Meet the Trainers

Founder
Suzannah Redmond
Train-to-TEFL is owned and managed by Suzannah Redmond. Suzannah has been teaching English since 2001 and has worked in a variety of settings including universities, schools, voluntary organisations and colleges.
Her work has taken her from Santiago in Chile to Salford via Paris! She is an experienced examiner for the high stakes Cambridge IELTS exam and has written exam papers for Trinity ESOL. She currently runs community ESOL programmes in Greater Manchester and leads the Trinity CertTESOL at Train-to-TEFL. Suzannah is a qualified Cambridge CELTA teacher trainer

Co-Founder
Chris Kew
Chris Kew has been teaching English since 1993 in both the UK and abroad. Whilst working in France in the late 90’s, Chris obtained an MPhil (DEA) in Second Language Acquisition at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris and, on his return to the UK, he completed a Master’s degree in Education at the University of Manchester.
He has since worked as a teacher of English for Academic purposes (EAP) at the University of Manchester and as programme manager of Pre-sessional English at the University of Salford. Chris is currently freelance examiner and academic consultant.