Kirsten Winkler studied european law before she changed her carreer to become language coach. She is the founder of several language related learning websites as DeutschHappen.com and LearnGerman4Free.com.

After 3 years of online teaching she decided to share her knowledge of the industry with other teachers and started to blog about education 2.0 at KirstenWinkler.com.

In June 2009 she founded her newest projects, the E-Teachers Academy which has the goal to make teachers education 2.0 ready by giving the the tools and information they need to be successful online and the E-Teachers Conference, a monthly online meeting of education 2.0 leader who will discuss about the way the industry will take in the future.