Bringing clarity and empathy to communication in culturally diverse teams
Kathryn Alevizos
Zanne Gaynor
Kathryn has lived and worked in France and Greece. On returning to the UK, she taught business English to companies including BMW and Schlumberger as well as teaching general English in universities and private language schools. She also spent several years teaching refugees and asylum seekers in colleges of further education.
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Kathryn has worked as a teacher trainer on CELTA courses and is a published author with Pearson. She is a consultant for Cambridge Assessment and has chaired and written for various international exams.
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She now lives in Gloucestershire with her Greek husband and two children. Having a second language in her family has given her an added insight into the challenges of international communication.
Zanne has taught business English in companies such as Gillette, Banco Hipotecario and Nike in Spain as well as general English in schools in Germany and the UK. She has also been a translator for an international photographic company.
Between 2003 and 2006, Zanne set up and ran her own government accredited language school in the Balearic Islands. Her books have been published by Pearson, Macmillan and Richmond and she has written English language exams for Trinity.
Zanne now lives in Oxfordshire where she has recently worked as a volunteer with asylum seekers. In June 2019, she graduated from Oxford Brookes with a post-graduate award in Education (TESOL). Zanne speaks French, German and Spanish.