Consulting Above
About
Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan as well as having a presence in the greater regions of Los Angeles County, California, Consulting Above is dedicated to designing and delivering exceptional learning experiences for English language learners throughout Japan and the US.
It is our mission, both with individuals and organizations, to facilitate English language proficiency and professional development. By building on clearly defined priorities, we help ensure that all of our clients reach their desired personal and professional outcomes.
Our firm specializes in all language related matters, from formulating new content, editing, teaching and developing language specific products.
Whether you’re a creative artist, musician, designer, engineer, or language school owner, we will build on what you create, polish and assist with what you need.
We bring years of experience, professionalism and passion to every professional opportunity. We will customize our support to fit your interests.
Your needs will always be our top focus.
Services
Consulting Above is dedicated to designing and delivering exceptional learning experiences for English language learners throughout Japan and the US. It is our mission, both with individuals and organizations, to facilitate English language proficiency and professional development. Building on clearly defined priorities, we help ensure that all of our clients reach their desired personal and professional outcomes. We offer a wide range of flexible rates including hourly based sessions, package based sessions, and project based sessions. Book a consultation today to gain more information on how we can best assist you for your language needs.
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For individual clients, we provide services to enable people to develop fluid, deeply confident communication skills that empower their personal lives and improve professional and economic prospects.
Services include supporting development of excellent TOEIC scores, fluency in professional communication and/or personal and casual conversation, and more.
Let us work with you to customize learning objectives specific to each client’s interests and goals.
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We custom-design programs and initiatives to encourage growth within each client institution, growing past rigid or ill-defined methods and practices, developing innovative approaches to deliver strong, goal-driven outcomes for your institution’s staff and customer base.
Services include programs that:
Help improve business-to-business and business-to-consumer communications
Develop internal policy documents and internal communications protocols to ensure consistency and focus among all stakeholders and services
Ensure quality of instruction through, among other strategies, developing rubrics and accountability measures that help ensure accurate and actionable assessment of each learners’ output
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TOEIC Prep Services and Strategies
Vocabulary development: using an innovative set of strategies we have developed over decades of hands-on instruction with English language learners, you’ll learn to parse unfamiliar words into component parts to quickly make sense of new words based solely on context and root elements of English, including stem words, prefixes, and suffixes, and expanding your knowledge of related words and word families from there
Grammar skills:
Reading comprehension:
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Training Teachers
Hands on training in how to teach presentation methods to boost student engagement
Lesson planning, curriculum design and assessment.
Increased retention.
Recognizing and rewarding teaching staff.
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Tokyo Metropolitan Government Project Energy Grant Research: Consulting Above was tapped to contribute research support services for an extensive grant application for federal funding for a major energy conservation project. We provided high-quality source references and insight into best practices regarding strategies to help make substantive reductions to city-wide energy use.
Academic Research, Editing, and Specialized Language Learning Services.
Hiring Practices, Resume Screening and Candidate Interviewing, sourcing talent.
Our Team
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Philip Jerge
FOUNDER
Having worked with Japanese learners since 2004, Philip Jerge was recruited in 2018 as a founding teacher and English language specialist at a major metropolitan English language instructional center. Working alongside the center’s management and a major education company’s curriculum team, he helped design initial offerings for a wide array of full immersion English language programs. During his time at the center, Phil took on increasing responsibilities for leadership and program administration, supervising three floors and overseeing the work of up to 100 teachers per day, and over time taking responsibility for sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and training new teachers and eventually new teams of trainers for teaching staff.
phil@ca-consultingabove.com
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Dr. Richard Hunt
CHIEF CONSULTANT
Richard Hunt is a writing consultant and college writing teacher; he earned his doctorate in 2016, specializing in rhetorical theory, rhetorics of social protest, and science fiction. As a teacher, Richard focuses on pedagogies that help students connect their work in the classroom to their lives outside the classroom and that develop student literacy skills along with life skills. As a researcher and writer, his interests include using writing as a means for intellectual and personal development, exploring interrelationships between students’ academic achievement and mental health, and using rhetorical theory as a lens for analyzing the politics and processes of listening in US literature, pop culture, and public and political discourse.
rich@ca-consultingabove.com
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Warren Petredis
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PARTNER
Warren is a life-long native of Southern California, residing previously in Los Angeles and currently in Orange County. He first met Philip in 2011, and since that time, they have maintained a close friendship as well as a strong business partnership. Over the years, Warren has collaborated extensively with Philip on a variety of business development projects, efforts that played a significant role in the establishment of CA-Consulting Above. Warren brings to the table a diverse and extensive background across multiple private sector industries, including aerospace, medical devices, technology, research and development, and business development.
warren@ca-consultingabove.com
Contact Us
Start fulfilling your language needs today!
Begin your learning journey with us now.
Schedule a consultation, we are keen to communicate and learn about you.
Email for more information about how we can best assist you.
Our team of dedicated experts are excited to assist you with tailoring a unique plan that works with your budget and your unique language based goals.