Our Executive Coaches and Consultants
Benchmark Consulting’s team of executive coaches and consultants are composed of world-class professionals with extensive experience, ICF-credentials and a long track record of excellent performance.
They are recognized worldwide to have the following:
HIGHEST QUALIFICATION. An ICF coach education is a highly recognized qualification with credibility around the world. ICF-credentialed coaches demonstrate outstanding level of professional standards.
SEASONED COACHES. They were required to have 100-2,500 hours of coaching experience to be certified.
HIGHEST LEVEL OF COACHING COMPETENCE. Their coaching competence was evaluated by a globally recognized body of expert mentor coaches and they seriously take on-going professional development.
IMPECCABLE INTEGRITY. They abide by a strong Code of Ethics and ICF sanctions them if they violate these. In short, you are safer in their hands.
The International Coaching Federation (ICF) is the largest global organization of professional coaches with 20,000+ members in 110 countries. It is the leader in establishing both ethical standards and coaching competencies worldwide and awards the only globally recognized coaching qualification.
ICF is dedicated to advancing the coaching profession by setting high ethical standards, providing independent certification, and building a worldwide network of credentialed coaches. Coaching is a distinct service and differs greatly from therapy, consulting, mentoring, or training. ICF defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. For more information, visit www.coachfederation.org.
Our Coaching Team
JULIUS C. ORDOÑEZ, MCC
Julius Ordoñez is the President and owner of Benchmark Consulting. He is one of the few executive coaches in the world and Philippines FIRST-EVER ICF Master Certified Coach, the highest level of certification granted by the International Coach Federation (ICF), the recognized authority of professional coaching worldwide.
BELINDA MERRY, MCC
Belinda Merry coaches leaders and emerging leaders to have increased sustainable energy. Her coaching clients include executives and senior managers within organisations, small business owners and a handful of newer coaches whom she supervises and mentors. Some of her clients include companies such as Shell, ANZ, Seek, IAG, Westpac, John Wiley & Sons, CBRE, government departments and owners of SME’s.
ZACH PROSSER, MCC
Zach Prosser is a global award-winning coach with experience of over 16 years in executive leadership. Prosser has received the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Young Leader Award and Chapter Recognition Award for his leadership in coaching. Prosser is a Leadership Coach, Master Facilitator and Coach Trainer.
PAULETTE PUEO-DEL ROSARIO, PCC
Paulette Pueo-Del Rosario, PCC brings a wealth of experience in training, consulting, organizational development, leadership coaching and mentoring gained from her stints in pre-need insurance, manufacturing, financial and real estate spanning more than 15 fruitful years.
BERNICE ANG, PCC
Bernice Ang is an ICF-certified coach who works with women in leadership to create a purpose-centered personal brand, enabling them to integrate their demanding work and private lives so they can THRIVE. She brings 24 years of corporate experience – holding leadership roles in multi-billion dollar companies and developing high-performing professionals while enjoying a rich and fulfilling personal life.
MELA CHAMBERLAIN, PCC
“Changing the world one person at a time” is Mela Chamberlain’s personal mission as a Professional Coach. She brings with her over ten years and 700 hours of one-on-one coaching, backed by over twenty-five years of rich experiences in the various fields of Leadership and People Development, General and Sales Management, Personal Financial Planning, and Entrepreneurship. Her effectiveness as a Coach comes from her passion for making a difference, continuous learning and self-improvement.
FOO SEE LUAN, PCC
See Luan, having worked for more than 35 years in the business world, knows that clients everywhere are searching for meaning, purpose, fulfillment and well being.Leaders and managers are being asked increasingly to lead and perform in an incredibly complex interdependent global economy. Rather than attempting to be all things to all people, they are challenged to focus on the vital few and doing them well.
DIWI PANAHON-ROCHA, PCC
Diwi brings into her coaching practice a very strong sense of faith and work-life balance. She has devoted over 30 years of her professional experience in leadership and management, specializing in the field of organization and human resource development, with background in Sales, Product and Training management. Ten years of her career were spent with various multinational and national companies as a Consultant.
MARIEL C. TABLAN, PCC, RFP, FLMI
Mariel’s personal mission is to ignite transformation in individuals and teams in their journey towards breakthroughs and discoveries through Coaching, Mentoring and Training.
She holds a degree in Management of Financial Institutions (MFI) from De La Salle University Manila, is a Registered Financial Planner (RFP), a Fellow, Life Management Institute (FLMI), DiSC certified and has over 20 years of experience in Training and Development.
