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Richard Vaughan


Richard Vaughan (born on November 9, 1951 in Houston,Texas) is a recognized English teacher, having created both radio and TV shows that serve as effective learning platforms with over 2.5 million viewers or listeners. He is also the chairman and CEO of Vaughan Systems, a language-training company famous for designing and successfully executing innovative language learning approaches and programs in Spain.

After growing up in Houston, Texas and Tulsa, Oklahoma, Vaughan graduated from the University of Texas with degrees in Spanish Language and Literature and Philosophy. He spent his third year of higher education in Madrid, Spain, returning there after graduation in 1974, where he began his career in English teaching. In early 1975, after a four-month experience with the Berlitz School of Languages, he began to free-lance in the teaching trade, which eventually led to the creation of his own company, Vaughan Systems, in 1977. In 1986, he obtained an MBA from the Spanish institution IESE.

Over the first 25 years, his company focused exclusively on the corporate training segment, providing standard in-class group and private language training in addition to residential intensive courses of varying lengths in different idyllic locations around Spain. During the 1990’s, his company convinced the corporate world to use the intensive, residential approach to training and to place less trust in the conventional in-company training schemes prevalent at the time.

Richard Vaughan continues, after 32 years at the helm, to manage Vaughan Systems, the company he founded in 1977.