Discussion Leaders
Grace Allas-Alcid, Ed.D.
Grace works for John Clements Consultants, Inc. as its Learning and Development Director. She is involved in corporate learning programs for internal and external customers as a curriculum designer and discussion leader for developmental programs for different levels of employees. Her goal is to help individuals become more effective in their roles as well as coach and mentor them so they can achieve their goals.
Grace recently completed her Doctor of Education degree from Teachers College of Columbia University in New York City. Her dissertation research focused on faith and transitions in a community of middle-aged women. She is expanding that research to look into the transformation of those women after their transitions. She majored in Adult Learning and Leadership and obtained a Masters degree in the same program in 2018. Aside from her dissertation research, she is part of the team that has published research on informal and incidental learning in the clinical learning environment during times of uncertainty and complexity.
Grace has worked in marketing investment management services for Lazard Freres and Sanford Bernstein in New York City. She also holds an MBA in Financial Management from Pace University in New York City and graduated from the University of the Philippines with a BA in Communication Research. She completed the Art and Craft of Discussion Leadership course at Harvard Business School. She is also certified Facilitator and Coach for the Zenger Folkman Extraordinary Program.
Racquel Cagurangan
Michael Cannon
Michael Cannon has been an accredited discussion leader at the John Clements Leadership Institute for over 10 years, specializing in leadership, team management, and executive presence. With over 30 years of experience in training professionals across a diverse range of subjects, he has traveled the world to lead discussions on the impact of the multicultural workplace. Michael has also trained executives on the influence of culture on business development in China.
Among 600 facilitators, and with votes from over 100 countries, Michael was awarded the Best Trainer in 2008, achieving the highest evaluation scores for numerous training courses he created and conducted worldwide.
Currently, Michael serves as the Executive Vice President of ADCEM Teleconstruct Corporation. His career includes work with the British Government and numerous leading business organizations globally. He holds a degree in History and a Cambridge CELTA, among many other qualifications.
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.
Tushima Kumar
With multidisciplinary expertise in Technology Consulting, Tushima Kumar brings 30 years of experience across diverse and versatile roles in Consulting, Sales, Solutions, and Delivery. Her work spans multiple domains, including Telecom (OSS/BSS), Oil and Gas, Healthcare, Public Service, Clinical Studies, and Investment Banking.
She has worked across geographies—USA, India, and the Philippines—and held key roles at organizations such as Accenture, Deutsche Bank AG, Unisys, Siemens Information, Icon Clinical, Idea Integration, and Usha Group. Throughout her career, she has closely engaged with C-suite executives from Fortune 10 companies, helping drive transformation within their organizations.
In her most recent role, she led pre-sales for Market Units at Accenture Philippines across APAC, driving innovation in large deals to achieve industry-led differentiation and embedding Generative AI for clients worldwide. She also served as the Sustainability Lead, pioneering efforts to integrate Sustainability by Design into technology solutions.
Tushima is a recipient of the prestigious Gantimpala Award, along with multiple leadership accolades at Accenture. She is deeply passionate about mentoring women in technology and has supported many in advancing their careers.
Currently, she is pursuing a Master’s in Sustainability from Harvard Business Extension School and serves on the board of Bharati Indian Expat Women in the Philippines, a nonprofit organization.
Outside of work, Tushima is an avid traveler and hiker. She has completed multiple full marathons and ultramarathons, including a 100-kilometer race.
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.”
Dondi Mapa
Dondi brings a unique perspective shaped by his extensive experience in both the private and public sectors. Additionally, he has demonstrated success navigating complex matrix environments within large multinational corporations and managing the high-pressure demands of start-up organizations.
His work experience includes C-suite roles such as Regional Chief Privacy Officer for Citibank Asia-Pacific, Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft Philippines, Commissioner of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology, and Deputy Commissioner of the National Privacy Commission. Additionally, he has held various executive positions at Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Unisys, James Martin & Co., SGV & Co., Duotal, and Hatchasia.com. He has been recognized with awards from the US Department of State, the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the National Privacy Commission, the National Association of Data Protection Officers of the Philippines, and the Asia CEO Awards.
He currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of the Maple Agricultural Corporation, and is a major shareholder in Lupa Farms, a sustainable farming operation located in Negros Oriental. He holds an undergraduate degree in Business Management from the Ateneo de Manila University and has completed advanced courses at Canada’s International Development Research Center, INSEAD (the European Institute of Business Administration), and the Darden School of Business in Virginia, USA.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 International 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.
