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Catherine Aygen
Consultante Formatrice & Coach en Prise de Parole en Anglais | Dirigeante d’A Star Formation (Qualiopi) | Top 3 européen de discours improvisé | Appli IA d’analyse de discours
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October 14, 2025
Very happy to be presenting again at the #besig2025 annual conference, this time in Athens! For all of you who will be attending, come and see me talk about "Gatecrashing my way to great client" on Sunday morning at 10.30 - plenty of time to have a coffee and wake up before then 😁 If you have your own business, or you'd like to, I hope you'll find some useful information in my talk. And if you're not coming, why not? There's still time to sign up! (As Aegean Airlines randomly changed the date of my return flight, it looks like I'll also be having a holiday in Athens 😎) See you there? Lucy Tilney Evan Frendo Ami Salk Kirsten Waechter Tetiana Lesyk Annemette Østergaard Henriksen Ridha Mejri Joanna Richard we'll finally meet in person! Barnaby Griffiths Timothy O'Flaherty will you be there this year?
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Lucy Tilney
Helping you improve your English fast through intensive 1-2-1 personalised courses in my Bristol home; fluency, flavoursome food & fun. Expert tuition for middle managers to accelerate listening and speaking skills fast.
25 days ago
I'll be there dear Catherine Aygen ! Looking forward to it very much!
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Ellen Baker Dubois
TOEIC Teacher/Trainer at BusinessEnglishAllure.com
29 days ago
Oh good! 👍
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Ridha Mejri
Senior Lecturer of Business Communication & Intercultural Management at the University of Applied Sciences Worms (Germany), Conference Speaker, Intercultural Consultant & Trainer. GlobeSmart Profile Advanced Practitioner
29 days ago
I guess your session and mine are scheduled at the same time. Torn between supporting yours & attending my own - if only conferences came with a clone option :-))
Last week I had one of the scariest experiences of my life. I was flying back from Amsterdam to Nice after the Toastmasters international conference. Everything was as usual, until the pilot announced, “We’re going back to Amsterdam.” Everyone in the plane groaned. But then he added, “There’s an electrical fault which has affected the brakes and we don’t know if the back up braking system has been affected or not. We need to go back to Amsterdam to land on the longest runway possible. The crew will now prepare you for an emergency landing in 30 minutes.” The worst thing was that I could hear in the pilot’s voice that he was stressed. I looked at the crew’s faces and although they were calm, their faces showed that they were scared. The next 30 minutes were spent practising the brace position, removing all jewellery, glasses, tightening our seatbelts, learning how to open the emergency doors. We were told to study the safety card, which everyone did more intently than ever before! And like most of the other people on the plane, I was quietly worrying that we’d crash at the end of the runway and perhaps this was how I was going to die. We landed in brace position, with the crew shouting “brace for landing”. Luckily the emergency brakes worked 😅 If you’re expecting me to tell you that I have now changed my life for the better and I’m giving everything up to become a life coach… …I’m not 😆 I did say to myself, “Only trains from now on”, but I still had to get home and that involved two flights the next day. What I did realise was sometimes you have to give up control and put yourself in the hands of people who are trained for this. Also that after we landed, all the passengers were talking to each other, everyone was friendly and helpful. And when I saw some of my fellow passengers the next day, it’s like we were friends, bonded by this experience. And that made me think, why can’t we always create these human connections, even when we’re not in such an emotionally charged situation? So that is my resolution from this experience: make more human connections with everyone around me. (Photo taken from my flight home the next day: I’ve never been so happy to see the Îles Lerins 😁)
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