Business advisory, career counseling and ESL sessions with adults

Teaching Beginner and Intermediate Russian and English through one on one online virtual classroom instruction and face to face intensive courses.

Provides ELS instruction and career counseling/coaching to individual clients. Employs active listening techniques to help quickly establish a constructive rapport and trust. Quickly eases any anxieties and fosters students in conversational fluency in the shortest amount of time. Drive learners to engage in active discourse in which English is used in the context of specific business situations or relevant global and social topics. Through psychology and humor, gets students to overcome hesitation and cultural stigmas that may hold them back from opening up and sharing meaningful information with someone from another culture or with native English speakers. Adapt content and style to each client’s level, personality and goals. Conducts conversation-driven lessons through questions and answers on vital global topics (Globalization, Protectionism, Media, Populism). Topics relevant to clients actual lives allow them to feel secure enough with the language to take more chances and extend their conversational fluency Creates realistic scenarios (e.g., interviews, presentations, meetings.) to help with preparation to achieve specified goals. Leverages visualization, guiding clients through a process of imagining the actions required to achieve their goals.

Taught Business English in groups and to individuals at Moscow's best adult foreign-language school. Core activities: Situation Management, Career Coaching, Career Development, Self-Motivation, Job Interview Preparation and Presentation Training.Developed teams of native speakers and advance Russian teachers to improve language-teaching service to middle-level and senior professionals.Re-energized and oversaw the school Speaking Club by selecting provocative themes and creative interactive group activities. Trained teachers to engage participants and inspire sincere discourse.Over a two-year period, petitioned and negotiated with Cambridge University Language Assessments to grant the school a license as a Cambridge Exam center. License was granted in 2011.

Implemented importation, distribution, sales, marketing, PR for Dos Andes wines . Managed network of distributors and their supply chain to retail, hotels, restaurants and cafes. Conducted entertaining educational wine seminars and tastings for restaurant staff, private clients and embassy social clubs.Led three delegations of of sommeliers, restaurateurs and wine journalists to Aconcagua Valley and Patagonia, Chile in 2009 and 2011 for wine courses and field training in exclusive vineyards.

Strategic planning, profit forecasting, brand development of premium vodkas;Development of entry strategy, brand and distribution plans for premium Chilean wine group;Created new distribution company for promotion and development of core brands;Increased Gzhelka vodka market share and distribution five-fold 24 months;successfully integrated imported premium wines into the company's portfolio;established leading market share of imported vodka in several key export countries;

Responsible for Factory, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Logistics of baked goods business;Full accountability on P&L, cost control, budget planning, control, cash flow, Capex;Dancake brand returned to volume and market share growth after two-year decline;Integrated Kondi confectionery factory (Ufa) into the Company system and operations;Effectively steered company through major crisis after devastating fire destroyed the business;

Responsible for commercial policy, sales development and brand strategies at three breweries; focus was on Capex and capacity utilization; integration of regional factories' production, planning and marketing systems; organized and administered team learning sessions on corporate etiquette and business systems;Devised and implemented groundbreaking partnership with the World Wildlife Federation, establishing a fund for the protection of the Amur tiger in Russian far East with revenue generated through local beer sales. The first and only WWF program to use the panda emblem on an alcoholic product.Sales increased from 150,000 hl in 2000 to 2,4 mln hl in 2003, EBITDA from 3 mln US$ to 24 mln;total market share increased from 0,2 % in 2002, 1,0 % in 2001, 4,2 % in 2002;

Started up the Representative Office in 1996; recruited sales force, marketing team, customer service & logistics teams; retained full P&L accountability for five brand sector units; set up wholly-owned on-shore affiliate in 1997; obtained import licenses and opened ruble accounts; expanded distribution nationally, widening distributor base from one to fourteen in two years;Pioneered quality nation-wide direct marketing and direct mail to critical target groups; secured regulatory clearance to distribute Huggies care packages to new mothers in maternity wardsIncreased Huggies diapers distribution from 14 % in 1996 to 75 % nationwide in 1999; sales - 1996 US$ 6,0 mln, 1997 US$ 13,5 mln, 1998 US$ 27,8 mln;

Started up the Representative Office, recruiting locals to fill new departments; designed performance measurement systems for staff and distributors; managed and grew network of distributors, widening customer base from five to thirty;Created staff departments for budget planning, marketing, G&A, sales and P&L; assisted in operations of joint venture with Ukrainian vodka factoryPersonally pioneered the tequila market and established Chivas Regal and Martell brands in Russia;increased market share of imported premium spirits from 10 % to 38 %; developed and organized promotional launch of brands which are still market leaders;

Oversaw counter-trade project with Kraft General Foods on tobacco and tomato paste; developed and implemented sales and field marketing tools for Philip Morris brands; carried out primary corporate analysis cigarette market and developed models for evaluating distributors;Closely advised USSR Ministry of Agriculture during "the tobacco crisis" of 1990; introduced USSR market to Miller Beer and Jacobs-Suchard lines of coffee and chocolates.