Founder and CEO of Day Translations and a lifelong polyglot. A former hospital and legal interpreter whose entire career has been built around language, communication, and international business.
Founder & CEO
Founder and CEO of Day Translations and a lifelong polyglot. A former hospital and legal interpreter whose entire career has been built around language, communication, and international business.
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ean Hopwood is the founder and CEO of Day Translations, which he has led for nearly two decades into a global network of certified translators and interpreters that operates across 100+ cities and 500+ languages. He is a lifelong polyglot who speaks seven languages: English, Spanish, French, Arabic, German, Portuguese, and Hebrew.
His entire professional life has revolved around languages, communication, and international business. Long before he built the company, and while running it, Sean worked on the front lines of language access. He has interpreted in hospitals, interpreted for law firms, taught English to graduate students, and worked as a guidance counselor helping international students find their way into U.S. colleges.
That hands-on experience, sitting with the patients, attorneys, and students who simply needed to be understood, is the foundation of everything Day Translations does today and a big part of what sets the company apart. His writing here covers leadership, the language industry, and the future of cross-cultural communication.
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Expanding your business abroad is a lengthy, complex process. It involves establishing the right partnerships, understanding a new set of customers (and rules to play by), as well as adapting your product to new linguistic and cultural standards. But with the right resources, the right…
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Linguists, translators, and engineers writing on language, culture, and the craft of being understood.
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