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Extraordinary executive coaches and extraordinary language coaches
Online business leadership resources and online cross-cultural resources

Translators, translation resources and localisation agencies
Online dictionaries and general information resources and writing services

Central London universities and Further Education colleges
Language learning worldwide and other education directories
Online language learning resources and online academic English resources

Extraordinary executive coaches

Paul Gillespie, Partner at Good Values
Consultant, strategist and CEO mentor in Corporate Social Responsibility, NGO strategy and marketing, and Corporate-NGO bridge-building

Brownstone Executive Coaching
Barbara Phillips, NLP practitioner and coach specialising in high-achieving, high-powered women

Start Your Executive Coaching Practice
Start your own life coaching, business coaching, or executive coaching practice.

Christine Nancarrow, Therapist
Qualified and specialised professional in CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and a range of other integrated practices, to treat anxieties, dysfunction, grief, phobias, depression and other disorders, with psychotherapy based in using imagery, self-instruction, and related integrated techniques to alter distorted attitudes and perceptions

Nadina Al-Jarrah, Intercultural Therapy
An intercultural approach to Psychotherapy and Counselling which recognises that belonging, identity, social background and culture are at the forefront of our experience

Online relaxation and stress management advice

Time Management - Improve time management skills and practices. Learn time management principles to get organized, increase your productivity, and make better use of your time.

Liz McKechnie
Coach in creativity and innovation, personal impact and presentation skills, with a wealth of experience in designing and delivering courses in developing actors, using a range of vocal and physical techniques

Felix Callens
Trainer in transactional analysis

Rasheed Ogunlaru, Life coach & speaker
To identify, action and achieve life, career, business or relationship goals. Clients include entrepeneurs, performers, healers, teachers and professionals

Extraordinary language coaches

Tony Corballis is the Language Coach for Leaders

Dora Lafkas, Australian-based language training consultant
Dora Lakfas MA (TESOL), Cert TEFLA, Grad Dip Ed, BA is a professional with an astonishing track record as a language coach and consultant in training. Tony and Dora collaborate on:
• solutions brainstorming and sharing best practice in curriculum development
• joint project development and collaborative publishing
• referrals and professional cooperation

Cher di Boscio
Language support for psychology and the social sciences; academic tutor to A Level and GCSE learners; and published travel writer

Neil Robbie, teacher trainer and developer
Neil leads a team at possibly the world's oldest and most prestigious academic English provision, IFCELS at SOAS, University of London.

Rehan Kularatne
Conversation on the history of language, culture and the arts - based in the heart of London's West End

Matt Murphy is The English Language Coach for Footballers.

If you feel you are an extraordinary language coach with a specialisation in a certain niche, then please contact me and let me know whether and why your link should be included here.

Online leadership resources

Cooperative Resources International Coping with organisational change

Traditional leadership

Leadership theory

Transactional & transformational 1

Transactional & transformational 2

New managers becoming leaders

Non-profit organisation leadership

Leadership coaching for non-profits

Leader success

Sports leadership models

Leadership characteristics 1

Leadership characteristics 2

Leadership characteristics 3

Leadership characteristics 4

Leadership characteristics 5

Classical models of leadership

Online cross-cultural information

Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions The sometimes criticized but universally-referenced guru of cross-cultural awareness, Hofstede provides on his site useful systems for measuring and analysing cultural and country differences.

Culture applied to companies Schein is a great figure in applying anthropology and cross-cultural study to organisations. This article is particularly focussed on leadership.

The many dimensions of culture, by Triandis. Triandis is a major thinker in cross-cultural psychology.

Business and Human Rights Resource Centre

China and Chinese Business Ettiquette

Cross-cultural information on Japan

Anecdotal information on Japanese etiquette

Visiting Japan: essential information

Spanish cross-cultural and expatriate information Spanish cultural information for expatriates and visitors to the Costa Blanca

Conflict resolution and cross-cultural communication Educational programs: conflict resolution, restorative justice, employment skills for youth & cross cultural communication and mediation

Cross-cultural awareness through volunteering Links to international volunteer programmes around the world to learn cross-cultural empathy. One such organisation Cross-cultural Solutions sends you to Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Peru, Russia, Tanzania or Thailand.

