Fernando Guarany, Communication & Language Education Specialist.

Professional Profile Educational consultant and English Language Teaching (ELT) professional with 30 years of experience. Expertise includes academic management, teacher training, and curriculum development. Relocating to Warsaw or Krakow, Poland, in June 2026. Currently studying the Polish language. Exploring Master’s degree programs in instructional design and educational technology.

Core Competencies & Qualifications

Educational Consulting: Works as an independent consultant exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and education, creativity and dialogic pedagogy.

Corporate Training: Holds a DELTA (Diploma in English Language Teaching- Cambridge University), CELTA Grade “A” (Certificate in English Language Teaching - Cambridge University), First Teaching Business English (FTBE) certification from London Chamber of Commerce and Industry); a degree in Marketing, a degree and postgraduate degree in English, Portuguese and Language Teaching; designs corporate training aligned with the commercial needs of business English schools. General and ESP English traininig programmes and courses.

Teacher Development: Designs and delivers bespoke remote and in-person teacher development programs.

Industry Leadership: Served as National Secretary and Advisory Board Member for BRAZ-TESOL (Brazil Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages).

Public Speaking: Presented at over 200 international conferences, including IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) in the UK. Focuses heavily on AI-assisted language learning.

Professional Experience Highlights

British Council Brazil (Academic Manager): Managed large teams of freelance educators, teacher trainers, and materials writers. Directed the delivery of large-scale teaching projects. Received the 2014 Employee of the Year award for meeting organizational educational objectives.

Cultura Inglesa (Academic Coordinator): Redesigned the institutional curriculum and implemented innovative approaches to improve language acquisition.

Federal Institutes IFRN and UFRN (Lecturer): Implemented progressive and adaptive teaching methodologies within the state education sector.