About Global LT

Mission

To empower professionals and their families to live, work, and communicate successfully anywhere in the world.

Vision

To be the world’s expert and partner of choice in solution design for language, cross-cultural, and destination services.

History of Global LT

Founded in 1979, Global LT is a leading provider of language training, multicultural training, translation and destination services for global corporations. Our mission is to empower corporate employees to live and work successfully in the global marketplace by bringing together an international network of affiliated representatives, service providers, and professional staff to provide multinational companies, relocation providers, supplier networks and government entities with several tailored advantages.

Hortensia Albertini founded Global LT as a home-based language training company in 1979 with nothing more than a phone and a filing cabinet. More than three decades later, our company has grown into a leading global provider of language training, multicultural training, translation, and destination services, serving multinational businesses around the world and providing services on every continent, excluding Antarctica. Global LT remains headquartered in Troy, Mich., U.S.A., where the company was founded, with entities in Brazil, China, Hong Kong, and the U.K.

Hortensia was born in Cuba, immigrating to the United States with her family in the early 1960s. As a young adult immigrant, she worked to support her family by teaching Spanish to non-native speakers. Hortensia soon discovered that she had a gift for providing language training to the business community and was inspired to found her own language training company, Langua Tutor. The company’s first client, Ford Motor Co., has maintained its relationship with the company ever since.

Today, Hortensia’s daughter, Lisette Poletes, continues her legacy as an owner of Global LT — our company name since 2004. Lisette has been instrumental in adding new Global LT entities in countries across the globe. As a result, many employees consider the transition the culmination of Hortensia’s immigrant story: the realization of the American dream, followed by the passing of that dream to the next generation. Yet it is also a sign of our continued commitment to our clients and our employees, whom we serve through unwavering service, training, and support. As we look to the future, it is this commitment that will drive our success for decades to come

What sets Global LT apart

A single point of contact

Our unique business model brings together technology, resources, and above all leading global expertise in a single source, enabling organizations just like yours to improve turnaround time and save money by utilizing just one company for multiple business solutions.

Delivery anywhere in the world

Global LT supports our clients’ cultural and language goals anywhere in the world because we manage a large network of language experts, such as professional linguists, culturists, interpreters, instructional designers, project managers, editors, and translators.

Solutions in over 60 languages

Global LT offers a broad portfolio of expatriate support solutions, multicultural training and translation in the marketplace to help our clients succeed in a globalized economy.

A proven track record

We have been giving our customers and students high-touch, premier-level customer service since 1979. Likewise, our commitment to always supporting the needs of our clients and partners has been proven through our longstanding relationships and industry awards.