Top Leadership Speakers in the Philippines

LLOYD LUNA

He is the first and only Filipino to represent the Philippines in a global speakers summit. He is the founder and CEO of Stepback, a culture transformation company that helps leaders and organizations see the bigger picture in life and at work. He has been an Asian motivational leadership speaker for 14 years, delivering an average of 120 inspirational speeches annually. He has authored 16 books and is a radio and television talk-show host, songwriter, publisher, and serial entrepreneur.

The youngest board member of the Global Speakers Federation, which has 15 member-countries worldwide including the Philippines, Lloyd is the founder and president of the Philippine Association of Professional Speakers.

As author and originator of Stepback Leadership—the lost art of Filipino leadership— Lloyd teaches the practice of putting people at the center of leadership. Using his in-depth study of the building of the 2,000-year-old Ifugao Rice Terraces, which has been named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Lloyd believes that great leaders are shaped and defined by three crucial steps they make for their people: (1) stepping in to inspire, teach, and equip them; (2) stepping back to permit, evaluate, and mentor them; and (3) stepping up to explore, strategize, and innovate with them. He argues that these three steps are founded mainly on trust, collaboration, and humanity. Lloyd is the president of LLOYDLUNA Communications, the parent company of Stepback, Umbrella Speakers, Scroll Publishing, Skybell Clothing, and Peaches Music. He is the founder of the Registered Speaking Professional Institute of the Philippines, a certifying body that gives RSP designation to qualified professional speakers in the country.

Lloyd has been a resource speaker in over 1,000 conventions, conferences, and seminars has appeared in over 200 media interviews and has spoken on leadership to personnel of several major global companies worldwide, to key managers and staff of Philippine government agencies, and to students and faculty of various Philippine universities and colleges.

For his work as motivational speaker, Lloyd has been conferred scores of awards over the years, among them the Collegiate Ambassador for Peace award in South Korea, remarkable alumnus of Polytechnic University of the Philippines, and the 2010 SM Supermarket Brand Ambassador award. At age 31, he was nominated for the 2013 Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines award. In 2018, he was also nominated by Go Negosyo for the ASEAN Business Awards.

AL IAN BARCELONA

Ian is the Managing Director and Chief Awesome Officer of AIB Training Company. For a decade, his firm has conducted high-impact training, seminars and team buildings among top companies such as Puregold, Sysmex International, Paramount Life Insurance, Shell, Camella-Vistaland, Goodfellow Pharma, Pilipinas Hino, Philippine National Bank, Western Union, Reed Elsevier Philippines. He has also engaged with professional-reputable organizations which include the Philippine Association of Administrative Officers and Secretaries (PAS), Philippine Association of Medical Technologist (PAMET), League of Nurses & Nutritionists, Philippine NGO Support (PHANSUP), Philippine Insurance Agents Assoc. (PIFAAP), Rotary Clubs, Philippine Jaycees and the Philippine Marketing Association (PMA). AIB also conducts training to government agencies and institutions such as the Philippine Trade Training Center (DTI-PTTC), Department of Health, Philippine Army, Philippine Air Force, Department of Justice, Philhealth, DILG, and was a former consultant to the Department of Education. Through the years his team has helped develop youth and academic leaders, professionals, managers, and leaders on a nationwide scale.

He is also a partner speaker-consultant to training companies such as Breakthrough Leadership Management Consulting Company (the mother company of Salt and Light Ventures), Arete Consultancy, Ariva Academy and International Learning Styles Network. An effective motivational-inspirational speaker, addressing huge to small group audiences through conferences and public seminars annually. With his contagious energy and high-impact presentations, the audience would normally laud him for his unique style of delivery that is sure to mesmerize your feelings through his hilarious antics yet will disturb your thinking with his power-packed principles in the most AWESOME WAY! An educator by heart he has been adjudged as the former most outstanding college instructor of social-political sciences in Centro Escolar University where he took up AB Political Science and Master’s Degree in Southeast Asian Studies. His experience in public-community service and organizing skills led him to work in Congress as the former National Youth Director of CIBAC party-list and was later recruited in Malacanang as Technical Assistant-Presidential Staff Officer VI for Youth Affairs. A social thinker and opinion-maker expressing his analysis on current issues through the media as former host and co-producer of the TV show “PERSPECTIVES” with former Marikina Mayor Marides C. Fernando broadcasting on Global News Network (GNN) from 2009-2013.

