Who are we?

We are a team of four ELT professionals with extensive experience in the field. As you will see in our individual profiles below, our expertise covers a number of key areas, including EL trainer training, teacher training, consultancy on ELT projects and ELT management.

Sue Leather

Sue Leather is a consultant and trainer with extensive experience of learning programme development and capacity building projects in transitional and challenging contexts.

Sue's experience covers Central and South Asia, Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, North Africa, North and South America. With a Masters in Education and as a certified practitioner of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Sue's passion is for enabling individuals and teams to realize their full potential. She has over 25 years international experience in language education, having developed and run exciting and innovative learning programmes for a wide range of clients internationally. Sue is also an expert presenter and facilitator of meetings, seminars and workshops. She has extensive ELT writing experience and a great interest in teaching and training materials development. Sue is an associate of the Institute of Education, University of London. She is a fluent Spanish speaker.

sue@sueleatherassociates.com

Sue's CV

Simon Smith

Simon Smith is a consultant and trainer with substantial experience of implementing and managing teacher education projects in transitional educational systems.

Simon has lived and worked in Africa, Asia and East and Central Europe. He has a Masters in Teaching English as a Second and Foreign Language, and his consuming interest is in trainer training and in supporting teachers of children in the primary sector. He has considerable experience of producing distance learning materials for teacher development, and of mentoring programmes for trainers. He is a frequent speaker at national and international teacher education conferences.

Simon is a mentor and teaching fellow on the University of York's distance MA in Teaching English to Young Learners and a Chief Moderator for the University of Cambridge Examination Board's In-Service Certificate in English Language Teaching (ICELT). He is a fluent Dutch speaker, and has a working knowledge of Czech and Chinese.

simon@sueleatherassociates.com

Simon's CV

Radmila Popovic

Radmila Popovic is a trainer and consultant with considerable experience of designing and implementing innovative education projects.

Having lived and studied both in her native country (PhD in Applied Linguistics, University of Belgrade) and the USA (MAT from the School for International Training, Brattleboro, VT), Radmila is primarily interested in effective ways of drawing on the knowledge and experience of 'foreign' and 'local' experts to effect educational change. She has co-designed and taught new PreSETT, mentor and teacher training courses in Serbia. She also has extensive experience in acting as a mediator between different stakeholders (Ministry of Education, University, Teachers' Associations) in foreign aid projects. She has presented at a number of national and international conferences and she was a plenary speaker at IATEFL Conference, 2008.

Radmila is an ELT Methodology Lecturer at the University of Belgrade and a consultant for a British Council-funded Young Learners teacher training project. She is a fluent speaker of Russian and has a working knowledge of French.

radmila@sueleatherassociates.com

Radmila's CV

Andy Hockley

Andy Hockley is a consultant and trainer with considerable experience of implementing, managing, and consulting on large and small-scale educational projects in a number of different contexts.

Andy has lived and worked in Europe, Asia, Oceania, and North America. He has a Master's degree in International and Intercultural Management as well as extensive experience of language teaching and training language teachers. His particular interest is in the management of language schools and in the management of educational projects. He is co-author of "From Teacher to Manager: Managing a Language Teaching Organization" (CUP, 2008) and author of "Educational Management" (Polirom, Romania 2007). He regularly makes presentations and runs workshops at international teacher conferences.

Andy is now based in Romania, and among other things is a trainer on Cambridge ESOL's International Diploma in Language Teaching Management (a blended learning course for managers which he was instrumental in developing). He speaks Spanish, and has a working knowledge of Portuguese, French, and Hungarian.

andy@sueleatherassociates.com

Andy's CV