# 14 Leo Gomez

Leo is the founder of Learn your English (.net), as well as an ESL teacher, trainer, and entrepreneur.  Leo believes that individuals develop through reflection, experimentation, and learning from their mistakes. Leo and his business partners work to build a language community for both instructors and learners to become more autonomous and effective.

In this episode, we talk to Leo about his background, his own language learning, his experiences traveling and living abroad, the lexical approach, some interesting ideas for professional development, whether the teacher's role is to just give students information,  or to enable and empower them to use information productively, and other topics. Links to background info on some of the topics can be found on our BLOG.