Ron Pfeil

Ron’s career as a teacher, skills trainer and intercultural communication specialist spans over 20 years, from Asia to Barcelona. He’d been working at ESADE for 10+ years before creating the ELASTiC project, a team of Executive, Linguistic, and Academic Skills Training consultants that intends to be a transformative force in education. With an M.A. in Foreign Affairs, he has written varied skills courses such as Leading a Multicultural Team and Pronunciation for Professionals.

Hardworking, patient, and well-aware of the need for humour in nearly every cross-cultural situation, Ron uses these qualities to help students bring out the best in themselves to succeed. Regarding his work at ELASTiC, he is committed to the idea of doing well (for ELASTiC) by doing good (for their customers and community). Through his company, he has worked with large companies such as Mediapro, Swarovski and Airbnb.

Education

• Master of Arts (MA) University of Virginia (1988 — 1990)
• Licentiate Diploma in TESOL (equivalent to DELTA) Trinity College London (Barcelona campus) (1998 — 1999)
• Master of Arts (MA) Hampden-Sydney College (1984 — 1988)

Companies

• Co-Founder, professional skills training co-op ELASTiC Professional & Academic Skills Training (2014)
• Professor ESADE (2000 — 2013)
• Skills Trainer, PDC British Council (2006 — 2009)
• ESL Teacher, Skills Trainer, Teacher-trainer British Council (2004 — 2006)
• Translator and corrector ESADE Business & Law School (2001 — 2004)
• Free-lance translator Nova Jika Coordination and Translation (1998 — 2004)
• Instructor of ESP UNICA (International University of Catalunya) (2002 — 2003)
• Head Foreign Teacher Osaka Sangyo University (1992 — 1998)
• Instructor of English/ESL Ritsumeikan University (1995 — 1998)