Consulting Above

Language and Educational Consulting Services

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 inquire more information on how we can best assist you for your language needs.

  • 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.

    Whether it be for excellent TOEIC scores, mastery of business, professional communication, or simply for personal enrichment and casual conversation.


    For individuals seeking to develop mastery of English for excellent communication in varied business contexts, we work together to customize specific learning objectives specific to each client’s industry, occupation, and interests, so they can build value into their organizations and services and become more contributive members to their personal and professional endeavors.

  • Conversation on any topic of interest, such as pop culture, politics, sports, video games, personal hobbies, and financial investment terms and concepts.

    Business specific communication, including cultural and context specific communication styles. Custom-tailored solutions, strategies for meetings, presentations, and satisfying any and all business communication needs.

    Expert guidance in vocabulary development. Expanding knowledge with synonyms, associated words, and concepts.

  • Self-worth, economic worth, professional confidence and value, and value of their products.

    At the level of institutional clients, it is our mission to encourage growth within the organization, growing past rigid or ill defined methods and practices, growing toward more innovative approaches to learning.

    Improve business to business and business to consumer communications. Educational programs, quality of instruction, rubrics and accountability measures that help ensure we’re able to assess learners’ output. Improvement, production, and gains are ensured for each learner.

  • 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.

  • Tokyo Metropolitan Government Project; Energy Grant Research

    Academic Research, Editing, and Specialized Language Learning Services.

    Hiring Practices, Resume Screening and Candidate Interviewing, sourcing talent

Our Team

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 your language learning journey with us today! Schedule a consultation or email any of our Consulting Above team members below to learn more information about how we can best assist you. Our team of dedicated professionals will be able to assist you with tailoring a unique plan that works with your budget and your individual language based goals.

phil@ca-consultingabove.com Philip Jerge

rich@ca-consultingabove.com Dr. Richard Hunt

warren@ca-consultingabove.com Warren Petredis

consulting_above@icloud.com. Consulting Above Offices