Your ticket includes:

• entry to every single event of the day, including talks, panel discussion, networking and our surprise live show
• 1-month access to the recording of the talks, the panel discussion, and the live show (the networking parts of the programme will not be recorded)
• a donation to Moorfields Eye Charity.

Introducing Our Speakers

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  Timea Kadar is a marketing strategist and has used personal brand building to support her and her clients’ marketing.

  She has 35-40 speaking gigs a year including the ones at the Digital Innovation Summit in Excel or the Travel Summit in the County Hall. 

  She organised a TEDx event, launched her radio show, was covered in publications like Forbes, published 4 books, and won marketing awards. She is the author of two books, Your Story and The USP is You.

  This hasn’t happened by chance, but following a practical blueprint that she will share in her talk.

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  The USP is You

  Build a strong personal brand as a language professional to help your marketing

  Language professionals often struggle with identifying their USP, ending up saying some vague statements.

  Above all, there’s one thing that makes you unique: your personality. The set of expertise, your methods, your background, and the experience you have. The USP is You!
  In her talk, Timea shares a practical guide on how to build a strong personal brand as a language professional. How to get into the press with your expertise, speak at events, publish a book. After the talk you’ll understand what to do to be known for what you know and get clients who don’t ask how you are different.

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  Joanne Ford is a Positive Mindset Mentor and Coach, whose mission is to support
  and guide others to develop their inner strength and become more resilient and
  assertive.
  
  Prior to setting up her own business, Promptus UK, Joanne worked as a trainer
  within the housing sector where she delivered core training subjects including
  Professional Boundaries, Resilience and Wellbeing and Mental Health Awareness.

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  Five Star Service But No Tip!
  Are you overdelivering and under-
  appreciated?

  It’s wonderful to have found your vocation in life. One that truly makes a difference. But do lay-people really understand what it takes to deliver the solutions that you, as language professionals, provide?
  
  What happens when pulling out all the stops to meet deadlines for your clients doesn’t seem to be enough or when your proposals are rejected because they are considered too expensive?
  A lack of appreciation of your specialist skills may lead to feelings of frustration, anxiety and self-doubt.
  
  If this sounds familiar, it may be time to revisit the importance of standing by your values and recognising your true worth.
  
  In this session Joanne will share some techniques to maintain resilience in times of challenge and hone assertiveness skills so that you receive the respect and appreciation you deserve without fear of rejection.

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  Julie Yoder is an experienced English language teacher and coach based in Washington, DC.
  Through her company, English With Purpose, she helps international professionals who are working for a better world communicate in English with confidence.
  
  She has worked in the language learning world since 1996 in a variety of roles teaching, training, and coaching, and, since 2007, she delivers customized one-to-one tutoring and coaching for international professionals. She is currently working on building a community for international professionals who work in English and offering holistic “Conversation Vacation” retreats in western Maryland in the U.S.

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  Put on your own oxygen mask first: the key to serving with integrity in your business
  How to maintain your energy and balance your needs with those of whom you serve

  Language professionals know that in order to deliver the best to our clients and learners, we ourselves have to be consistently present, energetic, and tuned in to others’ needs. But how do we maintain that energy and stay healthy when we serve others all day? This can be particularly challenging for professionals who are independently employed – the temptation to over-deliver to secure that client or take on projects that test your boundaries but bring in revenue is real. We all need income, after all. 

  Julie has been through burnout twice – first as a public school ESL teacher in the U.S. and the second time as a teacherpreneur striving to build up a sustainable business. These days she is finally thriving, and she wants to share the valuable lessons, strategies, and tools she learned along the way about healing, staying healthy, and setting appropriate boundaries so you can authentically shine with your clients and still have time and energy for yourself and the other parts of life. 

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  Bryn Bonino, Ed.D. has worked as a teacher, educational administrator, and marketing consultant in Italy and the U.S. for 15+ years. She’s eligible for Italian citizenship and thought it would be easier to apply if she lived in Italy. But the job offers that Bryn got to work in Italy were jaw-droppingly low. 

  Putting all of her work experience together, she decided to interview language educators who’ve found a way to successfully “make the leap” from teacher to entrepreneur.  After formally interviewing 30 independent language teachers and coaches, Bryn has found trends in what all of them found to be successful. 

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  Make A Leap: From Teacher To Entrepreneur
  Trends from 30+ interviews with language professionals

  How can you go from barely making it as a language teacher, to successfully make the leap as a language entrepreneur?  Bryn Bonino has interviewed 30+ independent language educators and coaches and she’ll tell you the trends that she found in her conversations.

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  Mark Ghannam is a Solutions Engineer at Labelbox, the leading training data platform to accelerate AI applications. Previously he was a data scientist and AI strategy consultant advising industry leaders and governments how to build their digital strategies and roll out their AI/data science platforms. In his most recent role, he is a key enabler to help data science teams and engineers build scalable AI solutions faster in all industries. 

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  AI and Languages
  How AI will change the linguistics space

  Mark Ghannam is looking forward to discussing the effect AI has on linguistics, from advanced AI translators to enhanced voice technologies that are changing our day to day lives. As an Arabic, Spanish, French and English speaker, this topic is very close to his heart.

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  Nathalie Danon is the award-winning director of The VICI Language Academy and VICI Languages France, two highly respected, elite language academies in England and France respectively. She also runs a corporate division, VICI Language Dynamics. 

  Nathalie passionately believes that success requires being open to continuous personal development and being willing to ask for help when needed, and so in addition to running her own language businesses provides personalised coaching and mentoring, drawing on her first-hand experience to help driven and energetic language professionals get the lift they need to make a success of their business. 

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  The power of people
  Why not networking is not an option – in business and in life

  So much in successful business boils down to your connections – your clients, your suppliers, your extended network of peers.  But when you’re juggling the many and various roles of a small business director, it’s so easy to allow getting out there and meeting people to slip to the bottom of the ‘to do’ list – especially when some professional networks carry an actual cost, and not just a time overhead.

  In this session Nathalie will dive into both the material and less tangible benefits of building a solid, reliable network, explaining why the short-term economy of skipping networking can actually have detrimental long-term effects, and why having a trusted tribe around you can be the difference between surviving and thriving – in both business and in your personal life!

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Who are the attendees?

Language teachers, coaches, trainers, tutors, translators, interpreters, transcreators, voice-over actors, voice coaches, language and speech therapists, language and translation consultants, researchers, subtitlers, proofreaders, editors, copywriters, journalists, forensic linguists, multilingual VAs, computer linguists, language entrepreneurs, and many other wonderful souls follow the initiative and join us each month.

We meet and learn from each other. We are inspired by talks and interviews with some brilliant minds. We ask for support, connect with each other and learn of new opportunities.

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Your ticket includes:

• entry to every single event of the day, including talks, panel discussion, networking and our surprise live show
• 1-month access to the recording of the talks, the panel discussion, and the live show (the networking parts of the programme will not be recorded)
• a donation to Moorfields Eye Charity.

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