JESSE FRANCIS REBUSTILLO, FPM, RSP

Jesse has extensive exposure in the field of Human Resource Management.

He earned his MBA degree at the Ateneo Graduate School of Business (sans thesis) and BSBA Management course, magna cum laude, from the Aquinas University, Legazpi City. He has a Diploma in Human Resource Development, Compensation Management, Labor Relations, and HR Planning and Acquisition from the Jose Rizal University.

He is a Management and Human Resource Consultant, Training Consultant, Seminar Facilitator and Speaker as he conducts programs on values, leadership, emotional intelligence, work life integration, team alignment, career development, job hunting as well as sales and customer service.

Jesse was the Corporate Human Resources Head of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. He shifted career to become the Inquirer’s AVP for Sales – Classified Advertising and then was promoted as AVP for Industry Relations. Jesse was the Editor of the Inquirer’s Working People Section and the Chairman / Editor of ECOP’s Philippine Employer Magazine.

He was the 2011 President of the Philippine Society for Training and Development (PSTD) and the 2016, President of the People Management Association of the Philippines (PMAP), currently the CFO of the Philippine Association of Professional Speakers (PAPS), and a member of the Board of Trustee of the Philippine Council of Associations and Association Executives (PCAAE).

He is now a happy retiree.

Currently, he is a Training and HR Consultant of the International Labor Organization (ILO), ECOP and PMAP and teaches HRM subjects at the Masters in People Management, Lyceum Graduate School and San Beda, Alabang. He was recently bestowed Fellow in People Management by the Philippine Society of Fellows in People Management.

Despite his hectic schedule, Jesse devotes his time as a diligent Special Minister of the Holy Communion at Our Lady of Remedies Parish in Malate, Manila. He is a music lover and knows how to play the piano enjoys bonsai, gardening and baking and to fill up some empty spaces in his appointment book, breeds forty-two dogs and a father to two adopted boys.

PMAJ Jackson Lopez, DHum, CPS® PSF® 

 PMAJ JACKSON MALANA LOPEZ, DHum, a Certified Public Speaker in Asian School of Speaking Arts and a Public Speaking Fellow in Lloyd Luna School of Keynote Speaking at the Public Speaking Institute, is a decorated law enforcement officer in the Philippine National Police. He is an expert on leadership and transformation.

For almost 20 years, he serves and protects the community by performing the basic functions of the PNP such visibility patrol, checkpoint operations, community engagements, crime prevention and solution through proper investigation and arrest of law violators, search, rescue and retrieval, and other police functions. His vision to further deepen his sense of patriotism and nationalism was evident when he engages himself in various national and international cause-oriented and socio-civic organizations. He believes that his vision will be achieved with the help of others who have the same heart as his. As a leader, he is an officer in the Global Academy for Human Excellence, a member of National Humanity Global Peace Federation, a member of the Global Men of Service and Honor Council, Deputy Commander of the World Anti-Narcotics Council, member of United Nations Economic Supreme Council, Vice President of Lions Club International, member of Eagles Club, and member of Philippine Association of Professional Speakers. His accomplishments extend beyond his professional achievements in the PNP when he was awarded with numerous medals, plaques, and recognition by the different organizations. He is a recipient of the World’s Best Humanitarian Award, World Peace Excellence Award, Medal of Excellence Award, Social Service Excellence Award and Outstanding Public Servant and Humanitarian Advocate Award. In 2019, his dream of rebuilding our country to have a better future was partly realized when he became one of the advocates of National Transformation in the PNP. He started a movement, which envisions transforming police officers into God-centered, family and people-loving, and service-oriented individuals through life coaching and mentoring. Relentless to serve humanity and determined to accomplish his mission, he believes that engagement, inspiration, and enlightenment as key to positive transformation can be achieved using the power of spoken word through public speaking and training. His advocacy of transformation doesn’t only cover the PNP but also other sectors of the society especially youth and educators who are truly instrumental in building the future of the nation. In 2022, before the Public Speaking Institute conferred on him the Public Speaking Fellow designation, the “Transformation Cop” developed his Owntalk® on how people can transform their lives through his relatable stories and compelling inspirational messages. He believes that transformation is constant and that people must be #HappyGoChange.