Bridging Confidence Gaps in Language Learning

• Why do capable ESL learners stay silent even when they have the knowledge and skills to participate?
• How can educators build confidence, belonging, and self-trust in the classroom?
• What if Human Readiness is the missing piece to helping learners find their voice, communicate confidently, and thrive beyond the classroom?

This webinar explores how Human Readiness impacts learner confidence, participation, and belonging in ESL classrooms. Using the VISIBLE™ Framework, educators will learn to identify barriers that keep learners silent. Participants will discover practical strategies to strengthen learner voice, self-trust, and communication skills while preparing learners for success beyond the classroom.

Points to be covered:

• Identify confidence and visibility barriers that limit ESL learner participation, communication, and belonging.
• Explore how Human Readiness supports learner resilience, self-trust, and confidence.
• Apply the VISIBLETM Framework to strengthen learner voice, identity, and classroom engagement.
• Discover practical strategies educators can use immediately to help learners communicate confidently and thrive beyond the classroom.

Webinar Type: Career Development

Categories: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion; Speaking

Teaching Sectors: All sectors

Participant Level: All levels

About the Presenter

Sheena Yap Chan is a Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly bestselling author, TEDx and keynote speaker, and one of the leading voices in Human Readiness: the emerging field at the intersection of confidence, visibility, and workforce transformation. She is the founder of the Human Readiness movement and creator of the VISIBLE™ Framework (Voice, Identity, Spotlight, Inner Work, Belief, Leverage, Elevation), the method she built to put that movement into practice, used by leaders, teams, and organizations to bridge the gap between raw talent and realized potential. Her work helps organizations answer the most important question in leadership: Are your people truly ready to show up, lead, and grow at the level they’re capable of?

Her Wall Street Journal bestselling debut, The Tao of Self-Confidence, was named one of the top 20 best self-confidence books of all time by BookAuthority. Her latest release, Bridging the Confidence Gap, is a bold call to make visibility and self-trust core leadership competencies, not soft skills, but strategic ones.

Sheena is the host of The Tao of Self-Confidence podcast, ranked in the top 0.5% globally with over 1.3 million downloads and 800+ interviews featuring CEOs, celebrities, and cultural icons across 180+ countries. She has delivered transformational keynotes and corporate programs for global brands including NASA, Live Nation, and UKG, and her work has been featured on NBC News, FOX, Mindvalley, and The Manila Times.

Sheena’s belief is simple: the leaders and organizations that will define the next decade won’t just be the most skilled. They’ll be the most human-ready.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheenayapchan/

Instagram: https://instagram/com/sheena.yap.chan

Website: https://sheenayapchan.com

Podcast: https://thetaoofselfconfidence.com/home

* Members must be a member of the TESL Ontario group on Tutela.

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