Discussion Leaders
Tully Moss
Tully Moss is an experienced coach, consultant, and facilitator of leadership development programs.
The leadership development programs he facilitates are based on the unparalleled materials of Harvard Business School. He is well-versed in Harvard’s approach to business education: he has been trained at Harvard Business School, and he has led over a thousand Asians in participant-centered, executive education programs that have used Harvard materials. His facilitation work has covered issues such as leadership, innovation, marketing, corporate strategy, and digital disruption.
Tully is also a Harvard Business School case study author, having co-written a case study on the Philippines, entitled, “The Republic of the Philippines: The Next Asian Tiger?”
Tully brings to his facilitation work a rich perspective developed from over thirty years of management consulting. He has consulted in a broad array of services and manufacturing industries on issues such as business unit strategy, marketing strategy, organizational effectiveness, and mergers and acquisitions. He is skilled at improving customer-centricity through fact-based assessments of market positions, segmentation opportunities, value propositions, and sales and distribution channel opportunities.
In addition to his consulting and his case study facilitation work, Tully is an accomplished coach, having received certification by the International Coach Federation and having been certified by both Zenger Folkman and The Leadership Circle as a coach for 360-degree assessments.
His clients have included major Asian, European, and North American corporations. Tully received his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Finance and his bachelors, with honors, from Williams College. After graduating from Williams, he taught at Lingnan College in Hong Kong under a YALI grant.
Maria Carolina Dominguez
Carol Dominguez is the President and CEO of John Clements Consultants, Inc., one of the Philippines’ leading providers of human resources and world-class leadership development services. Under Carol’s management, John Clements Consultants, over the past fifteen years, has quadrupled its revenues.
Carol’s overriding passion is to help her country. She dearly would like to see the Philippines rise in global stature and significance.
Under Carol’s leadership, John Clements Consultants has become the partner-of-choice for premier providers of leadership development services. Those partners include Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), one of the world’s foremost providers of business education and leadership development services, and Zenger Folkman, a premier provider of 360-degree assessments.
Before joining John Clements Consultants, Carol was an officer of Citibank, where she worked from 1985 to 2001, first in New York City, followed by assignments in London and Milan.
In 2002, Carol returned to the Philippines to assume leadership of John Clements Consultants.
Carol graduated cum laude with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of the Philippines. She holds a Masters of Management Degree from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Evanston, Illinois. Taking to heart her belief in the power of education and training, Carol applied for and was accepted into Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program, from which she graduated in 2012. She also co-authored a Harvard Business School case study on the Philippines, entitled, “The Republic of the Philippines: The Next Asian Tiger?”
Carol is an independent Board member of Insular Healthcare, director of the Harvard Alumni Association, member of the Harvard Business School Alumni Board, a Board of Governor of the Management Association of the Philippines, a founding member of the Filipina CEO Circle (FCC) and a board of Trustee of FTW (For the Women) foundation. Carol is an avid yoga enthusiast and instructor. She has also become a dedicated golfer. When that isn’t enough, she loves skiing in the mountains of Japan, Europe, and North America.
Alicia Rita Morales
Alicia Rita L. Morales is the Managing Director of the John Clements Leadership Institute. Alicia has developed leadership programs for over 10,000 senior leaders and high potentials from leading multinationals and regional conglomerates in Southeast Asia. Concurrently, Alicia is the first woman Independent Director of publicly listed First Gen Corporation elected to the board since 2018. She is also an Independent Director of BPI Securities Corporation as of February 2020.
Previously, Alicia was the youngest Chairman of the Philippine Stock Exchange for two consecutive years and an active director for five years. She was then concurrently a Director of the Securities Clearing Corporation of the Philippines and a CEO of a top brokerage firm for nine years. Prior to that, she worked in Hong Kong for five years as Managing Director of a deposit-taking company in Hong Kong and a Director of an investment company. Before that, she was an Assistant Vice President for a subsidiary of a Southeast Asian conglomerate in Hong Kong, handling corporate finance and corporate banking accounts in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Thailand and Indonesia for three years. She had trained with multinational banks in New York and had audit internships in Stockholm, Sweden and Cologne, West Germany.
