Dr. Ed Canela is an international Human Resource and Organization Development expert specialising on Data Analytics and Data Sciences. As a trainer, consultant, or adviser, Ed has worked in more than seventy six countries in East Asia, Far East, South Asia, the Pacific Rim Territories, Africa, the Middle East, East and Western Europe, and the United States.

In the Philippines, he is engaged with Toshiba semiconductors, Business Process Organisations, Small Enterprise Research and Development Foundation (SERDEF), University of the Philippines Institute for Small Scale Industries and the Department of Trade and Industries. In Laos, Ed acts as a Senior International consultant with EDC on various data tracking and management systems since it started. He worked with ADB, UN agencies (UNIDO, UN-ESCWA, ILO, UNIFEM, UNRWA), US AID, MCC, Swiss Aid, World Bank among others. He served in the faculty of ILO-Turin Center (Italy), South New Hampshire University (USA) and (c) The Mekong Institute (Thailand).

Dr Rose’s background is a blend of diverse disciplines steeped in human and organization development. She has been immersed in educating, training, engaging in education and organisational development consulting and research activities and coaching. Most recent of which include her expertise on and advocacy of Positive Organization Development and Appreciative Inquiry. She is recognized in the Philippines as ‘guru of AI’ for spreading the knowledge and use of Appreciative Inquiry in different organizational processes. 

Dr Marie-Paul has a broad experience in team facilitation, leader development, training and education, team building programs in both employee (human resource) and agency sale settings, including relevant exposure in sales/agency operations and administrative/backroom system and appreciation of marketing in the financial services industry.

Dr Cameron Cliff is an expert in cross-platform development and audience engagement. With over 10 years of experience across different storytelling and learning industries, he has a career spanning immersive theatre, education, marketing, film, television. He is currently the Social Impact Manager for GO1, leading an initiative in HR and online learning that ties workplace learning to real, positive and tangible outcomes for workers. He's previously completed a PhD in audience engagement methodology and business strategy and created learning solutions for the United Nations, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, international feature films and children's reading applications. 

With over 20 years of experience in strategic HR, management of information systems, business restructuring and strategic management, for the last decade Phuong has led large-scale and complex human resource management and development, and organisational restructuring projects both in the private sectors, for many of the largest VNR500 companies, and in the public sector, including pioneering Training Needs Assessment and Analysis for the Office of the Government of Vietnam, HR Development and Change Management for the Ministry of Finance of Vietnam, among others.

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Under her unrelenting guidance and leadership, OCD Management Systems Consulting services have been consistently improved and adapted to meet the challenges of dynamic business growth of Vietnamese companies, making OCD one of Vietnam’s leading local consulting firms, gaining wide recognition among VNR 500 clients for service excellence and practical advice.

Felipe is a Human Resources Professional with over 12 years of experience working across the private sector and non-for-profit organisations including Halliburton, Oracle and the Australian Red Cross. Working across five countries including Laos, Australia, Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia, Felipe had extensive hands on experience implementing HRIS at a regional and country level focusing on supporting organisation to improve their internal HR processes and enhance employee life cycles.  Since 2016 in Laos, Felipe supported the Lao Government, INGOs and NPAs in their Human Resources Strategies; currently Felipe works as the iNGO Network Coordinator.