uwk was founded in 1992 by ute wieczorek-king. 

mission

Regardless of whether courses are one-to-one or group courses, language or coaching sessions, Ute and her carefully chosen team of experienced tutors work on the philosophy that the individual learner and their needs are always paramount. They aim to inspire and empower learners and provide them with the tools and resources for a continuous and sustained process of learning and development. They have always had one objective: to create a learning environment that would provide clients with an innovative, stimulating, and ultimately rewarding experience.  

background/experience

As a director of uwk, Ute Wieczorek-King is a native German speaker who is completely bilingual and has lived in the UK for many years. She has a degree in English (including Teaching English as A Foreign Language), German and Geography, a PGCE, and is a fully qualified teacher. She has studied Psychology and has always had an interest in people, in how they learn and interact, especially when from different cultures. Her background in teaching includes experience in pre-school Montessori education, primary and secondary schools as well as adult education.

professional development

In her aim to help individual learners of German learn independently and achieve higher and more specific language goals than is possible in traditional language courses, Ute pioneered a concept for a tailor-made distance learning course in 1995 and has been working with this since, with great success.  

Ute developed an interest in performance coaching in the late 90s as a result of working with very advanced non-native speakers of English. They often appeared ‘fluent’ in English and coped satisfactorily, but needed to boost their skills in order to improve their professional performance.     

She discovered the benefits of coaching as a way to enable people to use their own resources, find their own answers and reach their own goals and soon after she started to incorporate aspects of coaching into uwk language courses, she was able to offer skills transfer coaching programmes in addition to language training. uwk coaching, a separate business coaching consultancy was subsequently founded by Ute in 2002. 

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to”. 

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), author of ''The Prophet''  

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