Secret language business puts Australian innovator on global map
Parallel passions ensure multilingual company founder Tea Dietterich is always ahead of the curve. In this month's Portrait column, she tells AFR Magazine how her strategy is paying off in lockdown.
Tea Dietterich, who speaks six languages, says being multilingual means you can have different personalities. Paul Harris
Tea Dietterich’s idea of a good time is a warm bath with a glass of chilled sancerre and a grammar book. For any globetrotting chief executive, the bath and wine are perhaps not surprising. The book is the clue to what makes this CEO different. “I’m a complete language nerd,” says Dietterich. “And a tech nerd.”
Dietterich, 50, owns 2M Language Services. Since launching it in 1999 in Western Australia, she has grown the business to have 15 full-time staff and more than 1000 part-time and contract translators and interpreters in offices in Brisbane, Melbourne, Manila, Cordoba (Argentina) and Paris – and remotely across the globe.
