Wendy M. Pease
Wendy Pease is the Executive Director of Rapport International, LLC a full-service translation and interpretation company based in metro-west Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1987, she bought the business in 2004. The company offers foreign language translation and interpretation services in over 100 languages. Ms. Pease is also an expert on diversity training and international marketing communications.
Prior to this role, Ms. Pease served in senior management positions in international marketing and business development in the bio-pharmaceutical and marketing services industries. In addition, she founded and managed MacKenzie Connections, a medical-legal services company. She grew that company from zero to over $1 million in just three years.
Ms. Pease has an MBA from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College and a BA from the Pennsylvania State University in Foreign Service and a minor in Business Administration. She has lived abroad in Mexico, Taiwan and the Philippines. Ms. Pease is regularly published with articles on exporting and multilingual work forces. She also speaks on global communications, translation, interpretation and cultural considerations.
The story of how Ms. Pease became owner of Rapport International is an interesting one. In 2003, Ms. Pease had a high profile position as Director of World Wide Marketing for a publicly traded, global pharmaceutical services company. Although she had earned the position after graduating from Tuck with her MBA, Ms. Pease found that she was unhappy with the corporate world. She had a two year old son at home and was pregnant with her second child. Her office hours were long and her job required travel away from her family. It was not the work-life balance that she desired.
While on maternity leave, Ms. Pease received a blessing in disguise – she was laid off from her company. As she contemplated her next move, Ms. Pease realized that she wanted to control her own destiny. She wanted to find a work/life balance that gave her the ability to spend more time with her family while at the same time offered her a challenging career.
When a friend suggested that she buy a business, an idea was born. After doing a couple of months of research and negotiations, Ms. Pease purchased Rapport International, one of the most trusted professional translation and interpretation companies in the industry. For over 20 years, Rapport International has developed and maintained long-term relationships with clients guaranteeing consistency of the translations over time.
As Executive Director of Rapport International, this position is the culmination of all her prior experience. Ms. Pease majored in foreign service and spent years living abroad. She has excelled at sales training and has extensive sales experience. Ms. Pease recognizes that she loves connecting people through networks and has a fondness for languages and cultures. She is passionate about her work and enjoys figuring out with clients the best ways to handle the translation process to ensure the highest quality project.