Who We Are
Springboards Language Training and Consulting, LLC is a professional communications firm partnering with high talent internationals to achieve career success. Our blended approach of English language training, business communications coaching, and cross-cultural competency development leaves no challenge unmet. Through the training, we enable our clients to:
- Achieve career advancement goals
- Project a stronger, more confident self image
- Take on key speaking and writing engagements
- Network more comfortably internally and externally
- Successfully transition from academia to corporate America
- Develop critical self awareness skills around personal presentation and interpersonal communication
- Strengthen professional image to hiring managers, recruiters, and internship placement coordinators
- Identify personal branding as a key ingredient in early stage career planning
About Our Name
Our company name, Springboards, is based on the action word, “to springboard”, which means: “to impel” or “to provide the impetus for.” We believe this name reflects both our motto and the values contained in our mission statement. It accomplishes this by:
- Propelling clients into career advancement and opportunity
- Using the in situ training model as a type of springboard for drawing out client strengths and development opportunities
- Allowing us, as a company, to springboard our corporate mission into action through serving our clients
The Springboards Training Team
Springboards’ professional trainers are united by passion, creativity, and lifelong dedication to the field. It’s in this variety and commitment that we are able to find the right trainer for any individual or situation.
Nadia Nassif, Principal and Principal Trainer
Nadia has dealt passionately with language training and language learning her entire academic and professional career. She received her first degree in Applied Linguistics from Boston University and took up several years’ study of French and Japanese. She has been teaching English as a Second Language and business communications coaching to internationals for nearly a decade in both Japan and the U.S. Though Nadia’s ability with foreign languages and understanding of the language process has made substantial contributions to her classroom success, it is clearly her enthusiasm, vision, and drive for a client-focused, fruitful training that distinguishes her from other schools and instructors. In addition to training her clients and running Springboards, Nadia will be receiving her Masters in Business Administration at UMASS Boston, where she is updating her skills and knowledge to reflect the real concerns her clients face today.
Scott Sminkey, Associate Trainer
Scott has one of the most eclectic backgrounds and skill sets to offer international clients in need of business communications coaching and English language training. With a career of nearly 30 years of IT under his belt, Teaching of English as a Foreign Language certification, and wide-ranging exposure to Boston’s foreign-born business clientele, Scott has identified what makes his teaching a robust and unique experience for all his clients. His passion for learning languages and his dedication drive him to target his client's instruction for efficient learning. In addition, his IT background has given him the upper edge in online learning applications. His mastery and facilitation of web-based educational tools is an enormous asset to the broadening distance learning environment.
Diana Lynch, Associate Trainer
Diana is an ESL (English as a Second Language) instructor with a TEFL certificate and a Masters of Arts in Educational Studies from Tufts University. Recognizing her passion for foreign languages and language acquisition early in her career, she directed her studies toward a more linguistic focus, concentrating on language and culture, first and second language acquisition, and human cognitive development. She has since worked within the ESL community for the past seven years with many clients of diverse backgrounds and situations, from newly arrived internationals and workplace English immigrant populations to foreign-born professionals and high-level executives. Diana has tremendous scope in the types of clients she is able to work with and approaches her teaching with a very unique touch, tailored to each individual or group she instructs.
Sandra Lorimer-Jonas
Sandra spent several years training in Japan, where her experience of “being a foreigner” has helped her gain insight into the diverse needs and concerns of foreign-born professionals. Having worked with executives in Tokyo, Sandra’s zeal for intercultural and business communications was ignited into her present life’s work. She now coaches clients from a variety of backgrounds and understands that each client is unique. She believes that understanding a client’s cultural background is imperative in helping the client reach their goals. She has a post-graduate diploma in Teaching English as a Second Language and is completing her Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics and TESOL from Leicester University. Her areas of specialization include accent reduction, inter-cultural communication, and professional writing. She meets each client with sensitivity, motivation and a firm conviction that with hard work, all goals are achievable.
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