Some of the organisations I have worked with:
  • Blaufeuer
  • BundesInstitut fur Arzneimittel
  • C/O/N/E/C/T/A
  • Festo GmbH
  • Gallaher Group
  • NATO Partners for Peace programme
  • Philip Morris
  • Quadriga Beteiligungs und Vermoegens AG
  • Schenker & Co AG
  • The British Council
  • The offices of the President and Prime Minister of Lithuania
  • The Seimas (Parliament) of Lithuania
  • United Nations Development Programme
  • UBS
  • Verkehrsbüro

"Sheila gave me my confidence back. She was an English trainer, coach and supervisor all rolled into one for me. Altogether I can recommend her as a professional, perfect and free-spirited trainer."
Alex Baeck
Managing Director
Quadriga Beteiligungs und Vermoegens AG
Superfund Asset Management Beteiligungs AG


"Because of the demands of my job, I needed a specific type of trainer. When I met Sheila I was surprised and delighted to have found a trainer so quickly who was able to fulfil my needs. Not only did I look forward to every session (which had never been the case before), I was also taught new things with an easiness I had never thought possible.
Sheila detected my weaknesses instantly and knew how to adjust quickly to me and my problems - always proceeding sensitively and knowledgably even in difficult situations.
She is proficient in many areas. When you have reached a goal, you are looking for a new one so that you can continue being taught by her. It is an enriching experience and you can never learn enough. She is a motivator!
There are no limits to my enthusiasm concerning Sheila, the person and the trainer -she is reliable, analytical, flexible, sensitive, humorous. If I had to award points, she would definitely receive top marks."
Andrea Kastlunger
Carbones GmbH


"Sheila Purdy's way of teaching, her methods, are very natural, and especially adapted to the group and to the language skills of every single person. The focus on communication, discussions about real situations and the role plays were particularly good.
Sheila PURDY is not a 'normal' trainer.
She has an extraordinary gift to teach."
Mario Steiner
UN Observer


"I was a member of one of Sheila's Presentation skills courses in Vienna recently. One of the exercises was giving one of my old presentations to a group of people that played the role of buyer. To be honest I can tell you that about 60% of my presentation was experienced as interesting, but totally irrelevant. You can understand that I was shocked. The result was my change of thinking about how we should approach our clients.
I had expected this training would be mainly to improve our English and would keep to the basics of presentation skills. The opposite is true: we learned many skills in order to improve our message in any presentation, how to build a presentation, how to make it interesting and, most important, how to make your point and keep it to only relevant information."
Peter Pijnen
Gallaher Netherlands BV


"The courses were well prepared and professionally taught. Because the courses were so intensive, the students were able to improve their communication skills very quickly. In their feedback the students said that they had enjoyed the courses and had learnt a lot"
LTC G Schrimpf
Austrian International Operations Command.
Austrian Army


"Two years ago my English was limited to "hello" and "good morning". Then I met Sheila and in a very short time I improved my report writing to an unexpected level. This is a result of the teaching style of my trainer. She understood me as a person and we started to communicate in an unconventional way person to person, not grammar book and dictionary.
She is able to select the right teaching method according to the person and their skills."
M Stankovic
CTEC (Centre Technique Europe Centrale)
Lafarge, Vienna