Curiosity. Intellectual, human, spiritual. A long-life learning path that started almost 60 years ago and lead to 35 years of professional development in communication, research and teaching. Curiosity paved the way to my fascination for languages and the social and cultural construction of human societies through words. And it then led to diving into literary and business translation, multicultural and scientific interpreting, and to teaching from and with all the experience gathered along the way.
Curiosity, however, must be paired with self-discipline, perseverance, a sense of service and care, if the path is to be successful. This is why over time it would be completed with coaching, systemic and NLP training and a focus on the human side of life.
I agree: everything we care about is in nature human. But to engage in human communication and human development requires a specific set of skills and a keen observation of everything that surrounds us when we are there, putting into practice our professional gifts. And this is only built over time, with passion and relentless committment.
Finally, at the core, we always need to activate our inner creativity, the one that makes us unique, different, determined. Creativity with determination bears fruits. And although listed in a protocolary and somewhat standardized form in a resume it wouldn’t show its true sparkle, there it is, among the books published, the research carried out, the interpreting assignments unfolding in a tight space-time continuum…
Welcome to who I am. Curiosity may have killed the cat. It boosted me as you can see around these pages.