Brian Johnson is a language educator and corporate communication trainer with more than fifteen years of experience helping working professionals communicate across languages. He is the author of *Spanish at Work* and the creator of workplace language programs used by teams in finance, technology, healthcare, and hospitality across North America and Europe.
He learned Spanish the way he teaches it: on the job. After graduating with a degree in international studies, he moved to Madrid, where he coordinated projects for a European logistics firm, and later to Mexico City, where he managed operations and led bilingual teams through client launches, supplier negotiations, and late-night production crises. Those years taught him which phrases actually matter in a workday — and which grammar rules rarely come up in a meeting.
He holds a master's degree in applied linguistics and is a certified instructor of Spanish for professional purposes. His training programs have helped thousands of professionals give their first presentations, lead their first calls, and send their first emails in Spanish. He has written and spoken about language learning at industry events, and his methods have been adopted by corporate learning and development teams at global organizations.
Brian lives in Austin, Texas, with his family. When he's not teaching, he is usually climbing, cooking, or explaining to his children — in Spanish, of course — why learning a second language is the best superpower a person can have.