Cross-Cultural Understanding: The American Ghost Aspects of non-verbal communication have codes or signals that have to be deciphered because they point to hidden systems of cultural belief and have ideological significance. Monica Rector focuses on non-verbal aspects of behaviour, 'transforming into words some “ghosts” of the American culture'.

Cross-culture and website communication A cross-cultural analysis of websites from high-context cultures and low-context cultures, by Elizabeth Wurtz

Promoting cross-cultural news and information Multimedia international broadcasting service

Race relations links

If you would like to add your webpage containing cross-cultural information to this list of links, please contact me.

Translation services

Use Systran to translate a block of text

Translators' Cafe

translatorsbase.com

Simultaneous Interpretation - ABPT provides both the interpreters, and the electronic equipment necessary to ensure effective and seamless simultaneous interpretation.

Chinese-English Translation

English to French freelance translator

german-english-translator.com

English to German Translator

German Translations
Professional Translation Services Agency - Translation services by native speaker translators in different languages at reasonable prices

Russian Translation USA
Professional translation services between Russian and English - includes technical translations and business/personal correspondence

Language Interface Inc
Provider of English-Russian translation solutions: translations, interpreting, dual-language databases, computer-based and Web-based training

Lingo24
A wide range of high quality translation services between all major world languages: Lingo24 has a global blue chip client list

Spanish Translations - Translation Agency
Translation agency in USA. Translate Spanish to any language! Website and software localization

Strictly Spanish Translation Services
Provides quality English to Spanish translations, proofreading, editing and website translation

Translation Service Spanish
Translation services company offering high quality Spanish translation services at an affordable price:
Spanish translation into a wide range of languages

English To Portugese Translator
BB Portugese has a team of professional translators who provide quality English to Portuguese translation services to virtually every industry segment.

Translation Agency
New Zealand Translation Company - Translation Services - Translation Agency - New Lingo

Language Translation Services
At 7 Brands, we are proud to offer you translation services for languages currently used in more than 250 countries.

Free Translation

Regional localization agencies

elocalize.com
Arabic localization: translation, DTP, web content, help compilation and testing

Online dictionaries

Cambridge Dictionary Online

Webster's Online Dictionary

Wiktionary
A democratically-produced dictionary of definitions and translations

A dictionary of British slang and colloquialisms

CobuildDirect Corpus Sampler
A concordancer that can search for collocations (words that typically go together).

British National Corpus Concordancer
Provides examples of a chosen word or phrase from the British National Corpus, giving the whole sentence and where the word is in that sentence.

Hong Kong University VLC Web Concordancer

The History of English

International English from a British perspective

iTools Language Tools
Word finding tools and dictionaries of many types

Your.Dictionary.com
Specialist subject and language dictionaries

The BBC's pages on accents

Interpret Internet and mobile slang at Noslang.com

Translate British slang into American English

A comprehensive directory of bilingual & multilingual dictionaries

Spanish dictionary

Authoritative Spanish Dictionary of the Real Academia Espanola

Translation corpus based on parallel Portuguese and English texts

General information resources

Find Articles An amazing resource to locate articles which are often not found googling

Business Books Review Each year BBR summarizes and reviews only the very best business books.

Xrefer is a provider of reference services for libraries and information centres with access to dictionaries, encylopaedias and such.

Bartleby is an incredible and unlimited gateway to books online, free of charge.

Writing services

Case study writer Learn how to write a white paper and case study. The white paper, case study & technology writer guy is Gordon Graham, an award winning writer with 25 years in technology. He can help you build your white papers on facts, not fluff.