She garnered The Outstanding Women in Nation’s Service (TOWNS) award for the category ‘Business-Stock Exchange’ in 2004, and the Triple A Award from Maryknoll/Miriam College in 2014. She is a member of the International Coach Federation, a certified coach of Zenger Folkman, and a certified discussion leader of the Harvard Business School. Ms. Morales is a certified public accountant with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Accountancy from the University of the Philippines (1984) and an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, with a triple major in Finance, Marketing and Economics (1990). She is also a graduate of the Advanced Management Program from the Harvard Business School (2014) and the President of the Harvard Business School Club of the Philippines (2018 – 2020) and Trustee and Treasurer of the Harvard Club of the Philippines Global (2020-2022).
Alexandra Lamb Moran
Alexandra is currently Business Development Director and a Discussion Leader for the Corporate Learning Division of John Clements Consultants, Inc. (JCCI). Prior to joining JCCI, Alexandra was the Country Head and Business Development Director of Renoir Consulting, a boutique implementation consulting outfit, responsible for the Hong Kong and Philippine markets, developing and delivering tailor-made business improvement programs for clients from a diverse range of industries.
An extensive part of her career was spent as a senior executive and leader in the financial services industry in New York, Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific Region, for the Republic Bank of New York and HSBC. She served as Vice President of the HSBC Private Bank in Hong Kong where she WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR private banking control, compliance and risk functions. Alexandra was also Vice President of the Republic Bank of New York in New York and Hong Kong, working primarily in Private Banking Operations and Systems. Alexandra graduated with honors from the St. Mary’s College in California with a BS in Economics and Business Administration. She has also taken courses in International Banking and Finance from Richmond College in London, England. Alexandra has been trained in the Art and Craft of Discussion Leadership, developed by Harvard Business Publishing, and is a certified Executive Coach of Zenger-Folkman and the International Coaching Federation.
Grace Allas-Alcid
Grace is a doctoral candidate in the Adult Learning and Leadership (ALL) program at Teachers College of Columbia University in New York City. She is currently the Graduate Assistant for the Program Head of the ALL program. Grace has completed all her course work and is in the process of starting her dissertation research which focuses on women in transitions. She is also part of a research team that is looking into incidental and informal learning in the clinical learning environment.
Grace was the Director of Learning and Development at John Clements Consultants, Inc. and continues to be involved in designing, implementing and facilitating corporate learning and development programs on a consultancy basis. Her goal is to help others become more effective leaders and managers through the programs as well as serve as coach or mentor them through their leadership journey.
Grace worked in marketing investment management services for Lazard Freres and Sanford Bernstein in New York City. She holds a Master of Arts in ALL from Teachers College of Columbia University, a Master of Business Administration in Financial Management from Pace University in New York City and graduated from the University of the Philippines with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Research. She is a Certified Facilitator and Coach for the Zenger Folkman Extraordinary Leader program.
Michael Cannon
Michael is the Executive Vice President of ADCEM Teleconstruct Corporation. He has trained professionals for over 30 years in a wide range of subjects. These range from leadership, innovation, executive presence and public speaking, technical subjects, and even adventurous ones. He has travelled the world and led discussions on the impact of the multicultural workplace and also assisted executives with training on the impact of culture on business development in China. Out of 600 facilitators and with voting from over 100 countries, Michael was awarded as the Best Trainer in 2008, having achieved the highest ever evaluation scores for a multitude of training courses he created and ran worldwide.
Michael has worked for the British Government and worked with a large number of the leading business organizations around the globe. He holds a degree in History and a Cambridge CELTA amongst many other qualifications. Michael is an accredited discussion leader of John Clements Leadership Institute.
