The trends shaping employee experience in 2021: Philippines

Lauren Huntington

EX Solution Strategy, Qualtrics Southeast Asia

Lauren is the EX Solutions Strategist for Qualtrics in South East Asia. She is a highly experienced organisational psychologist with over a decade of experience in working with C-suite and senior management across industries to enable their human capital strategies. She has previously worked at SHL (including during its ownership by CEB and Gartner) as well as Deloitte, prior to this she worked in internal HR roles. Lauren has a specific focus on emerging economies; she started her career in Africa, has been living in Asia for the last 3 years and is currently based in Singapore - having delivered on site to clients in sixteen countries. Lauren holds two Masters degrees, her first was in Organisational Psychology and her second was in Innovation Studies through a leading business school.

Marco Angelo B. Padernal

Director of Employee Experience, JG Summit Holdings

Marco is the Director for Employee Experience under the Corporate Human Resources group of JG Summit Holdings, Inc., where he drives continuous improvement initiatives on key moments that matter, including process re-engineering and digital transformation.

Marco has redesigned and simplified processes in various employee touch-points in Recruitment, Onboarding, Development & Engagement, and Separation, and also installed HR ticketing and self-service technologies. He helps different functional groups within their conglomerate address employee pain points by implementing programs and solutions using the agile methodology by subscribing to an iterative and incremental development & deployment. Part of of his mandate is to institutionalise continuous employee listening, and using data & analytics to shape employee experience design.

Marco has 12 years of Human Resources experience in various industries. Prior JG Summit, he was connected with Accenture, Inc. and Sky Cable Corporation and handled various roles in Organisation Development, Learning, Capability Development, Talent Acquisition, and HR Business Partnering. He completed his Bachelor's Degree in Management, minor in Strategic Human Resources Management at the Ateneo De Manila University. He is currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Business Administration at the University of the Philippines.

Elizabeth Nasol, DPM

SVP-HRMG
Energy Development Corporation

Prior to her appointment in EDC, she was the Vice-President for Corporate Human Resources of First Philippine Electric Corporation (First Philec) which is the intermediate holding company for all manufacturing investments of First Philippine Holdings (FPH).

Before joining the FPH family, she was the Vice-President for Corporate Human Resource of Roxas Holdings Inc. and all its subsidiaries, and Head of the Center for Excellence of Globe Telecommunications, Inc. She was also the Vice-President and Cluster HR Manager for Corporate Service Unit in San Miguel Corporation where she spent the majority of her professional career.

She graduated from the University of Santo Tomas with a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, completed the Executive Development Program of INSEAD Singapore in 1992, and finished the Strategic HR Management Program of the University of Michigan in 1995.

She has been involved with the Organisation Development Professional Network (ODPN) for quite some time. Aside from being Chairman of various committees in the past, she became the President of the organisation from 2006 to 2007 and once again from 2009 to 2011.

She was a member of the Board of Trustees - PMAP Foundation for 2020 and currently serves as a member of the PMAP Board of Trustees.

Thelma Meneses

Vice President and Chief People Officer
Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines Inc