Joann

Profession: Corporate Instructor: Business English and English skills
English Language Instruction
For American companies based outside the US: Abbott, Bayer, Intel, PwC, Steris, Wunderman Thompson, etc.

Operations and Learning Consultant - World Bank (Washington, DC, USA)
Operations
Operations, Training, Facilitation, Change Management

International Association Manager and Board Liaison (Alexandria, Virginia, USA)
Management
Managed an international association of 32 regional and country leadership and 10,000 members.

Interests: I was born in Malaysia (a former British colony), where I grew up speaking English as my first language. I then lived in the U.S. for 20 years. I moved to Costa Rica to get certified in Spanish shortly before the pandemic, and I am still here. I plan to return to the U.S. in the future. My educational background includes business and cognitive neuroscience in education.

Interests: Business, psychology, linguistics/languages, art, oil painting, musical instruments, food, documentaries, nature, geography, science, history, culture, sociology, anthropology, dance.

Education: Master of Education - Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
Education
Human Development, Cognitive Neuroscience

Project Management Certificate - Georgetown University (Washington, DC, USA)
Non-profit
Project Management

Bachelor of Business Administration - University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma, USA)
Logistics
International Business & Marketing

Spoken Languages: English (Native), Spanish (Fluent), Malay (Fluent), French (Basic)

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