Marta Arruela-Oliveira

São Paulo, Brazil

  • Born in the most wonderful city in the world, Porto, in the irreverent 80s
  • The 90s were spent learning about music, art, project designing and all things related to architecture
  • The new millenium brought a new thirst for languages and managing - teams, businesses, money...
  • First job ever, besides organizing dad's office documents and helping with employee payroll, was to teach turists all the wonders of Port Wine, specially the taste of the different crops - together with selling as much as possible and making a fine income for a teenager
  • Worked for a Portuguese high-end women's fashion chain, managing the store's team and selling absolutely gorgeous clothes to stylish women
  • Got a Bachelor of Arts with Honors degree in International Business with Spanish from the Westminster Business School - University of Westminster, in the decadent city of London
  • During the period at university shown strong capacities for leadership so became the head and spokesperson of many work groups
  • Advising teams on the best course of action became a natural sense of being and got relevance for such
  • Got a CERTA certificate for learning all about managing business organizations in Spain at Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • Also gained fluency in Italian, studying it aside of the degree at the Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities - The University of Westminster, only to lose it while living under the spanish language throughout a year
  • In 2010, after graduating, returned to Madrid, out of love for the "living to the fullest" motto of the city
  • From 2010 to 2011 managed a team of 42 consultants working throughout the world, allowing for more travelling and knowledge gain, both in linguistics and cultural working differences
  • Getting involved in social and animal welfare causes meant that a 9 to 7 office job had to be obtained, so managing people working in other companies became a permanent position
  • A desire to challenge knowledge and so, reality, resulted in a move to Brazil, where providing language consulting to corporations came as a natural path as breathing the impossible hot air of the place