International Language Coaching Association
Empowering
Language Professionals
Supporting Your Journey
Are you a language coach looking to support language learners?
We train, advocate for, and bring language coaches together to strive for excellence in general language coaching, corporate and communication coaching, and core coaching principles.
How We Help
Equipping Language Professionals For Success
Our Community
Building Language Coaching Confidence
ILCA is dedicated to empowering language coaches to enhance their coaching skills. We strive to enable you to further grow and excellence in your language coaching career.
Focus on your goals
Support network
Training and advocacy
Non-competitive environment
Are You A Language Coach?
Are your language coaching efforts as effective as they could be? Gain confidence in your coaching skills when you get access to our exclusive ILCA language coaching standards guide.
Let's Go Further
ILCA is rewriting the traditional language coaching approach through our training program that combines theory and practical application.
Understanding Key Concepts
Providing a comprehensive understanding of key concepts, ensuring that you leave with the knowledge and skills to excel in your coaching practice.
Ability To Differentiate
Empowering you with the ability to differentiate between teaching, personalized training, and coaching, to effectively support learners on their language learning journey.
Framework & Ideas
Equipping you with a framework and practical ideas to support autonomous learners in the classroom, empowering you to help learners take charge of their language learning.
Meet ILCA
Our Co-Founders
Driven by their dedication to spreading the global practice of language coaching.
Carrie McKinnon
Co-Founder
Carrie McKinnon is a linguist and entrepreneur specializing in business communication training, program direction, and content creation in ESL. Her professional journey has taken her from the United States to Europe, Africa, and back to North America, where she has consistently advocated for language coaching. Carrie has designed and deployed soft skills and teacher training programs funded by the U.S. Department of State and USAID. Her academic background includes a B.S. and M.S.Ed. in applied linguistics and global higher education.
Most recently, you can find Carrie language coaching in refugee and immigrant communities in North America, as well as working with companies and individual clients as a language coach. As the co-founder of ILCA, the International Language Coaching Association, Carrie focuses on digital strategy, contributing to the global expansion of language coaching practices. In another aspect of her career, Carrie is actively involved as a startup founder, focusing on menstrual cycle awareness, where she applies her expertise in communication and education. She enjoys spending time in nature and traveling, drawing inspiration from these experiences to innovate in her professional work.
Gabriella Kovács, PCC
Australian-born, Gabriella Kovács MA, PCC is an internationally certified language and communication coach with ICF, a business trainer, career coach and teacher trainer, international speaker and author of A Comprehensive Language Coaching Handbook (2022; Pavilion Publishing and Media). Her training includes a B.Ed. and MA, also a mentoring certificate from ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary.
Her current work focuses on supporting international corporate clients with communication challenges from project- to session-level. She co-founded ILCA, the International Language Coaching Association, supporting language practitioners globally. Gabriella takes care of social media and visual representation for ILCA. She is curiosity-driven and loves creating new programs through ideation processes. Working with educators has led her to work in Erasmus programs. Her passion for balancing indoor and outdoor activities has provided the space to create innovative approaches to teacher training and coaching.
Meet ILCA
Our Co-Founders
Driven by their dedication to spreading the global practice of language coaching.
Carrie McKinnon
Co-Founder
Carrie McKinnon is a linguist and entrepreneur specializing in business communication training, program direction, and content creation in ESL. Her professional journey has taken her from the United States to Europe, Africa, and back to North America, where she has consistently advocated for language coaching. Carrie has designed and deployed soft skills and teacher training programs funded by the U.S. Department of State and USAID. Her academic background includes a B.S. and M.S.Ed. in applied linguistics and global higher education.
Most recently, you can find Carrie language coaching in refugee and immigrant communities in North America, as well as working with companies and individual clients as a language coach. As the co-founder of ILCA, the International Language Coaching Association, Carrie focuses on digital strategy, contributing to the global expansion of language coaching practices. In another aspect of her career, Carrie is actively involved as a startup founder, focusing on menstrual cycle awareness, where she applies her expertise in communication and education. She enjoys spending time in nature and traveling, drawing inspiration from these experiences to innovate in her professional work.
Gabriella Kovács, PCC
Co-Founder
Australian-born, Gabriella Kovács MA, PCC is an internationally certified language and communication coach with ICF, a business trainer, career coach and teacher trainer, international speaker and author of A Comprehensive Language Coaching Handbook (2022; Pavilion Publishing and Media). Her training includes a B.Ed. and MA, also a mentoring certificate from ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary.
Her current work focuses on supporting international corporate clients with communication challenges from project- to session-level. She co-founded ILCA, the International Language Coaching Association, supporting language practitioners globally. Gabriella takes care of social media and visual representation for ILCA. She is curiosity-driven and loves creating new programs through ideation processes. Working with educators has led her to work in Erasmus programs. Her passion for balancing indoor and outdoor activities has provided the space to create innovative approaches to teacher training and coaching.
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