MA. CARMEN “CAR” L. TESTA, PCC
Car Testa is an independent consultant. She is a Change Consultant and Certified Holistic Life, Career & Executive Coach with nearly 10 years of coaching experience supporting the personal, professional and leadership development of professionals, managers, and executives, as well as students in graduate degree programs and executive education non-degree programs.
MARIA LUISA D. VITALES, PCC
Maria Luisa “Luchi” D. Vitales is a professional coach accorded with credentials by the International Coach Federation (ICF) USA, and GALLUP, USA as Strengths Coach. She has helped in the transference of coaching knowledge through the conduct of workshops and coaching sessions to individuals and teams at the top management, to middle management, and entrepreneurs, in a wide range of industries.
Adam Noah Paul Bautista, ACC
Adam Bautista is a passionate facilitator, training consultant and coach that guarantees high people engagement with his high emotional energy. His skill in facilitating programs has been molded through his numerous dealings with organizations and people from various industries, cultures and countries. Bearing innate creativity paired with a honed mastery of developmental frameworks and tools, he has helped organizations meet their specific training objectives…
Rachel C. Consunji, ACC
Rachel C. Consunji’s fundamental skill set lies in her ability to help individuals, teams and organizations uncover their true strength towards becoming better versions of themselves. Her genuine desire to contribute to the development of others, her belief in the power of process, backed by her profound understanding of human and organizational behavior allow her to determine, create and implement fitting and successful interventions to her clients’ needs.
Lynne K. Cruz-Reyes, ACC
Lynne has just successfully completed her formal training program on Professional Coaching. Even before, many have noticed her positivity, her engaging manner and ease in emotionally connecting with people. After recently retiring from her corporate career, Lynne knew, without the slightest doubt, that her next career move will be in coaching where she is now eager to help create a positive change, one coachee at a time.
FRANCIS DEL VAL, ACC
Francis del Val has over 3 decades’ experience as a general manager, marketer and strategist in FMCG, pharmaceuticals and banking. The past twelve years was spent living in London, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and in between, running businesses in Asia, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, the Middle East, China and Asia Pacific. Francis is a highly energetic, passionate business and marketing strategist.
Raul Dimayuga, ACC
Raul has over 3 decades of extensive experience as a senior executive in one of the country’s top banks and has gone through different parts of the bank from Sales Management, Training, Branch Banking, Internet Banking, Global Remittance, Customer Experience Management and Business Banking. He was also President of BPI Direct Savings Bank, a wholly owned Internet Bank of Bank of the Philippine Islands designed to service the needs of Overseas Filipinos. He was also assigned in Europe for over a year.
VINCE DIZON, ACC
Vince Dizon has a natural ability to connect and relate with workplace leaders since he brings with him fresh corporate operations experience with diverse personal exposure from top to bottom of business settings here and abroad. He is driven with a personal purpose of partnering with people through coaching to transform them to be the best version of themselves and bring them to their fullest potential.
Trixy Gabriel, ACC
Trixy Gabriel wields a rich combination of training and coaching competencies anchored on an extensive academic and corporate background which she seamlessly blends with her role as a training consultant, facilitator and coach. She is a Global Member of the International Coach Federation (ICF). She started her career as an educator and school administrator, teaching students at various levels and supervising teachers.
JOSEF SOLLER, MD-MBA, ACC
Josef “Popo” Soller, MD-MBA, ACC is one of the active drivers of putting more emphasis on the preventive aspect of overall health in the healthcare system of the Philippines. Using life coaching as his main tool, Popo aims to guide and equip people on their Wellness, Life Vision, and Personal Development. With his strong ability to connect with different kinds of people in their passion points, a session with him is always fun, memorable, and transformative.
LEO H.A. TACKE, ACC
Leo has created an effective coaching approach that draws from his 25 years corporate, organizational and cultural experience. As an executive in various successful Fortune 500 companies across Europe, USA and Asia, he worked within operations, start-ups, financial and services organisations. And so, he understands the demands of executive leadership, and knows what it means to structure an organization…
ELEANOR ALANDY
Eleanor Alandy has served thousands of leaders at the executive level as well as high potential senior business leaders in the US and in the Asia Pacific Region for over 20 years in the area of leadership development and executive coaching. She consulted with various Executive Teams in executive education, change management, team effectiveness, action learning, strategic planning, organization effectiveness, & leadership development…
Nelson Cacnio
Nel Cacnio considers coaching as his calling as it has always been his passion to help others grow and develop and reach their fullest potential. His career gave him the opportunity to grow and develop strong leaders in the organizations he was part of. After personally going through an executive coaching experience with Mr. Julius Ordonez, Nel realized that coaching will allow him to do what he is most passionate about.