Kevin Lynch
Kevin brings over 30 years of leadership and management experience in addition to his coaching acumen. Presently, he is the President and CEO of HC Mutual Building and Loan Association. Before that, he was the President/CEO of CitiFinancial Philippines and Citibank Savings Philippines, and has recently been the Business Director for Consumer Finance at PBCOM. Having had full responsibility for these entities, he shares his practical hands-on experiences to lend to the discussion.
Kevin underwent training with the International Coaching Federation with over 300 logged hours of practical coaching. He was an Outward Bound instructor and served in the United States Navy. He has a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Connecticut in Political Science. He also has a Certificate from De LaSalle University in Corporate Governance.
Kevin has resided in the Philippines for more than 17 years. He is a single parent and proud father of one daughter, Danielle Jean Lynch, who is “half-Philippine, half-American, and half-World.”
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Joel Schapero
Alex Siegel
Alex Siegel is a native of New England where he grew up on a dairy farm. His first jobs were picking apples, shoveling manure and baling hay. While in high school, he earned his Eagle Scout award and was awarded a full scholarship to an exclusive boarding school for his last two years of high school.
Alex went to college at the University of Chicago where he studied Economics and in his spare time engineered the takeover and management of the country’s largest Student Federal Credit Union with assets in excess of $3 million.
After college, Alex worked internationally as a Management Consultant supporting senior management teams of companies during times of change – post-merger integrations, turn-arounds and privatizations. His work brought him to the Czech Republic and Central Russia. He then went to Northwestern University where he studied at the Kellogg School of Management and the McCormick School of Engineering earning his MBA and Masters of Engineering Management.
Following his graduate work, Alex returned to consulting where he led multinational teams around the world working on some of the largest and most successful business integration transactions in Wall Street history as well as spending time working on improving the extraction of precious metals and other resources in far flung places such as Africa and Latin America. Alex then joined a private equity team to turn around and sell a capital equipment manufacturer and, in so doing, learned what it was like to do the work, and not just consult it.
After the successful sale of the manufacturing business, Alex started his own Analytics and Consulting firm, Applied Analytics. He then joined a Fortune 150 diversified manufacturing firm based in the United States. His first assignment was as Vice President of Operations of a business unit with responsibilities for manufacturing in the United States and Mexico. After successfully turning around his US business, Alex was assigned to Manila in 2011 to assume responsibility for a team of 350 people supporting Finance, Marketing, Order Processing, Technical Support, and Human Resources. He grew the team over 500 people and improved retention, engagement, and fun.
In late 2016, Alex joined a Buffalo New York-based manufacturing firm as their head of International Sales and Business Development. In his first 18 months with the company, the International team has been able to increase Internatinal sales by over 30% by improving channel partner support programs, and working on focused key and target account plans. While based in Manila, Alex’s team covers the world and he travels extensively to support the development of his teams and support customer engagement.
Alex is also active in the Boy Scouts of America and serves in the Board of Directors of the Far East Council which spans the globe from China to New Zealand and everything in between. In addition to his board duties, Alex trains Scouts and Scouters throughout the region on servant leadership skills.
Alex is a frequent speaker to groups on Quality, Lean, Six Sigma, Change Management, and Leadership.
Alex makes his home in Manila, married to noted local architect, Catherine Saldana.
Caesar Parlade
Caesar is a Partner for Digital Transformation Services for Reyes Tacandong & Company, the Philippine affiliate of RSM Global. Immediately prior, he was Chief Operating Officer of ANZ Global Services and Operations (Manila), Inc. He has worked in various executive positions, including General Manager for Deutsche Knowledge Services, Pte. Ltd., Controller for Deutsche Bank AG, Manila, and Executive Vice President of the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation and the President of the Philippine Depository & Trust Corporation.
A CPA, Caesar earned his undergraduate degree in Business Administration and Accountancy at the University of the Philippines, holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Management from the Netherlands International Institute of Management RVB, participated in the Accelerated Development Program at the London Business School, and is a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow in Banking at Boston University.
