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A man raised his hand, “We really appreciate these demonstrations in English, but what about doing it in our language?”   I replied, “That’s a great idea. You and who?” *Everyone laughs* A few moments later he and another man were in front of the room doing a demonstration of one of the translation testing… Continue reading A Trainer’s Happy Place

Thank you all for your prayers for Benjamin and our family as he traveled to meetings in Turkey with the Russian team. Everything went smoothly and he is back home now. The meetings were very profitable and positive. It was great for members of our geographically distributed American team to meet the even more geographically… Continue reading Profitable Trip, Safe Return

Travel:Last week Benjamin “got to” run Zoom for our twice annual all-staff meetings in Orlando. The first day I set the small group rooms to automatically kick people out after a couple of minutes, because I thought that was what the speaker’s schedule said. It was actually supposed to be 15-20 minutes of one-on-one time… Continue reading Travel, Travel, but No Move Yet

Shortly after arriving in Dallas, Benjamin had a meeting with part of the team of Russian speakers that he’ll be working with for the next few years. Based on that meeting, everything looks like a go for us to move to Ukraine as soon as all the logistics get worked out. UPDATE Feb 17: Obviously we are waiting… Continue reading Where in the World are the Wrights Wandering?

If this email looks a lot like our last one, it’s because we may soon be headed to Eastern Europe We’ve been telling everyone, “In the second year of Benjamin’s Consultant in Training (CiT) program we’ll be headed back overseas to be near projects.” However, somewhere along the way we kinda stopped believing that as the first year… Continue reading Passports!