Andy Hockley

Andy is a freelance educational management consultant and teacher trainer based in deepest Transylvania. After 11 years of teaching English worldwide, he completed an MA in International and Intercultural Management at the School for International Training in the US. Subsequently he worked as an educational project manager at SIT, including participating in the curriculum working party that developed the International Diploma in Language Teaching Management (IDLTM). He has been coordinating and training on the IDLTM since its inception in 2001. He is co-author of “From Teacher to Manager” (CUP, 2008) and author of “Educational Management” (Polirom, 2007). He regularly trains on ELT management courses and has a particular interest in organisational behaviour, managing teachers and project management.  He can be contacted at:adhockley@gmail.com

Marina González

Marina is a freelance educational consultant and teacher trainer in the areas of Management and Materials Design born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was promoted to coordination positions in every job she took in her younger years and when she joined the Centro Universitario de Idiomas, a large extension programme related to the University of Buenos Aires, she coordinated aroudn 120 teachers working with around 10,000 students. She learnt management the hard way, after changing jobs and becoming DoS at a similar program, she specialized in Management theory, and started teaching ELTManagement at the B.A. program for language teacehrs at Universidad CAECE. She also provides academic consultancy to important publishing companies in the Southern Cone and gives advice on implementation of materials at the organisational level. She can be contacted at: minushki@yahoo.com