SPEAK’s replication model is similar to a social franchising, where SPEAK shares the brand, tools and knowledge and provides support to the SPEAK founders in exchange for a starting fee and a small royalty on revenues.

Commercial franchising has the goal of generating profit whereas a social franchising, while creating employment, has the goal of making a positive impact on society.

The following characteristics are important when considering the city where you want to start a SPEAK chapter: cities where diversity is a reality, where there are migration flows and where more than 6% of its residents are international.

During your first weeks as a SPEAK founder, you will take part in an onboarding training consisting in a combination of videos, documents and tools to help you master all the information you need to manage your SPEAK chapter. You will also have a dedicated point of contact who will meet with you to make sure you have everything you need to be successful, as well as access to SPEAK’s management platform where you will see the activity in your SPEAK chapter in real time, as well access to tools to create and manage your language groups and cultural exchange events.

After the application process, SPEAK founders immediately start working on building partnerships and usually organize the first language groups and cultural exchange events within 6 weeks.

We have a dedicated page here that explains the different steps of the application process to start a SPEAK chapter.

This will be a trial period of up to 6 weeks where we can assess the viability of opening SPEAK in your city. During this period, SPEAK will support you through your first steps and challenges as a potential founder. Once all the steps and challenges are met, we will close the agreement for your SPEAK chapter.