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Maria Sheila Almira Torres Viesca (January 16, 1973) Personal Effectiveness Coach and Corporate Communications Guru. She is the founder and owner of TalkShop, the Philippine’s leading training institute for language and culture, and currently operates as its chief executive officer.

Biography
Sheila Viesca is a Personal Effectiveness Coach and Corporate Communications Guru. She is the founder and owner of TalkShop, the Philippine’s leading training institute for language and culture, and currently operates as its chief executive officer. TalkShop is the choice consultancy of international organizations and top 1000 firms in the Philippines, boasting of a roster of high caliber coaches and language trainers from different parts of the world, and is the only internationally affiliated, Civil-Service accredited, and ISO-certified training firm owned solely by a Filipino. Viesca launched TalkShop in 2000 as a requirement of her masteral program at the Asian Institute of Management. She then completed her Advanced Teaching certification in Toronto, Canada and from then on, has worked hand-in-hand with the Department of Education as the lead designer and trainer of national English programs to promote Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in the Philippines and help advance the proficiency of educators and non teaching personnel. She designed the Department of Education’s Comprehensive Language Competency Benchmark, which is now being used as the official guideline for the standard competency requirements of all education personnel.

As she took her doctorate in applied anthropology from the Asian Social Institute, she pioneered Integrated Language Teaching (ILT) in workshop designs, a training method that capitalizes on the fusion of the teaching methodologies of the West with the learning styles of the East. TalkShop programs have since grown immensely to address the training needs of students, executives, coaches, and educators who aim to acquire comprehensive training in communication, leadership, management, salesmanship, strategic planning, and personality development.

Viesca published her journals in Communication Excellence for ESL Learners and TESOL Teachers in 2004 and has trained over a hundred thousand participants on an individual coaching and classroom setting. In 2006, Viesca published Quintessence of Creative Writing in textbook and audiobook versions. She continues to advance human potentials through her style of designing and conducting workshops that has made it possible for authors to excel in public speaking and for speakers to thrive in writing. She is recognized as the country’s TESL specialist and personality development expert. In 2007, acknowledging the absence of depth in a number of soft skills training that the corporate market sorely needed, Sheila applied arts in her linguistic courses, placed emphasis on sensibility and mindfulness in her etiquette training and personality development programs, and incorporated personality profiling using the Enneagram and Jungian Archetypes in her programs on leadership and management communication. These efforts have placed TalkShop at the helm when it comes to customization of programs that help corporations define their mission-vision and uphold their core values as they develop individuals into becoming team players and effective leaders who are a constant source of inspiration and upliftment to those they work with.

To this day, Sheila is a firm believer in the unlimited potential of any person who has the desire to invest time and effort in both formal training and informal education. She devotes her vocation to designing and conducting programs that take individuals and corporations on a journey to continuous self-mastery. She continues to train coaches as TalkShop expands rapidly to cater to the requirements of various government agencies, private and state universities, international publishing firms, and United Nation Agencies in the field of Corporate Communication, Personality Development, Social Graces, International Etiquette, Salesmanship, Branding Strategies, Marketing, Strategic Planning, Leadership, and Management.

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