Skill Spiral

Founder and CEO

InvestEd Philippines

There are 30 million under-resourced youth in the Philippines who can’t afford higher education and upskilling to move up in life. Due to their risky situation and lack of collateral, young but high potential dreamers are considered unbankable by formal financial institutions. Moreover, with less jobs available due to the pandemic, the youth entering the labor market for the first time will be at a great disadvantage competing with older, more experienced jobseekers. In short, the future of young Filipinos is presently a game of odds. InvestEd exists to change this unfair reality. 

InvestEd envisions a world where every young dreamer has no barriers to success. Our high tech, high touch human development program provides underresourced youth with capital for education, life skills coaching, and a supportive community.

A globally awarded impact business, InvestEd has helped thousands of low-income Filipino youth from 300+ schools increase their income and navigate success in a fast changing world. A landmark invention by InvestEd is its Data-Driven Risk Engine- a proprietary methodology that de-risks a young person's life. To-date InvestEd has raised more than 125 Million pesos from impact funders.

Co-Founder and President

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto

Project Manager

➢	Co-authored InvestEd’s first marketing strategy and business model; authored and facilitated the startup's student training program

*March 2016 - the date of joining the founding team and Invested was incorporated five months later

Co-Founder and VP-Product

UofT Hatchery

Project Manager (MBA Intern)

NutriAsia

The NutriAsia Group is the mother company of Del Monte Asia Pacific.

➢	Managed the profitability of billion-peso, heritage brands; ensured the financial success of new brands and brand extensions through profit projections

➢	Chaired the Organizational Development Committee (in charge of projects related to training, career development, norm setting, etc.)

➢	Led the internship program and mentored five interns who then received job offers from top management

Controller for New Products and Innovations

Globe Telecom

Globe is one of the leading provider of telecommunications services in the Philippines (50% market share).

Customer Life Cycle Management and Loyalty (Broadband)

➢	Created Tattoo Plus Rewards, the first rewards program in mobile broadband, aimed at extending subscriber tenure and stimulating reloads; Handles retention and loyalty of mobile broadband (Tattoo Prepaid and Postpaid)
➢	Managed other strategic and high-development projects specific to subscriber life cycle and experience

Revenue Growth Management (Mobile Prepaid)

➢	Successfully raised spending on local and international calls of inactive users leading to higher revenue
➢	Crafted revenue-boosting campaigns for Globe Prepaid and TM subscribers by conducting research and analytics to accurately understand customers’ usage behavior

Product Manager

Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines

Financial Analytics for Major Capital Investments

Senior Financial Analyst

Mitchell Madison Group

Sales Data Analytics, Market Sizing and Strategizing and Inventory Management Systems Development

Business Analyst

Thomson Reuters

Financial Performance Analysis of Top Multinational Companies; System Updating of Key Business Information

Business Intelligence Intern

Resume for Bold Career Moves | Hiring Manager Perspective | 2X Founder

Some places look so stunning that they reset my internal scale of what matters.

Cappadocia did that for me. 🇹🇷🌄

It reminded me why I work.

To witness wonder. 

To earn a life I can actually feel.

To share it with people I love.

Ro Replan, MBA

Coaching Fellow Executives from Career Transitions to Leadership Success ⦁ Evidence-based Strategies ⦁ 10+ Years of Hiring and Leading Experienced Talent

Many of you reading this will eventually lose (or keep) your job because of one thing: politics.

I was reminded of that sitting here, in front of this iconic site.

Once a cathedral. Then a mosque. Then a museum. Then a mosque again.

Its walls didn’t move, but its purpose kept changing --- depending on who held power.

The workplace isn't so different.

Structures and systems rarely move.

But deep within, alliances, priorities, and lines of favoritism shift constantly.

Politics isn't the issue - it  never leaves organizations.

But those who ignore it often do.

This poster perfectly captured my Monday morning energy.

The job doesn’t change.

The inbox definitely doesn’t change.

Only my caffeine level does.

It dictates how much BS I can tolerate with a straight face. 😂

If you’re already on Cup #2, you’re not alone.

We’re all powering through.

Fall is my favorite season to hike.

The leaves don’t change all at once.

For a while, everything looks the same.

Then one week, almost overnight, the whole landscape shifts.

I’ve realized careers move the same way.

You can be putting in the work for months (or years) with no dramatic signs.

Then suddenly, one door that used to stay shut finally opens.

Not because of sheer fate, but because all your work finally became visible.

So keep going... your 'suddenly' could already be underway.

Over a third of my clients now are cross-border professionals.

And yes, they can be the hardest group to coach.

Not because we’re matching skills with a new market.

Not because we’re navigating different labor laws.

Not even because of the endless cost-of-living math.

The real challenge comes from what they often overlook - the daily-life conditions that support job performance:

• Can you handle real loneliness?
• Can you function without your default comforts? (Someone once cried to me about missing halva.)
• Can you sustain the mental load of constant language gaps?

In these cases, our coaching shifts from pure career strategy to "life architecture."

Because if living abroad taught me anything, it's that our skills can travel...

But the environment dictates how well they show up.

Going from Turkey to Croatia, I didn’t expect a lesson.

It took me a few days to realize that “ćevapi” and “kebab” share the same roots.

The only reason it clicked was remembering that in Turkey it’s spelled “kebap.”

Slightly embarrassed, I just turned the moment into curiosity.

And spent the next hour reading about how cuisines traveled long before national identities existed.

(Turns out, Pilaf and Plov are related, too! 🤯) 

It’s funny that the more I travel, the more I realize how little divides us.

I barely worked today. 

Then at the last minute, I decided to watch Wicked: For Good.

And unlike most people, it’s not the songs that pull me in. 

It’s the maturity of the themes beneath the glitter:

📜 The power of narrative. 
✨️ The illusion of “good” versus “evil.”
🙏 How people don’t just seek truth; they seek someone to believe in.

Watching it reminded me of something I often see in workplaces:

People aren’t rewarded for being right.

They’re rewarded for being believed.

Reputation outruns competence. 

Narratives outrun facts. 

And alliances outrun effort.

So, if you’ve ever been puzzled by office politics… Wicked explains more than most leadership books.

Happy Friday.

taplio

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