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1975
I. Corporate Language · Italy & EMEA Vol. L · Est. 1975

The Italian language partner HR teams keep for 11 years on average.

Italian for international hires. Executive coaching in 16 languages. Test prep for top schools. Corporate relocation. Certified live faculty — plus a real digital platform with HR dashboard and SCORM‑ready LMS integration. We take on a small number of enterprise accounts each year. We stay with them.

Faculty session · Milan campus
11yrs
Avg client tenure
1975
Operating since
16
Languages on request
4
Owned campuses, Italy
II. Selected Clients Active engagements · 2024–2026

A selected group. One Italian partner.

Pharma R&D teams, luxury maisons, Italian heritage industry, university partners. We work with a small number of accounts on purpose — depth over scale.

Pharma R&D group
Italian luxury maison
Tier-1 consulting firm
Heritage automotive
Politecnico Milano
European NGO
Italian university partner
Premium fashion house
Pharma R&D group
Italian luxury maison
Tier-1 consulting firm
Heritage automotive
Politecnico Milano
European NGO
Italian university partner
Premium fashion house
III. Owned Campuses 4 cities · Italy

Four Italian cities. Four classrooms we own.

Most vendors rent hotel meeting rooms. We teach in spaces we have operated for decades. Programs run on-site at the client or at our own facilities, interchangeably.

Milan
Headquarters
Florence
Campus
Mantua
Specialist center
Turin
Campus
Most asked
IV. Admission Tests Bocconi · Harvard · INSEAD · LSE

Preparation for top-school admission tests.

If you or your relocating employee need to pass a GMAT, GRE, SAT or ACT to enter a top business school or US university, we prepare you 1-on-1 with a tutor who scored in the top decile of that exact exam.

GMAT
For MBA admission
Business school entrance exam — Bocconi SDA, INSEAD, LBS, Wharton, HBS.
GRE
For Master & PhD
Required by most US graduate programs in science, engineering, social sciences.
SAT
For US undergrad
Undergraduate admission to US colleges — and Bocconi's BIG/BIEM programs.
ACT
Alternative to SAT
Accepted by all US universities. Some students score higher on ACT than SAT.
12h 1:1 with a top-decile tutor full general prep€1,080
12h Single section coaching verbal / quant / writing€1,080
12h Shared with a friend per person€650
Diagnostic test verbal + quantitative€120
Schools our students enter Bocconi · SDA Bocconi · LUISS · INSEAD · LBS · IE · LSE · MIT Sloan · Stanford GSB · Harvard Business School · Wharton · HEC Paris
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Why HR teams pick us over the giants.

We are deliberately small. The promise is not scale — the promise is depth, continuity, and a single program manager who knows your account by name for as long as the program runs.

Not a SaaS platform

We don't sell €30/month per employee.

Babbel, Preply, Lingoda do that well at scale. Our learners get certified live faculty, a program manager that owns their case, and a digital platform on top — not the other way around.

Live faculty + platform
Not a global franchise

We don't have 500 cities and a call center.

Berlitz and Wall Street English do. We have 4 Italian campuses we have owned for 50 years, faculty we have trained ourselves, and the same HR contact person for every account.

Owned campuses, owned faculty
Not a vacation school

We don't sell weekly courses to tourists.

Linguaviva, ISI Florence and similar do that. Our enterprise programs run 12 to 36 months. Average client tenure: 11 years. Most accounts re-sign after the first contract.

Multi-year programs
IV. Hybrid Platform Live faculty · Digital reinforcement · HR dashboard
HR DASHBOARD

You see every learner. Every week. In one screen.

A single dashboard for HR and L&D. You know who is on track, who needs support, and which programs deliver. No more "how is the Italian course going?" emails.

