Eleanor S.
Lead mentor · ManchesterDELTA, 12 years coaching adult professionals. Specialises in interview English and pronunciation rebuilding for working adults.
Mentors
Meet the people who will sit with you each week.
Thirty-seven mentors across five time zones. All are native speakers with at least four years' experience teaching adults online. Pick whichever profile speaks to you — the trial is on us.
Six per cent of applying teachers join us.
Every applicant teaches three trial lessons with real Malaysian students. Then a pedagogy lead reviews the audio. Then a panel interviews them. Last year we added six mentors from 412 applications.
Marcus B.
Business · TorontoFormer corporate communications trainer. Negotiation English, financial vocabulary and crisp presentation craft.
Aisha O.
Exams · BirminghamIELTS examiner since 2017. Has guided 240+ Malaysian learners through IELTS, TOEFL and PTE Academic.
David L.
Young learners · MelbournePrimary teacher turned online mentor. Story-based lessons that keep children genuinely curious between sessions.
Rosa C.
Conversation · AucklandEleven years of conversation circles for adult learners. Builds reading lists from films, novels and Malaysian dramas.
James T.
Academic · EdinburghLectures in academic writing at a Scottish university. Coaches Malaysian postgraduate applicants on personal statements and viva preparation.
Nadia H.
Pronunciation · GlasgowTrained speech and language therapist. Specialises in pronunciation rebuilding for learners who've plateaued in fluency.
Oliver M.
Tech English · VancouverSoftware product manager by day, English mentor by evening. Coaches engineers and designers on standups, demos and writing.
Behind the panel
What we look for at audition.
Skyforma mentors are picky people. We've found that the four traits below correlate most strongly with the learner outcomes we publish each quarter.
- A quiet listener. The candidate must let the student finish a sentence — even a messy one — before correcting.
- A planner. Lesson plans are short, written, and shared with the learner the day before.
- A kind voice. No shaming pronunciation, no eye-rolling at translated grammar.
- A curious eye. Mentors should be interested in what the learner does for a living, not just in teaching them English.
If that sounds like the kind of person you'd like to spend a fifty-minute weekly session with — pick anyone above and book a free trial.
Pick a mentor and book your free 25-minute trial.
Real teaching, kind feedback, written CEFR assessment delivered the same day.