital communication frameworks.
Akari Piotrowski
I was born in Japan and am now based in Europe. I am the online Japanese language teacher&coach, and also the founder&owner of the language project “Mochifika”.
I help various Japanese learners around the world. I have a high passion for teaching&learning languages, besides my native language Japanese, I speak more than 5 languages.
The sessions with me are completely different from school. I guide students to take the nervousness out of the new language and speak with confidence
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
In traditional Japanese language education and school, students repeat boring grammar or simply repeat sentences for no purpose. However, my sessions are definitely different from these old-school teaching methods.
Sessions with me are always student-center and interactive. They can start talking about themselves in Japanese even absolutely beginners from day 1.
In a session with me, students can experience the joy of learning the language and feel it as a more familiar one. This experience can also be applied to language learning other than Japanese.
This is because I am not just a person who has studied Japanese language education, but I can offer and propose various activities based on my experience of learning various languages.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
Difficult to put a finger on one contributing factor, but remaining curious and open to support teachers, whom I also learn from through their questions and diverse backgrounds. Regarding approaches, I’d highlight Appreciative Inquiry, also through the works of the late Zoltán Dörnyei on motivation , Sarah Mercer on psychology in language education, Todd Cherches’ Visual Coaching and the works of Adam Grant, Christian van Nieuwerburgh and a blend of mentoring and facilitation, cross-cultural and digital communication frameworks.
Beáta Kovács
I work as a qualified language and career coach. I am also a trainer and mentor of language learners and teachers. Besides private coaching clients, I teach business English and communication skills development at Budapest Business School, Hungary.
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
With language coaching, I support clients to overcome any obstacles they encounter when learning a foreign language. I help them get rid of their limiting beliefs, become self-confident, and apply learning techniques that suit their individuality the best. I also help them prepare for foreign language challenges like giving presentations in English. During career coaching I support people to uncover the career they want, make a transition to a new career and prepare for successful job interviews. With my unique program, I also train and mentor teachers of foreign languages from all over Hungary to become instructors using a coaching mindset. All these fields of my career activities are driven by a solution-focused coaching attitude.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
The key to my coaching success is my continuous self-development and openness to discovering and experimenting with new coaching tools and techniques. I have been developing and applying numerous self-made coaching tools and activities to help my coachees reach their goals with outstanding outcomes. It is my mission to popularize language coaching and get more and more people acquainted with it in the foreign language classroom and in the corporate environment as well.
