Who We Are
High-Touch Services by Expert Interpreters
CLI is dedicated to preserving endangered languages around the world through our work sponsoring the studies of linguist, author, and activist K. David Harrison. CLI sponsors 7000 Languages, a U.S.-based organization that creates free language-learning software for Indigenous communities around the world.
CLI is a woman-owned company. Our employees and subcontractors reflect our commitment to cultivating diversity by promoting the use of minority-owned, women-owned, veteran-owned, and emerging small businesses whenever possible.
Our organization is engaged in community initiatives throughout Phoenix and Portland. It’s common for our employees to be active volunteers as well, bringing their experiences back to CLI to make us a more rounded organization.
We focus on incredible flexibility in services, the best customer service in the industry, most skilled interpreters, and the widest range and highest availability of languages amongst our competitors.
We deliver this to you through constantly innovating our technology, never sacrificing security, and building relationships you’ll actually enjoy.
Language shifts, technology evolves and your needs change. We are always listening to our customers, and surveying industry trends to innovate better ways to serve you and your customers. We are always improving the interfaces for you to connect with interpreters, while guarding your data security as if it was our own.
When your needs change, CLI responds immediately and flexibly. Your organization’s requirements are the basis of the specialized plan we’ll create with you. CLI is always expanding the base of qualified interpreters to serve specialized industries from healthcare to utilities. We offer the widest range and highest availability of languages amongst our competitors. Challenge us to meet your need, you’ll find we rise to the challenge.
Kristin Quinlan, as CLI’s CEO, has earned her place as a leading voice in the field of language interpretation. Passionate as ever about equity in language access, Ms. Quinlan uses her leadership roles to lobby for positive improvements in the language services industry.
Kristin Quinlan – CEO, Certified Languages International
Continually recognized as a top workplace by Top Workplaces USA, Oregonian Top Workplaces, and Arizona Central Top Workplaces, CLI truly values employee satisfaction and well-being, earning numerous awards for cultural excellence based on third-party employee surveys. A woman-owned business, we have consistently ranked in the top 3 language service providers in the U.S. for remote interpreting, according to industry research firms CSA Research, Nimdzi, and Slator. CLI has also been included on the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing companies 8 times.
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