Our story began nearly 50 years ago when our father, Dr. Samuel Lee, came to Los Angeles as an international student wanting his piece of the American dream.
Despite graduating from one of the top universities in Korea, his inability to speak English English meant that he had to struggle for years as a janitor to support himself and his family while studying English during the day. He was all too familiar with that feeling of frustration and embarrassment because he couldn’t express himself clearly in English or feared he might say the wrong thing.
In time, he became a teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District, but his early hardships in the US were never far from his heart and mind. So, in 1990, he founded an English language school that would not only teach students English faster and more efficiently, but equally importantly, would help them unlock their potential and achieve their dreams through the power of English.
In fact, his vision burned so brightly that his daughter (Judy) and son (James) joined the school in 2011 to push the vision forward. Having come from very different professional backgrounds (law and marketing), they began to realize that there was something very wrong with the English language industry. Judy and James knew that the #1 goal of English language students was to speak English with confidence, because they had personally observed the heartbreaking struggle and suffering students went through to speak English fluently. But strangely enough, the English language industry had done nothing for over 50 years to meet this specific and urgent need.
They knew they could and had to do better. So drawing on over 30 years of English teaching expertise, years of puzzling over the problem and countless hours of research and development (leading to the groundbreaking performance science of Deliberate Practice), the Speaking Success System was born. And now that the entire planet is online, the Speaking Success System is available to transform English learners from all over the world into the fluent and confident English speakers that they desire to be!
So if you feel like you were meant to be more, to do more with your life, then let us help you achieve your full potential.