About Us
Why choose Open Mind Teaching?
Open Mind English Teaching Team
Richard Clement
Teacher and founder of Open Mind English Teaching
Richard is the founder or Open Mind English Teaching and has been teaching English and coaching business students in the classroom, one-on-one and online, for the last 11 years. He has 18 years’ experience working in the IT sector, within a number of international corporations. Consequently, Richard is a very professional and proficient teacher of business English.
He is a passionate teacher who is highly motivated to help students achieve their goals. His main areas of expertise are pronunciation, business English and International English Language Testing System (IELTS). He has a bachelor’s degree in computer science, the Cambridge Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA), provides business and life coaching.
In his personal time, he loves to exercise, go camping and study science and philosophy. He has also taught juggling for 20 years and runs a successful YouTube tutorial channel.
Julie O’Brien
Teacher and Senior Adviser
Julie has over 16 years’ experience teaching English language and is a self-professed grammar nerd. During her career, she has helped countless professionals, teens, and children develop and improve their English skills both face-to-face and online.
She creates lessons which are engaging and relatable and she enjoys seeing her students make good progress. She has a bachelor’s degree in Teaching and the Cambridge Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA).
Julie likes ALL forms of music and regularly goes to gigs and music festivals. When she’s not dancing to live music, she also likes to spend time in nature, hiking and camping.