OUR STORY
Hello and thank you for visiting our site. We are Meg Mann and Mark Brown. We both grew up in central Florida but didn’t know each other then. By the time we met in Dallas, Texas in 1993 we were well into our careers, tired of stressful lives and looking for an international adventure Two important things we had in common were living abroad and a love of languages: Meg had studied in both Guatemala and Italy, and Mark had spent several years in Argentina and Brazil.
Destiny took us to eastern Slovakia in 1994, where we worked as volunteers. Those were interesting times in Central Europe: five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Slovakia had just completed its ‘Velvet Divorce’ from the Czech Republic. Lots of culture shock, lots of learning, lots of stories…
In Slovakia Meg worked with the American Bar Association and Mark taught at an international school. Destiny stepped in again in 1995 when Meg was invited to design and deliver a brand-new training program for professionals and managers at KPMG, one of the Big Four accounting firms.
That engagement for KPMG was the genesis of our work in Executive Education, Leadership Development, Coaching and Coach training. The program expanded quickly and we ended up working across Central Europe and Russia for the next six years. In the meantime, we moved to Brussels to study for our MBAs, and while there, our opportunities for further Executive Education expanded to include work with a wide range of multinational clients in 25 countries, with executives of more than 80 nationalities, traveling the globe and enjoying every minute of it!
One last detail: how did we land in Iberia? To be honest, the Slovak winters were hard on two thin-blooded Floridians, so in 1997 we began spending the winter months in northern Portugal, and fell in love with it. After a six-year stint in Brussels, we returned to Portugal in 2005 to live there full time. In 2024 we decided to continue our adventures by moving a bit up the Atlantic coast to Galicia in northwest Spain. We are now in lovely Pontevedra, a World Heritage City on the Camiño de Santiago, and life is good!