  • For HR Track every learner — attendance, CEFR progress, engagement, all live. Quarterly PDF report signed by the program manager.
  • For learners Mobile app iOS & Android — daily micro-lessons and audio drills between live sessions with the tutor.
  • For IT SCORM / SSO / GDPR — deploy inside Cornerstone, Workday, SAP. EU data residency. SAML or Azure AD.
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What an HR director sees when they log in:
12
How many employees are learning
You see them all in one list, by team.
86%
How well they attend classes
You see who is falling behind, before it's a problem.
A2 → B1
What level they have reached
Measured against the European CEFR standard, every quarter.
PDF
One report to forward to your boss
Signed by our program manager. Every 3 months. No chasing.
Plus a mobile app the learners use every day — iOS & Android.
V. A Client Voice Pharma · 11 consecutive years
International Council has been our language partner for over a decade. They understand pharma terminology, they understand expat onboarding, and they deliver consistently across our Milan and Florence sites — in a way no global vendor has matched.
Head of Talent & Development Top-5 Global Pharmaceutical Group · Milan · Switzerland
Live session · Milan campus
VI. The Approach Four phases · One program manager

The Council Method.

Fifty years of refining how multinationals learn languages inside their own organizations. Four phases. One owner per program. Written outcomes — not vibes.

01Discover

Needs analysis with HR and line managers

We listen first. Roles, deadlines, business outcomes, learner profiles. Our consultants come from corporate, not academia.

02Design

Custom curriculum, industry-specific

Pharma terminology. Luxury craftsmanship vocabulary. Financial English. We build the syllabus around your work, not against a generic textbook.

03Deliver

Live faculty, digital reinforcement

Certified trainers on-site or online. Digital practice between sessions. Single program manager owning your account end-to-end.

04Measure

CEFR milestones, written reports

Quarterly progress reports to HR and L&D. Pre/post CEFR benchmarking. The Council Learning Guarantee in every contract.

VII. Use Cases Engineered against business outcome

Four business-critical moments.

Each program is engineered against a defined business outcome — not generic CEFR levels. We measure success in onboarded engineers, relocated executives, won deals, retained talent.

VIII. For Individuals Private courses · All levels · All languages

Private courses for professionals & expats.

Same faculty, same campuses, same standards as our enterprise programs — but built around your personal schedule and goals. Languages, test prep, executive coaching.

A · LANGUAGES

16 languages, four formats.

English · French · Spanish · German · Portuguese · Russian · Chinese · Japanese · Arabic · Turkish · Korean · Hebrew · Biblical Hebrew · Hindi · Polish · Italian diction.

  • Group — 10 lessons (20h) · €300
  • Private 1:1 — 10h · €490 (5% discount >10h)
  • Full immersion half-day — 20h/week (4h/day) · €1,055
  • Full immersion full-day — 35h/week (7h/day, lunch incl.) · €1,810
Share 1:1 with friends: €295 /2 · €230 /3 · €200 /4 (per person)
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C · EXECUTIVE

Business, Legal, Public Speaking.

Business English. Legal English. Public Speaking & Presentations. 1:1 coaching for senior managers, lawyers, founders, consultants who need to perform in another language at work.

  • Business English 10h 1:1€635
  • Public Speaking 10h 1:1€635
  • Legal English 10h 1:1€635
  • 10h with friend€395 per person
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IX. Proof Anonymized · Logos under NDA

Three results worth naming.

Anonymized outcomes from active enterprise programs. Full references available under NDA.

94%
Pharma R&D MilanReached B1+ in <9 months · 120 researchers
2.3x
Luxury FlorenceClient-facing English confidence pre/post
12wk
Big-4 TurinFrom kickoff to executive-ready
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Our Commitment

The Council Learning Guarantee.

If a learner does not reach the agreed CEFR milestone within the contracted timeframe, additional sessions are delivered at no charge until the target is met. In writing, in every contract.

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Built for enterprise procurement and IT.

50 years of contracting with multinationals means we speak the language of your legal, IT and L&D teams.

GDPR
EU data residency
SCORM / xAPI
LMS-ready
SSO
SAML / Azure AD
DPO
Internal Data Protection Officer

Let's talk about the language challenge inside your business.

A 30-minute call with one of our enterprise consultants. No deck, no pitch — we listen, we map your need, and we send you a written proposal within 5 business days. We onboard a small number of new enterprise accounts each quarter, on purpose.