Sheila Viesca
CEO, TalkShop
COMMUNICATIONS GURU /
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT
LANGUAGE CURRICULUM DESIGNER
LEADERSHIP TRAINER
CROSS CULTURE COMMUNICATION TRAINER
PROGRAM DESIGNER AND LEAD FACILITATOR
FOREIGN SERVICE COMPETENCY TRAINER
MEADJOHNSON LEARN Program
CORPORATE IMAGE AND SOCIAL GRACES
DIPLOMACY AND PROTOCOL SPECIALIST
SOCIAL GRACES & ETIQUETTE COACH
PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS TRAINER

RESEARCHER/TEXTBOOK EVALUATOR/REVIEWER
DEPED: Instructional Materials Council Secretariat
TESL/ESL CURRICULUM DESIGNER
Method: Integrated Language Teaching
PUBLISHED AUTHOR
Quintessence of Creative Writing
English for Learners & Teachers
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Technical Writing
Diplomacy in the Workplace
Protocol Training
Personality Development
Customer Complaints Handling
DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY
Social Media Training
Events Planning & Management
Agility Workshop
Grammar Mastery
Technical Writing
Frontline Service Management
Problem Solving
Supervisory Training
Critical Writing
Handling Difficult Customers
Technical Writing
Presentation Mastery
FUJITSU TEN CORPORATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
Management Communication for Supervisors
Negotiation Skills for all Ranks
Grammar Mastery & Presentation Skills for all Ranks
ASIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
Management Development Program
ASIAN SOCIAL INSTITUTE
DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM
Foreign Service Training for Tourism Attaches
Competency Building for Overseas Deployment
DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM
Foreign Service Training
Comprehensive Competency-Based Training for Tourism Attaches
PHILIPPINE TOURISM AUTHORITY
Communication Excellence
Management Communication
DEVELOPMENT BANK OF THE PHILIPPINES
Management Associates Program
Business Writing for all Ranks
OVERSEAS’ WORKERS’ WELFARE ASSOCIATION (OWWA)
Stress Management for Overseas Attaches
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION
Inter-Intra Personal Relationship Effectiveness
Technical Writing and Speech Craft
Strategic Planning and Staff Retreat
UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND
SMT and All Staff Retreat
SMT Vision, Mission, Core Values Crafting
UNITED NATIONS FAO, ILO, UNAIDS, UNDP, UNFPA,
UNHCR, UNICEF, UNIDO, UNRC, WFP,
OMT Planning Workshop 2016 / 2017
FINANCIAL TIMES PUBLISHING
Personality Development and Social Graces
Management Development Program
Power Presentation and Speech Eloquence
Business Writing and Grammar Mastery
Executive Coaching for TV and Radio
Media Training and Social Media 101
Pageant and Panel Interviews
BUREAU OF THE TREASURY
Technical Writing Workshop
Leadership Training and Relationship Effectiveness
PJ LHUILLIER GROUP OF COMPANIES
Power-Up Communication for Managers
Corporate Writing for all Ranks
HITACHI JOHO INFORMATION SYSTEMS, JAPAN
Business English for Network Engineers
Business English for Project Managers
SMART COMMUNICATIONS
Etiquette & Communication Training for Point Persons
Grammar Mastery & Presentation Skills for Officers
Business Writing for Process Specialists
DEVELOPMENT BANK OF THE PHILIPPINES
UNITED COCONUT PLANTERS’ BANK
Business Writing for Consumer Bankers
Business Writing for Technical Managers
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
FOOD AND DRUG AUTHORITY
Technical Report Writing
Effective Power Presentation
Technical Presentation
Sheila Viesca is a Personal Effectiveness Coach and Corporate Communications Guru. She is the founder and owner of TalkShop 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 an 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 Masters in Entrepreneurship 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 that promote Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in the Philippines and help advance the proficiency of educators and non teaching personnel. She designed the Comprehensive Language Competency Benchmark of the Department of Education (DepEd), used as an official guideline for the standard competency requirements of all DepEd personnel.
As she took her Doctorate in Applied Anthropology from the Asian Social Institute, she pioneered Integrated Language Teaching (ILT) in workshop designs, a teaching 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 a 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 to 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 to her programs in leadership training and management communication. These efforts have placed TalkShop as a top choice 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 valuable team players and effective leaders who have a clear vision of how best they can contribute to the workplace and society.
She works closely in the capacity building and job preparation of the youth sector through the local government units and corporate foundations which sponsor scholars from different parts of the Philippines. In 2010, she was tapped by the Rotary Club of Makati Poblacion to spearhead the National Capital Region (NCR) Quiz Bee Competition Challenge, participated in by the majority of the public and private high schools from the 16 cities within the Metro Manila area. This metro-wide venture, along with the monthly newsletter she published to fortify the public information awareness, also intended to boost the national candidacy of then Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay who was a far third at the start of the election campaign. The 8-month intercity competitions and collaboration with the youth leaders, teachers, and school division heads resulted in greatly influencing the results of the 2010 election in favor of Binay who won the Vice Presidency by a significant margin.
She continues to train TalkShop’s coaches as the company expands to cater to the requirements of various government institutions, private and state universities, international publishing firms like Financial Times, and various agencies of the United Nations, and NGO’s in the field of Corporate Communication, Cross-Culture Awareness, Personality Development, Social Graces, International Etiquette, Salesmanship, Branding Strategies, Marketing, Strategic Planning, Leadership, and Management.
She is currently the exclusive Foreign Service Trainer of the Department of Tourism who designs and conducts the 7-day module to prepare the Tourism Attaches and Officers for international posting.
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 much of her time to designing and conducting programs that take individuals and corporations on a journey to continuous self-mastery.
Specializations:
Public Speaking
Management Communication
Accent Training and Telephone Skills
Corporate Image and Social Graces
Grammar Mastery
Technical Writing
Creative Writing
Protocol Training
Stress and Time Management
English for Educators
Leadership training
Negotiation Techniques / Salesmanship
PROGRAM DESIGN
WORKSHOP FACILITATION
CURRICULUM EVALUATION
Memberships and Associations:
Association for Talent Development (American Society for Training and Development)
Philippine Society for Training and Development
Certified Coach, John Maxwell Team of Trainers USA
Regional Representative, International English Education Research Association
District Trainer for Luzon, Toastmasters International District Council (2016-2017)
Area 14 Governor, Toastmasters International Division Council (2015-2016)
President, Executive Toastmasters Club (2013-2014)
Chief Operations Officer, HousingInteractive Property Management Group
Makati Business Club (2013-Present) * Rotary International – Rotary Club of Makati Poblacion (2004-2016)
Archdiocesan Liturgical Commission (2000-Present)