Kathleen K. Diamond (IES Abroad Nantes| 1966-67)

Kathleen Diamond is a consultant, entrepreneur, and business leader in the language services industry. In 1979, she founded Language Learning Enterprises, Inc. (LLE®), a full-service language company based in Washington, D.C. She is recognized as an early pioneer in Telephone Interpreting, launching LLE-LINK in the 1990s. Over the next two decades, under her leadership, the company grew from a sole proprietorship to a dynamic, multimillion-dollar corporation, serving a wide range of clients, in both the private and public sectors, across the United States, and worldwide. In 2009, Kathleen negotiated the sale of LLE to CyraCom International, a language services leader in Tucson, AZ.