Tony Corballis Editing, proofreading, writing and copywriting services

Richard Woulfe is a writer and dramatist, whose plays have been produced in London on both stage and radio. He is also a theatre reviewer for uktheatre.net
See extracts, synopsis & cast list of his latest play, "The Value of Words", a fictitious account of conversations between Ben Jonson (the playwright) and Sir Robert Cecil (James I's Secretary of State).

Central London universities

(where Tony Corballis has recently or currently teaches, coaches, trains or writes courses)

School of Oriental and African Studies, at the University of London

Middlesex University

Kings College London, at the University of London

London Metropolitan University

University of the Arts

Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations

London Further Education colleges

Westminster Kingsway College: located very centrally

The College of North West London: excellent and committed teachers - Tony Corballis has worked here and witnessed a dedicated and high quality provision.

The College of North East London

Southwark College: excellent language preparation for overseas medical professionals - Tony Corballis used to manage this and othher departments at Southwark College.

Lewisham College

City and Islington College

Lambeth College

Hammersmith and West London College

Recommended private colleges

International House London

Private Tutors London A professional private tuition agency based in the London area with well experienced, qualified and highly educated tutors.

Online general English resources

Ted Power is the ELT man with resources on just about everything!

Listen to English is a great site for using podcasts (with scripts) to quickly improve your English.

Joe-Flo's Practice Cambridge Exams (Advanced level - also try Proficiency)

ACL: Australian Centre for Languages (Tony Corballis has developed content on this site)

Capital Community College: Grammar for advanced writing

UsingEnglish.com Useful learning materials

BBC World Service: Learning English

English Daily ESL resources for non-native English speakers

Real-English.com Free video-based interactive ESL

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab

Advanced grammar

English Learner

Daily Grammar

Dave's ESL Cafe

British Council listening exercises

English Study Direct

The English Club

Online English Grammar

English Listening Lounge

English as a Second language - Kenneth Beare

Grammar Safari at the Intensive English Institute, University of Illinois
This site encourages you to work out grammar rules for yourself!

Punctuation Made Simple. By Gary A. Olson

Online academic writing resources

University of Hertfordshire: English for Academic Purposes Impressive and comprehensive advice, materials and exercises by Andy Gillett at the University of Hertfordshire (recommended by Tony Corballis who met Andy at a BALEAP conference).

The Centre for English Language Teacher Education at the University of Warwick provides advice and exercises.

BALEAP is the British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes. It is a network of centres where EAP is taught within British Universities. BALEAP has links to useful resources including EAP website and journals.

Middlesex University: English Language and Learning Support for students in higher education Middlesex's very thorough academic English support is offered electronically on their 'Oasis' pages. Tony Corballis has written materials for both Oasis and for various Middlesex University courses.

The Australian Centre for Languages (ACL),which provides fast quality-assured pathways for international learners to enter the Australian university system. Tony Corballis has written extensive content for them, found in their curriculum suite at aclenglish.com

The Writing Lab & The OWL at Purdue (Purdue University) is a great online resource for academic English and is growing every day.

The Virtual Language Centre can help you develop your writing with a self-access guide.

Writing at the University of Toronto

Academic Writing Self-Access Page (from Central European University, Hungary) An interesting site. Links to guides on writing research papers, putting together literature reviews, writing position papers, preparing oral presentations etc.

The Columbia Guide to Online Style

Research Writing

University of Kansas: Research Papers

Turning an Academic Essay Into a Research Article: University of Toronto Health Sciences Writing Center

Penning The Past: Advice on Writing in the Historical Disciplines
Department of History, Brown University

Postgraduate Research in Law: University of Wollongong

Writing a Sociology Paper: Dartmouth Writing Program

Political Science: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

How to write a Literature Review: University of Queensland

Using Sources in your Writing: Colorado State University

Plagiarism: How to avoid it. Indiana University

Evaluating Information Found on the Internet. Johns Hopkins University

The Fundamentals of Critical Reading and Effective Writing. By Dan Kurland

Thesis Proposals: The difference between MA and PhD research. University of New South Wales