Born and raised near Dublin, Ireland, I have been working as a freelance Business English trainer since 2009. Since 2016 I have worked in a freelance capacity for Cornelsen Verlag GmbH as an author and proof reader.

Since 2016, I have been very pleased to author the practice element of the grammar appendix of Cornelsen’s schoolbooks for Gymnasium students, Access 6 (Federal edition), Access 1-3 (G9 Edition, for example, for North Rhine Westphalia). I have also helped revise and update the accompanying workbooks for this range. In 2019, I, along with two other authors, wrote a new edition of the Cornelsen textbook, Focus on Business (Fifth edition), which is aimed at students of Business and Vocational colleges. In the same year I also authored the interactive online element of Focus on Vocabulary (3rd Edition). In 2017, I wrote a large amount of material for Cornelsen’s smartphone app ‘Clevery‘ which aims to help German Abitur students prepare for their English examinations.

Among the Cornelsen titles I assisted with in proofing were:
Electricity Matters, IT Matters, Business English for Beginners (Teacher’s Guide), 2 titles for the Wirtschaftsgymnasium Baden Württemberg, Focus on Modern Business.

Among the Business English workshops I planned and delivered alone were a series of 6 day-long workshops for senior civil servants in one of Germany’s state governments in 2016 and a 2-day workshop for real estate professionals in 2017.

My teaching is made richer by having lived and worked in three countries – Ireland, France and Germany and by having worked in social work and in the Information Technology sector. By being a student of other languages and also by having worked in multicultural environments I know better the challenges students of English face in their day-to-day and working lives. I aim to provide training which is ‘seriously fun’ and am very much influenced by a task-based learning approach.