Programs designed around role, sector, and objectives - not generic CEFR levels. Delivered on-site at your office, online live, or at our campuses.
International Council is the corporate language arm of the Adiuva group - sister of Accademia di Italiano, founded 1975. We are not a translation agency moonlighting as a school, nor a tech platform with freelance tutors. Five decades, four owned campuses, one institution.
Every enterprise account is assigned a single program manager who owns it from kickoff to renewal. They run the discovery, brief faculty, monitor attendance, sign the quarterly report, and propose the next renewal. The same person, every quarter.
Our 32 faculty members are employees, not freelancers. Most have been with us 8+ years, with industry-specific specialism: pharma, luxury, finance, automotive, consulting. The average tenure of an enterprise learner's tutor is 5.2 years.
If a learner does not reach the contractually agreed CEFR level by the end of the program, additional hours are delivered at no charge until the milestone is met - provided attendance has been at least 80%. Written into every enterprise contract since 2018.
All learner data on EU servers (AWS Frankfurt / Ireland). DPO at Adiuva. SCORM 1.2 / xAPI content for your LMS (Cornerstone, Workday, SAP, Moodle). SSO via SAML or Azure AD on request. Onboarding pack for procurement reviewed in two business days.
For engineers, researchers, and lab managers relocating to an Italian office. The program runs alongside HR onboarding milestones - from arrival paperwork to first project handover. Italian taught against the participant's actual role, not a textbook syllabus.
What learners practice each week:
Intensive immersion for executives moving to Italy with their family. The executive learns industry Italian to lead Italian teams; the spouse and children follow their own modules in parallel at the same campus, on a schedule that fits school hours.
What the program covers:
For sales reps, account managers, retail directors, and negotiators who use English in client work every week. Vertical terminology built into the syllabus - pharma, luxury, finance, automotive - with role-play on real client scenarios from your pipeline.
What learners practice each week:
One-to-one coaching for senior leaders running multinational teams. Combines language work, cross-cultural fluency, and communication coaching. The same tutor for the entire mandate, matched to the executive's industry and seniority.
What we work on together:
Four phases, one program manager, written outcomes at every milestone. The cadence is the same whether your cohort is 6 engineers or 60 sales reps.
Needs analysis with HR and line managers. We map roles, deadlines, business outcomes, and learner profiles before quoting anything.
Custom curriculum built around your work - not a generic textbook. Industry vocabulary integrated; line-manager interviews shape every module.
Certified live faculty on-site or online, paired with digital reinforcement between sessions. Single program manager owns your account end-to-end.
Quarterly written report to HR and L&D leadership. Pre/post CEFR benchmark per learner. The Council Learning Guarantee in every contract.
Faculty interview line managers in the first week. They pull real specs, briefs, scripts, emails - redacted - and build the curriculum around them. No generic CEFR textbook. Every vocabulary list, every dialogue, every role-play is grounded in your actual work.
HR-only dashboard with attendance per learner, CEFR progress, engagement metrics, completion rate. Quarterly PDF report signed by your program manager, ready to forward to leadership. SCORM/xAPI export to your LMS on request.
The app is the reinforcement, not the product. Daily micro-lessons (7 min), audio drills recorded by the learner's tutor, spaced-repetition review, push reminders before live sessions, quarterly CEFR check-in. Live faculty remains the core.
Each cohort has a primary tutor and a named substitute, briefed monthly on the cohort's progress. If the primary is sick or unavailable, the substitute steps in seamlessly. We have not cancelled a single enterprise session in the last 10 years.
Contractual CEFR-level guarantee. If a learner with ≥80% attendance does not reach the agreed level by end of program, additional hours are delivered at no charge until they do. Written into every enterprise contract since 2018, invoked twice in 80 contracts.
All faculty members are mother-tongue or fully bilingual, certified (CELTA, DELTA, DITALS, or equivalent), with a minimum of three years' experience in their specialism. Hired and trained in-house, not freelancers.
Lead faculty for pharma R&D and life-sciences cohorts. Twenty-two years coaching international researchers from arrival paperwork to lab handover.
"Italian opens the lab door. After that, the work opens the rest."
Senior coach for C-suite relocation and cross-cultural leadership. Former exec interpreter, twelve years coaching board-level engagements.
"Executives don't need grammar. They need to chair their first Italian board meeting in eight weeks."
Lead for sales-enablement cohorts. Role-play specialist; eight years embedded with multinational sales teams in Milan and Turin.
"We rehearse the call your team is going to make on Wednesday. Then we debrief it on Friday."
Top-decile GMAT / GRE / IMAT coach. Fifteen years of admissions coaching to Bocconi SDA, INSEAD, Harvard, Stanford, Bologna Medicine.
"There are no smart students; there are students who learned the question types. I'll teach you the types."
From first call to first session in 10 business days - with procurement, HR and the line manager aligned on outcomes before anything is signed.
Enterprise pricing starts around €18,000 / year for a small onboarding cohort and scales with headcount, languages, and delivery format. Indicative ranges:
All prices ex-VAT. The Council Learning Guarantee is included in every contract. Discounts for multi-year commitments and for combining onboarding + relocation + sales tracks.
Request a written quote →Francesca Bottini, Head of Enterprise - based at our Milan HQ. She takes the first call personally, prepares the proposal, and stays on the account through kickoff.
Book a 30-min call →Standard turnaround from signed proposal to first session is 10 business days. For pre-arrival prep we deploy a mobile-app warm-up the day the engineer accepts your offer letter, and live sessions begin within 5 business days of their start date.
Yes - one re-match included per cohort, no questions, no charge. We collect a learner-tutor fit signal at session 3; if either side flags a mismatch, a new tutor is matched within 5 business days and the existing hours roll over.
Three options: per-learner subscription (most common, monthly invoice for HR), per-cohort fixed price (when the group composition is locked), or annual enterprise contract with flat headcount and roll-over hours. We adapt to your procurement.
If a learner does not reach the contractually agreed CEFR level by the end of the program, additional hours are delivered at no charge until the milestone is met - provided attendance has been at least 80%. Written into every enterprise contract.
Yes. Content ships SCORM 1.2 / xAPI to Cornerstone, Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Moodle, or any LMS that speaks the standard. SSO via SAML 2.0 or Azure AD on request. All data stays on EU servers (AWS Frankfurt / Ireland).
Italy is our base - four owned campuses - but enterprise programs can be delivered fully online, or hybrid with periodic on-site weeks. We currently serve cohorts in Switzerland, Germany, the UK, and remote engineers across the EU.
A 30-minute call with one of our enterprise consultants. No deck, no pitch - we listen, map your need, send a written proposal within 5 business days. We onboard a small number of new accounts each quarter, on purpose.
