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Meet the Team

Natasha Kennedy (UK) - Owner and Director of Operations

Natasha has a background in Law (LLB) and Human Resources (Dip HRM). Over the last eight years, she has been teaching business English extensively throughout the Madrid province. During this time she has acquired an in-depth knowledge of writing materials, teaching groups, conducting telephone classes, seminars and intensive courses targeted at the business community.

Natasha was also the Director of Studies for an in-house programme with a leading 5consultancy firm in Madrid. This involved training, managing teachers and ensuring that all 140 students were happy and reached their language targets.

Natasha is a TEFL trainer who has worked in various TEFL schools in Madrid before starting up Tt Madrid.

Whilst being a trainer on the course, Natasha is also very involved with graduates and her mornings are spent helping graduates with lesson planning, jobs or having a cup of tea and a chat if someone is feeling a little homesick!

Temura Lee (Australian) - Course Director

Temura has extensive experience in the education sector and has worked at and attended some of the most prestigious educational institutions in Australia; the Australian Film Television and Radio School, the National Institute for Dramatic Art, Metro Screen, the Australian Defence Force Academy and the University of New South Wales.

Temura has an Honours Degree in English, a Post Graduate Degree in Directing and joined TtMadrid as a TEFL instructor after carving out a very successful career as a Business English consultant in Madrid.

Temura is also an ex-army officer so please be on time!

John Hewson (UK) - Assistant Course Director  

John has been teaching English in Madrid for the last 3 years and has earned a reputation teaching directors and executives while working in corporate environments around Madrid, such as Telefonica, Caja Madrid, Sony-Ericsson, KPMG and General Electric.

John started training with TtMadrid over a year ago and after becoming a qualified observer, he become a part-time trainer and has recently taken over a Assistant Director of Studies.

John comes from a strong business background with a web design agency and providing live stage sound services to a number of household names in the UK.  All this experience has allowed him to flourish as a business English teacher with a  particular interest in the latest cutting edge educational technology.

During his time teaching, John has been busy developing materials for both face to face classes and online /telephone teaching material. As a former TT Graduate he finished his course finding a passion for elaborate, useful and fun class materials.

Lisette Miranda (American) - Trainee Support Manager

Lisette is the first point of contact for all our potential trainees and is a wealth of knowledge and advice. After a degree in Science in Psychology with a Double Minor in Business and Education, Lisette completed her TEFL Cert with us in March 2009. She has extensive experience in marketing and event organizing and teaches English in Madrid whilst working for TtMadrid.

Lisette has an infectious personality which makes her an excellent person as the liaison contact. She also arranges amazing social parties which keeps our TtMadrid community very close.

Megan Worcester (American) - Observer and Trainee Trainer

Megan has her background in Foreign Language Education, with a focus on Spanish. Throughout college she worked extensively with Ambassadors for Children, a non-profit organization which helps and builds schools and libraries in Third World countries. After studying abroad in the south of Spain, Megan decided to make Spain her home.  She completed her Student Teaching in Avila, a before completing her TEFL certification through TtMadrid.  She is currently completing her Masters in English as a Second Language through Indiana University.

Megan has taught extensively in the business and private sectors.  Megan is the newest member to join the TtMadrid team and has completed her training to be an observer and is now training on other elements of the course.

Victoria Galloway (British) - PR Manager

Victoria handles our public relations, marketing and media inquiries for the UK market. She is the best person to speak to regarding copywriting, promotions and online media and writes press releases and articles about TEFL, Madrid and travel. Victoria has a degree in Classics from The University of Warwick and worked in a London PR agency for almost 2 years before heading to Madrid. She completed our August 2009 course and teaches mainly business and financial English in Madrid whilst working for TtMadrid.
Victoria can often be found in the school drinking coffee and is always open to giving advice about all things Madrid and TEFL! Victoria strongly believes everyone should check out TtMadrid's twitter account, blog and e-zine articles pages where top-notch advise about all things TEFL can be found.