Nicky Hockly is Director of Pedagogy of The Consultants-E , an award-winning online training and development organisation. She has worked in the field of ELT since 1987, as a teacher, teacher trainer and consultant, both online and face-to-face. She is an international plenary speaker, and gives seminars, in-service workshops and teacher training courses for practising language teachers all over the world.

Nicky writes materials for both EFL course books and online learning, and she has written many articles on education and online learning (see her Publications). She writes a regular column in English Teaching Professional Magazine and in the English Language Teaching Journal (ELTJ), on technology for teachers. She has co-written several methodology books on the application of new technologies to language teaching: How to Teach English with Technology, and Learning English as a Foreign Language for Dummies (both with Gavin Dudeney), Teaching Online (with Lindsay Clandfield), and most recently Digital Literacies (with Gavin Dudeney and Mark Pegrum). She has published an e-book, Webinars: A Cookbook for Educators (the-round.com), and she maintains a blog called E-moderation Station.

Nicky lives in Barcelona, Spain, and prides herself on being a technophobe turned technophile.