Training

Management and intercultural Training

  • Custom-made courses for adult learners 
  • Pre-departure intercultural training
  • Online and offline undergraduate and post-graduate teaching
  • undergraduate and post-graduate learner support, course design and examination design,
  • Market consultancy and workshops for board-level management 
  • Topics: Public sector management, business and society in the MENA region, business and society in Germany, Austria and Switzerland)
Linguistic Training & Course Design

• language courses for groups of adults • language courses for university students • Business language courses for groups • individual tuition for adult learners (one-on-one)

Institutions and audience:

Over the years, I have provided language training for a variety of institutions, including universities, NGOs, private enterprises outside the education sector, cultural institutes, and private language schools listed below. Do you have questions, or would you like to book training unit or order specific training products? Please get in touch.

Past Clientele

Universities:

  • Ritsumeikan University, Japan (Kyoto and Kusatsu Campuses, part-time lecturer, 1999-2003)
  • Kansai University, Japan (Osaka, part-time lecturer, 2000-2003)
  • Queen Mary University of London (London, UK, adjunct lecturer for business German, (2007-2010))
  • SOAS University of London (ongoing, since 2009)
  • Philipps-Universität Marburg (Summer schools on the economies and societies of the MENA region, 2015 to 2017)
  • Zayed University, UAE (Abu Dhabi Campus, Director of the German Center, 2013)
  • Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (Dublin, Assistant Professor at the Department of Germanic Studies, 2014-2017)

Cultural Institutes:

  • Goethe-Institute (Kyoto, 2001-2003)

Private Language Schools:

  • Nova, Japan (Ochanoma Ryugaku, Shinsaibashi, Osaka, 1998-2001)
  • Cactus Language Training, UK (London, 2008-2010)
  • Communicaid, UK (London, 2008-2010)
  • Graybridge Malkam (Ottawa, cultural and language training for Canadian diplomats, 2020/21)

Qualifications

  • MA-level training in general linguistics (1997) 

  • Goethe-Institut Distance Learning Certificate (2002) 

  • TESOL Course (Vancouver, 6/2018)