The Director's coaching and teaching story began in Germany in 1989. She decided that year to move to Germany primarily for the adventure. It proved to be a life-changing and career-changing adventure. She didn’t know anyone there or have a place to live or a job, but packed clothes for four seasons, made a hotel reservation for one night, and bought a one-way ticket to Heidelberg.

She knew almost no German, but with perseverance, eventually managed to find a job and get both a residence and work permit, and found a language school in Mannheim teaching English to German businessmen and businesswomen.

With a degree in education and experience teaching business English to American adults, she found it was a little more challenging to teach English as a Second Language. Nevertheless, the German students were complimentary and grateful for everything.

After spending 10 months in Germany, she returned to Atlanta and immediately enrolled in the Applied Linguistics program at Georgia State University for the Teaching of English as a Second Language. These studies were interrupted by another 9-month trip back to Germany and a return to the same language school in Mannheim.

Within a year of returning the second time to Atlanta and completing a Master’s, she decided to do something different from what she saw other English institutions doing and established her own language school, which was later accredited to accept students on F-1 student visas. The school was in operation for 17 years in the Atlanta area, admitting students over the years from more than 100 different countries.

Following this she taught in the intensive English program at Indiana University South Bend for about one year, then in the Intensive English Program at the University of Georgia io Athens. In 2015, while still in Athens, she founded an on-site language training business called Business Communication for Internationals-USA (d/b/a BCI-USA), which is currently running. This business conducts corporate language training at the business location, works with private students, and occasionally runs a group class.

In 2023, she joined the English Language Program at Kennesaw State University as a part-time instructor, where she continues to work.