Leading the Shift | Thriving in the Accelerated Future of Work

Thriving in the Accelerated Future of Work

September 30 | Thursday | 11:00 AM - 12:00 NN (PHT)

As we entered 2021 and started focusing on the shift from survive to thrive in a post-pandemic world, we raised the question whether the accelerated future of work that we have experienced over the past 18 months is the future of work that we want moving forward.

The shift from survive to thrive depends on an organization becoming – and remaining – distinctly human. This is not just a different way of thinking and acting. It is a different way of being that approaches every question, every issue and every decision from a human angle first.

This session aims to:

Explore how organizations are humanizing the future of work, by re-architecting work, unleashing the workforce and adapting the workplace. With a human focus, organizations are in a position to thrive - to constantly reinvent - on the back of perpetual disruption.

Nicole is an executive advisor on the Future of Work, passionate about making work better for humans and humans better at work. With more than 20 years of cross-industry experience in Information Technology Services, Talent Management, Human Capital Advisory and Mergers & Acquisitions, Nic works with businesses and governments to embed future of work vision into enterprise, business, technology and workforce strategies.

Nic regularly speaks at events and authors material for publication on the future of work topic. Most recently she co-authored The Shift from Survive to Thrive in the Accelerated Future of Work and Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends Special Report on The Worker-Employer Relationship Disrupted: If We’re Not a Family, What Are We?

Rashelle Cejo is the Vice President of Human resources for LexisNexis Asia and Reed Elsevier Philippines. She was the first Filipino hire of the organization and has the first-hand experience in building Reed Elsevier Philippines as a shared services company with over 4,000 employees in Manila and Iloilo. Her initiatives and leadership on Human Resources have contributed to REPH receiving various recognitions from local and international award-giving bodies with its fun, engaged and professional culture.

Shelle is a senior executive with proven record of notable performance establishing two major shared service in the Philippines. An HR professional with 20+ years of work experience covering different facets of human resources namely: talent acquisition, employee retention, labor/ industrial relations, performance management, learning and organizational development, compensation and benefits, and employee welfare/engagement. She has led and delivered Human Resources and Operational transformation initiatives in different industries namely hospital, pharmaceutical, business process outsourcing and shared services.

Nic is a Human Resource Executive with 44 years solid experience in Human Resources, 21 of those years in San Miguel Corporation (SMC), 5 in Kraft Foods International (KFI), and now 18 years with JG Summit Holdings, Inc. (JGSHI), one of the biggest and most diversified conglomerates in the country and the Pan-Asian / Oceania region. In JG Summit, he heads not only the overall HR function, but also Safety and Security and Third-Party Outsourcing. He partners with the Executive Committee and the Leadership Teams of the different Strategic Business Units on these areas. All HR Heads, Security and Safety Heads and Third-Party Managers in the Strategic Business Units functionally report to him. He was conferred the People Manager of the Year Award given by the People Management Association of the Philippines (PMAP) in 2007.

Through the years, he has coined several HR mantras that are circulating in HR circles. Some of these would be: “Behind every business issue is a people issue;” “Growing the business goes hand in hand with growing the people;” “HR is a vocation;” and “HR should be in the Boardroom.” Through these quotes, he clearly conveys the reverberating message that HR should be strategic partners of the business.

He calls the work that he does a vocation and the biggest achievement that he considers in his 44 years of HR experience is mentoring a significant number of HR professionals. He is now on his third generation of mentees. All his students would describe him as unceasing, overly passionate, extremely results-oriented, incredibly fast and with a golden heart.

Nic, in summary, has spent all his years of corporate life in pursuing his calling in his chosen vocation, which is, evolving the human resources function, and continuously raising its bar in both the domestic and foreign soil.

Gina Marina P. Ordoñez is the Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer for PLDT and Smart Communications where she drives the effective implementation of people strategies, employee services, HR business partnering and centers of excellence. Gina also serves as the MVP Group Vaccine Task Force Co-Chairperson where she leads and oversees COVID-19 vaccination planning and operations of employees and their families nationwide.

In Gina’s HR leadership role, she ensures a people-centric and qualitydriven environment across the company through optimized organizational structures, policies, processes and analytics. She participated in the development and execution of the PLDT Group Talent Management strategy, ensuring alignment with present and future business
requirements.
Gina joined the PLDT Group in 2016 under the Business Transformation Office (BTO) and later assumed the Smart People Group Head role before moving back to BTO in 2017 to head Process and Quality Management. Under the MVP Group of Companies, Gina was appointed Vice President
for Service Operations and Quality Management at Makati Medical Center. She also served as Head of Customer Experience for Consumer Banking
in Citi where she held various leadership positions for 16 years and where she was certified as a Six Sigma Black Belt professional.
Gina is a registered Corporate Coach and Quality Management Consultant who is certified to run coaching clinics. She has over 21 years ofexperience in People, Process and Quality Management leadership roles.