Carrie Mckinnon

Carrie is a linguist and entrepreneur specialized in business communication training, program direction, and content creation in ESL. Her professional experience has taken her from The United States to Europe, Africa, and back to North America. Carrie is an advocate for language coaching and has designed and deployed soft skills and teacher training programs funded by the U.S. Department of State and USAID. Carrie's educational background is in applied linguistics and global higher education (B.S., M.S.Ed). Her passion for the lessons and programs she creates to help language learners with their goals has led her to the study and development of language coaching tools and techniques that can be applied in a language and soft skills training setting. Carrie is a mindful skills acquisition specialist and international speaker as well as the co-founder of The International Language Coaching Association, an organization dedicated to spreading the global practice of language coaching.