Maria's testimonial
"I recently completed the BGLC Language and Communication Coaching course and it exceeded all my expectations."
Maria Tinel
English teacher, Switzerland
Jaume's testimonial
"The quality of Barnaby’s work has been a key element in my achieving successful results and fulfilling my personal learning objectives."
Dr. Jaume Hugas
Professor, ESADE Business School
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About the Founder
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25+
Years of experience
250+
University professors and business professionals coached
300+
Language teachers trained
500+
Translated/Revised articles published
Taking communication to the next level
Barnaby Griffiths is an English language and communication coach and teacher trainer with extensive international experience serving both the academic and business communities. He's fluent in Spanish and Catalan and also speaks German. After completing university in the UK, where he was born and raised, he travelled the world teaching English and living in different Western and Eastern countries. He also worked in Public Relations for one of the world's top car manufacturers in Germany. During his professional career, he has trained comprehensively in professional development and coaching. He has tutored trainee teachers on the TESOL Diploma and Cert courses for over 20 years and has provided hundreds of learners with tools and strategies to maximize their potential as communicators in English.
The PROOF Method™
Barnaby's innovative PROOF Method™ of Language and Communication Coaching evolved out of his passion for understanding the nuances of cross-cultural communication in English and his eagerness to help learners find a middle ground of mutual understanding where other methods have failed. His twenty plus years’ experience of training learners to communicate for success and consulting on academic texts for publication in international indexed journals have shaped Barnaby’s conviction that precise communication is essential to creating a better world.
"Effective Communication Coaching requires targeted performance, analytical feedback and meaningful rehearsal. The PROOF method™ delivers this.”
~Barnaby Griffiths
Success Stories
I have worked with Barney for over 20 years and highly recommend his services as a language teacher trainer and communication coach. In his capacity as the former he has observed and trained a large number of our trainees and teachers to the highest level, always receiving outstanding feedback for his approach. As well as knowing how to communicate content in a unique way, he has the ability to inspire real and lasting change in his trainees.
Duncan Foord
Director
Oxford TEFL
Barney Griffiths has been my English coach and academic article translator for many years, and I am happy to acknowledge that he has contributed greatly to my achievements in the form of academic articles published in journals of the highest rank in the JCR and Scopus and also in my English classes at the Bachelor’s and Master’s level in the Faculty of Tourism at the University of Girona and other European Universities (Matej Bel in Slovakia, Savonia in Finland, Jagellonski in Poland and Ravensburg in Germany). I would emphasize that none of the academic journals that I have sent articles to with his translation from Catalan into academic English have ever queried the language. And as a coach who has helped me develop my skills in order to teach my classes in English, he has always found the right words to give me confidence, while offering me guidelines to improve my communication, also autonomously.
Lluís Mundet i Cerdan
Professor of Tourism
University of Girona
Working several years with Barney has helped me to improve my English for teaching. His coaching sessions include criteria to practice self-assessment. I have no doubt that the quality of his work as a coach has been a key element in my achieving successful results and fulfilling my personal learning objectives. I fully recommend working with Barney to improve your academic English.
Jaume Hugas
Professor of Operations, Information Systems and Data Sciences
ESADE Business School
Barney was one of my trainers and assessors during the teaching practice element of my Trinity DipTESOL. His feedback on my lessons was consistently pertinent and very clear and direct - he helped me to see what to change and why and helped me work out how to do it. This is exactly what I - and most trainees - need when wanting to improve specific areas of their teaching in a short space of time.
Juliet Coria
English Language Tutor
University of Liverpool International College
ge Tutor
University of Liverpool International College
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"I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other." ~Bill Gates