The TEFL org operates internationally running online, classroom and combined TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language ) courses. Started from a shed in our backyard in a village in the Highlands of Scotland, we’ve since moved offices several times and now trade internationally, selling in many countries.
I don’t think I would have been able to run a business, grow it internationally and be as involved in the lives of my three children if it had not been for changing technology and the internet. This has enabled me to not only start and grow a business with my partner in the Highlands of Scotland but to run it from wherever I am in the world at any given time, whether this has been the Great Wall of China or the sofa in my living room.
Jennifer’s story
In 2008, my husband (at the time) and long-term business partner, with our three kids aged nine, seven and two, decided to pack up our home in West Yorkshire, move North to Ross-shire, where I’m originally from and set up a new business training people to teach English as a Foreign Language.
My biggest challenge was
My biggest challenge was probably taking over control of the company from my then husband and managing the attitudes of external partners (seeing a man’s name as one of the directors would nine times out of ten lead to the presumption that he was senior partner) the and also making a success of our relationship while working together in quite a fraught, stressful situation.
Jennifer recommends
Mentoring for women-owned businesses
Start-up Ready Checklist: digital skills
The 6 Ms of a successful Start Up Plan