Rachel Paling Rachel Paling is the creator of the approach and method for language teaching called Neurolanguage Coaching® and also one of the co-founders of the NeuroHeart Education Foundation, aimed at bringing coaching, neuroscience and emotional intelligence into schools and more readily available for teachers worldwide. Their mission is to really impact, enhance and transform learning. In 2012 you crystallised the concept called Neurolanguage coaching for language learning, how did you reach that point? Over the last 20 years, it has become really clear that languages in business are essential. Businesses have increasingly broken out beyond borders into the globalised market and even the smallest of provincial companies now understand the importance of speaking languages. However, language excellence signifies embracing cultural differences, diversity and inclusion par excellence and a deeper, more meaningful degree of communication and comprehension among employees, management and clients/customers. From 2003 onwards I was fulltime training and developing professionals and university students in English and Spanish. In those years, I embarked on further personal development as a life coach plus learning about neuroscience, emotional intelligence and psychology and how these connect into language learning. All of these helped me greatly to shape and transform the way I was working with my clients as a “language coach”. The greatest challenge was always helping companies see that this development was not just lip service saying “I am a coach”, but actually showing the professional training behind this 55 Bringing Coaching, Neuroscience & Emotional Intelligence Together EXECUTIVE COACHING www.ceotodaymagazine.com
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