Sonny Coloma

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SONNY COLOMA served as Communications Secretary under President Benigno S. Aquino III; Head of the Presidential Management Staff (PMS) under President Corazon C. Aquino; and Transportation and Communications Undersecretary under President Joseph Ejercito Estrada. He was the Don Jose Cojuangco Professor of Business Management at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) where he also served as Dean of Executive Education. He was President of the University of Makati. In the private sector, he was a senior executive of a commercial bank. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Southeast Asian Inter-Disciplinary Development Institute’s School of Organization Development, an MBA (With Distinction) from AIM and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the Philippines. He is the author of DIWA: Spirit-Led Organization in the Philippines and Pillars of Good Governance; and co-author of The Moving Train: Strategy, Organization and People; and KAPWA: Toward a Filipino Management Ethos.

Mary Jane Veloso: Saga of survival

December 18, 2024 4:15 pm

Mary Jane Veloso’s homecoming yesterday, Dec. 18, culminates a nearly 15-year saga that began in 2010 when, as a 25-year-old young mother, she was brought by local recruiters first to Malaysia, then to Indonesia, where she landed in prison and was convicted to die by musketry, after serving unwittingly as a courier of prohibited drugs.

Cardinal David: Affirming faith in the season of grace

December 11, 2024 11:14 pm

Witnessing Pope Francis place the red hat on newly consecrated Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David – only the 10th Filipino to receive the honor – prompted me to reflect on the challenge of promoting more vocations in our predominantly Christian nation.

EDSA People Power: Retrospect and prospect

December 05, 2024 1:57 am

Will there be another EDSA People Power Revolution?

This question popped up last week as the political temperature sizzled in the aftermath of Vice President Sara Duterte’s widely viewed video message following the detention of her chief of staff, on orders of the House quad-committee that was looking into the disposition of confidential funds assigned to her office.

Rogelio ‘Babes’ Singson: Person for others

November 30, 2024 11:34 am

Nicknamed Babes as he is the sixth and youngest child, former Public Works and Highways Secretary Rogelio Lazo Singson received earlier this week the Management Person of the Year award from the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP). 

Diwa-Kapwa: Life-changing epiphany on business as a road to God

November 21, 2024 1:00 am

Filipino Management Ethos: Pathways to Shared Prosperity, a forum presented by the Diwa-Kapwa Advocates, will be held today at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) in Makati City. As one of the convenors, I wish to share with readers why and how this forum came about.