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.