Chiqui Escareal-Go

CEO and Chief Behavioral Strategist

Chiqui Escareal-Go is the President and CEO of Mansmith and Fielders, Inc., an advocacy-based marketing, sales, innovation, and strategy training and consultancy company. Mansmith and Fielders, Inc. is the first and only private company recipient of the Agora Award for Nation Building in Market Leadership. She heads the Mansmith Training Group, which includes Corporate Achievers Institute, Sensei Business Academy, and Day 8 Business Academy Foundation.

She is also Vice Chair of Waters Philippines, the market leader in the premium segment of home water purifiers, as well as the importer of the Noah ion cell cleanse.

She actively set up, organized, or strongly supported various advocacies both for business and personal endeavors such as the Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards and the Market Masters Conference, where 100% of net proceeds go to charity in the areas of education and youth empowerment. She is a founding trustee of MarkProf Foundation, Inc., which searches for and trains the Top 25 marketing management trainees in the Philippines and manages a P5 million Mansmith marketing scholarship grant for marketing professors (since 1997). She is also President of the Josiah and Carolina Go Foundation, which provides various scholarships and assistance to less fortunate young Filipinos.

Chiqui is an Executive Scholar in Marketing and Sales from the Kellogg Business School, Northwestern University. She also took the Advanced Management Program at IESE Business School (New York and Barcelona).

She is a graduate of De La Salle University with a double degree in AB Communication Arts and BSC Marketing Management (Accelerated Program). She earned her M.A. in English Language and Literature Teaching from Ateneo de Manila University and pursued her MA in Anthropology at the University of the Philippines.

Chiqui is the past Chair of the Women’s Business Council Philippines and is a Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD). She serves on the Board of Trustees of St. Paul University Philippines (Tuguegarao), University of St. La Salle, and St. Joseph School La Salle.

Among her notable awards and recognitions are: Outstanding Filipina Entrepreneur 2011 in the Trailblazer category, the Go Negosyo Women Enabler Award in 2014, and the ASEAN Women Entrepreneurs Network Award in 2015.

She has written or co-written 10 books on marketing, entrepreneurship, and anthropology. She conducts seminars on marketing, business execution, consumer behavior, marketing anthropology, people skills, selling skills, presentation and communication skills, appreciative inquiry, energizing sales teams through positive communication, leadership, and breakthrough service.