Eaquals Training for Excellence, 22 – 23 November – Krakow

Alec Pearson

Alec Pearson | Alec has over 25 years commercial experience, across a wide number of sectors including manufacturing and law in both London and Edinburgh. Having developed a proven track record as a senior manager, which included leading and managing successful teams and developing coherent and sustainable strategic objectives, Alec founded Pearson Communication, an ILM Approved Centre in 2012, after graduating with a MBA from the University of Glasgow, Adam Smith Business School. Alec teaches ILM leadership, management and professional skills programmes to students at The University of Glasgow.

Justin Quinn

Eaquals Chair

Justin Quinn is the Chair of Eaquals and the CEO of Centre of English Studies.
CES has schools in the UK, Ireland, Taiwan and Canada.

Liam Brown

Liam is a teacher, manager, trainer, writer, course developer and consultant focusing on business and management skills inELT.
Liam was Learning and Development Manager for the British Council’s worldwide English and Exams Strategic Business Unit.
He now works independently with ELT and education institutions around the world for training design and delivery and consultancy interventions.

Lou McLaughlin

Executive Director, Eaquals

Lou is the Executive Director of Eaquals. She was one of the founding members of ELT Ireland, and served on the IATEFL Board of Trustees as the Associates Representative until 2021. Lou holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics, Masters in ELT, DELTA, TESOL Cert. in Leadership & Management and Trinity TESOL Cert. Her special interests are Young Learner teacher training, teacher cognition and management in ELT and she was the co-editor of Children Learning English: From Research to Practice (2015).

Ludka Kotarska

Ludka Kotarska was the Director of Eaquals Accreditation and Consultancy between 2016 – 2022. She was responsible for the management of Eaquals accreditation services, the development of the Inspection Scheme and for advising and supporting language centres that apply to become accredited members of Eaquals.      

Peter Brown

Peter Brown is a teacher and the Founder Chair of Eaquals. He is the co-founder of AISLi, the Italian quality association of language schools, and co-wrote the Council of Europe’s Guide to Quality in Language Education with Frank Heyworth.

Philippe Taza

As the CEO of Higher Education Marketing, Philippe provides digital marketing solutions in over 14 different languages for a number of language schools across the globe. His company’s specialised services include SEO, paid advertising campaigns, content development, social media marketing, analytics management, CRM technology, and more.

Thom Kiddle & Peter Brown

Thom Kiddle | Thom Kiddle is Director of Norwich Institute for Language Education (NILE) responsible for strategic and organisational management, and training and consultancy in a range of areas including testing and assessment, learning technologies, materials development and language teaching methodology. He has a Master’s degree in Language Testing from Lancaster University and the Cambridge Delta. Thom is also treasurer and founding director of AQUEDUTO – the Association for Quality Education and Training Online; webmaster for the Testing, Evaluation and Assessment Special Interest Group of IATEFL; and Vice Chair of the Eaquals Board of Trustees.

Peter Brown | Peter Brown considers himself primarily to be a teacher. He is the Founder Chair of EAQUALS and has been on its Board since its inception in Trieste in 1991. He is also the Founder Chair of AISLi (l’Assocazione Italiana di Scuole di Lingua) the Italian quality association of language schools, which he co-founded in 1979. With Frank Heyworth he wrote the Council of Europe’s Guide to Quality in Language Education. Apart from being a frequent speaker at conferences on a wide range of humanistic and scientific topics, he is also an educational and scientific consultant to international inter-governmental organisations.

Varinder Unlu

Varinder has worked in ELT for 26 years in all contexts from private language schools to FE and HE, teaching students of all ages.  She has been a DOS/Academic Manager since 2002.  She works as a Principal at Speak Up London.  She is also a teacher trainer for both Cambridge CELTA and Trinity TESOL, a materials writer and an experienced conference speaker and was the co-founder and coordinator of the Inclusive Practices and SENs IATEFL SIG and is now coordinator of IATEFL’s Global Issues SIG.