Developing purposeful and impactful leaders

in Filipino organizations.

Because great leadership permeates across the organization.

Helping Filipino Organizations Develop Strategically-Aligned, Mission-Driven and Effective Leaders.

Because great leadership permeates across the organization.

Our team understands the importance of leadership that is strategically aligned, effective and mission-driven.

We ensure that our engagements are always evidence-based and uses proven leadership and management frameworks but at the same time keeping relevant with the current organizational contexts.

Minimize guesswork and focus on solving real challenges

There are many paths to leadership development. Sadly a lot of them today are based on hype and guess work. True and sustainable leadership development must be based on your organizational identity and done using the right methods that allows leaders to be empowered and aligned.

About Strategic Organizational Leadership Academy (SOLA)

SOLA was founded by executive coach and leadership development consultant, Val Baguios, Coach Val set out to form a team of coach and consultants who had global coaching competencies and use it to help Filipino business owners in developing their leaders for every stage of their organizational growth.

SOLA ensures that programs are done in a way that supports the strategic direction of our clients to create clarity, alignment and to build leadership culture that supports the company's mission and goals. Together our team aims to develop purposeful and impactful leaders in every Filipino organization.

Val, the founder of Strategic Organizational Leadership Academy (SOLA), is an International Coach Federation (ICF) certified coach and a Gallup-certified Strengths Coach. He was part of the pioneering batch of the Gallup-certified strengths coaches in the Philippines. He took his Master's degree in Organizational Psychology at the Ateneo de Manila University.

Val has over 10 years of experience in one-on-one executive coaching, strengths and leadership development with leaders, managers, and executives from SMEs and the top organizations in the country, across various industries.

Val Baguios III, ICF PCC

Bevs is SOLA's bright ray of light. She puts lighthearted fun in every SOLA activity. She has been doing consultative selling for 6 years. She graduated BS Psychology, and now happily practicing this degree as an organizational leadership coach.

Bevs Fernandez

Jerome graduated his Bachelor's degree in Psychology at the Ateneo de Manila University. His experience with social media marketing and sales is invaluable to SOLA's growth.

Jerome Chua

Coach Bryan is our entrepreneur + life coach. A loving husband and a father of 3. He is licensed mechanical engineer and did work around this for 15 years.

Bryan See

Diego, also known as "Degz," is a graduate of business administration who majored in financial management. His early career revolved around several roles in the BPO industry. Degz' role as operations manager gives him a valuable perspective when it comes to MSME operations.

Diego Arbiz Jr.

Monica is SOLA's in-house researcher. She has over 5 years of experience in leadership and management roles. Having acquired her double major in Economics and Psychology, and currently pursuing her Master's degree in Organizational Psychology,

Marie Monica Sillona

Nico has a Master's degree in Business Administration. A former business analyst and is now an administrator in the academe sector. His exposure to various industries fueled his purpose to inspire and empower leaders of various organizations to take charge and lead.

NICO CRUZ

The Programs We Run...

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Masterclass in Organizational Leadership Coaching

Our flagship masterclass. Aligned to international coaching competencies standards. If you want your leaders and coaches to learn coaching the right way and acquire the right skills - this program which places emphasis on practice and mentoring will be the best way to go.

One-on-one Leadership Coaching

This is our main thing! The culmination of everything we do as coaches. This is where we get to help people make sense of what is on their minds as they do their greatest work as leaders. Because of the collective experiences we have, we collect the geniuses of leaders in various industries and use these insights to help our clients

Mission-focused Strategic Planning Program

Strategic planning both clarifies your business' direction for the year and ensures the leadership team's alignment to what really matters to stakeholders. We use the classic strategic frameworks and help in making it more practical and approachable to SMEs.

Strengths-based Development for Leaders

If an organization wants to maximize the strengths of their people, the very first objective is to gain understanding of individual strengths and how it influences the person's decisions, actions and emotions. The best play to start this is with the leaders.

Mission-driven Organizational Identity

Strengths-based Development for Teams

Individual talents affect the way we think, feel and behave. Because of this,, it is important for team leaders along with their team gain awareness and appreciation of how these talents and strengths affect them as they commit to their goals and as they create the team's culture.

Leadership Conversations (Interactive Talks)

We create conversations with leaders. When we create talks for your events we make sure that there is also a chance for our listeners to interact. We focus on conversations about how leadership can be done better - a leader who understands and maximizes the strengths of their human capital and aligns them to a worthy organizational purpose. We acknowledge that not all organizations might have similar needs, so we ensure that our leadership conversations are very customizable to your needs.

What they say

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We worked with Coach Val at Canva for a series of Strengths workshops and coaching. I appreciate how he takes time to understand our organization, its objectives and challenges to align how he can add value and contribute to what we are trying to achieve. To this day, he has continuously supported me on both my personal and professional goals.

Kei San Pablo

former Country Manager Canva PH

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In my 6-months of coaching sessions with him, we went through a journey that eventually taught me to view and act based on my current understanding of my purpose and design, enabling me to strategize and execute from a solid start. So, if you have an audacious goal with pivotal implications, I highly recommend engaging Coach Val.

Rafferty Uy

Senior Cloud Architect, Microsoft

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Val is a great listener. That's the first reason why he stands out as a coach. His ability to work out professional issues in order to activate strengths would be nothing if he wasn't able to hear what was being said and inversely, what was not being said as well. His innate ability to empathize amplifies this.

Patricia Malay

Senior Vice President and General Manager, FleishmanHillard Manila

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Val helped me mold my leadership skills in my company. Through his coaching, i discovered my strengths and weaknesses as a leader. I was able to capitalize these strengths and improve my weaknesses. With his guidance, I was able to identify my personal mission and learnt to measure its effectiveness.