Who We Are and What We Do
IELA is privately owned and run, offering a unique hands-on, personalised approach to sourcing schools and to learning.
Our experienced Student Co-Ordinators are located close to our partner schools, across Ireland, and our head offices are located within 20 minutes of Dublin airport, we offer accessibility and diversity to our students.
Our Culture
We are a values driven organisation and they play an important part of our culture:
- Creative ingenuity:Creativity exists as a red thread through everything we do, from our very solution solving and finding new and creative ways to solve complex problems and evolve internal process.
- Always excellent:We deliver excellence to our agents/parents/students and host families and that requirement filters through to every element of our culture. Our organisational excellence and attention to detail underpins all we do.
- Passionately proud:We are immensely proud of our dedicted team and and our amazing host families.
- Talk:We operate a safe and inclusive environment. Awareness and understanding of every individuals lived experience is valued. We talk openly and ask you to do the same.
- What’s next?:If the last year has taught us anything, it is that we can never know what’s around the corner. We always have one eye on the horizon and are continually asking ourselves … what’s next?
Meet The Team
Emer has a passion for problem-solving and the challenges it brings and is responsible for fiscal management and planning, sales and marketing and strategic business planning with Ireland’s Eye Language Academy.
Outside of IELA, Emer’s enjoys walking in Sutton & Howth, practising yoga and spending time with friends and family. Emer is married to Michael and mother to Cillian, Bríana & Siân and lives in Sutton.
She is a fluent German speaker and having studied and worked abroad, she understands the students’ perspective and is passionate about International Education and its benefits.
She enjoys yoga, travelling, and spending time with her husband and son.
She is a fluent French speaker, and she has worked in various international industries including tourism and transportation. Joan hosted students for six years and she has gained a wealth of experience from hosting over the years.
In her spare time Joan likes to travel and read. She lives with her Husband and three children in Leopardstown.
Having worked as a Special Needs Assistant in an International School in the Netherlands and setting up her own business in helping children ‘how to learn’, Nicolette has a wide experience in working with children and teenagers in particular.
In her free time she enjoys yoga, walking and exploring all the lovely nature Ireland has to offer.
Nicolette lives in Clonmel and is our local student co-ordinator for Tipperary.
Laura really enjoys working with children and teenagers and loves to get to know her students well and ensure their time here is enjoyable, safe and well supported.
Laura loves the outdoors, walking her dogs and spending time with her family.
Fiona is a mother of 4 children and lives in Howth with her family. She enjoys Music, sport, reading and walking on the local beach.
loves working with and helping people.
She graduated from Ulster University with a BA Degree (HONS) in Applied Languages and Translation Studies with Spanish and French and completed an Erasmus year abroad in Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria studying Translation and Interpreting. She spent a number of years working on Gran Canaria.
She is a mother of two young boys and in her free time, she enjoys travelling with her family, cooking and fashion.
Outside of work, Jean enjoys playing tennis, reading, walking, theatre and cinema. She lives in Raheny with her husband and 2 sons.