Serge de la Fuente
As an executive, the focus of Serge de la Fuente has been in developing people to assume higher responsibilities. In fact, many of the managers who have worked with him have progressed to assume executive positions themselves. Thus, it was logical for Serge to pursue a second career in Executive Coaching, for his management qualities and experience have enabled him to draw out the best in people.
Emese Dobos
Emese Dobos has 10 years solid experience in Human Resources on both corporate and agency side. Her main forte lies in talent management, recruitment and workforce selection with special expertise in conducting Assessment and Development Centers; succession planning as well as employee well-being. Emese is a psychologist by profession and an ICF qualified coach which experience she applies daily not only for inspiring clients to maximize their potential…
Linda Hearne
Linda Hearne is the managing partner of Benchmark International and the president and founder of High-Impact-Coaching, both in California USA. She has a wealth of corporate experience having held key positions in sales, marketing, project management, training, organization development and operations in various industries including high tech, biotech, pharmaceuticals, consulting, manufacturing, training, engineering and finance.
Alma Horn
Alma Horn is an Executive Coach and an independent HR Consultant with focus on Talent and Leadership Development and Succession Planning. She coaches senior executives in various industries. Alma is a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF), the only independent, globally-recognized accrediting organization for coaches worldwide. She was the Community Relations Chairperson of ICF Philippines Chapter in the past.
Vicente “Binky” Kilayko
Binky has experience in manufacturing, purchasing, industrial marketing and business development. He started his career with Procter & Gamble in 1975 and then transferred to Givaudan S.A. in 1986 as an expat. He relocated with the family to Switzerland, Hongkong, Japan and Singapore. Binky travelled extensively and has led multi-skilled and multi-cultural teams. Binky subsequently moved back to the Philippines as a senior leader in various companies.
Jose Nemencio M. Lim
Jose Nemencio M. Lim brings into the coaching practice over 30 years of business success in top leadership positions in the pharmaceutical industry both in the Philippines and abroad. He was Managing Director of GlaxoSmithKline Vietnam/Indochina and GlaxoSmithKline Thailand Ltd. Before his foreign assignments, Nemy headed the sales and marketing functions of GlaxoSmithKline Philippines Inc.
Katherine Limjoco
Katherine Limjoco has over 20 years of experience in the corporate and business world in Marketing/Advertising, Sales, Account Management, Human Resource Relations, and Recruitment, both locally and in the US. Katherine’s passion for coaching stems from a spiritual ideal to fulfill her life’s mission by being a collaborative partner (and gift) of change and transformation one individual at a time.
Monina C. Macavinta
Monina C. Macavinta’s life purpose is to give back and be of service to people as her way of thanking God for His blessings. Her involvement in executive coaching is a logical progression which springs from her appreciation of the innate potential of every individual which she believes can be unleashed and maximized through proper guidance and mentoring.
Stephen MacDonald
Stephen MacDonald’s last 39 years have been spent turning around troubled companies or working in highly volatile markets, all over the world. His assignments have been in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, throughout Latin America, Asia and Europe. He was the Managing Director of Goodyear Philippines in 1997 – 2000, during the Asian Crisis. During his career, Steve discovered that the most critical factor for success is the quality of people around him.
Bing Matoto
Senen “Bing” Matoto is an accomplished professional manager who can provide to any coaching situation a perspective that could cover almost all facets of a business operation. His main strength in his executive coaching stints is his natural ability to provide the appropriate setting for an honest, open and trusting relationship with his coachees.
Didith Morales
Didith Morales has over 20 years of solid corporate experience in the areas of commercial strategy, operational and organizational excellence, cross-cultural leadership, culture-building and employee engagement, performance management excellence, coaching and talent development. She spent most of her corporate career in senior and country commercial leadership positions in leading multinational pharmaceutical companies…
Natasha Muniz
Natasha Muniz is an incredibly approachable coach and instantly puts clients at ease with her friendly demeanor and infectious emotional energy. She drives transformation by facilitating deeper self awareness, clearer goal setting and setting actions to move things forward. She’s on a personal mission to unlock people’s greatest potential, drive their professional growth and promote wellbeing through coaching.
David Ramos
As a professional coach, David Ramos brings forth powerful transformations to his clients from both the industry and the academe. He enables staff, middle managers and executives to make powerful choices and to be bold leaders in their respective fields. He helps leaders to bring impeccable integrity in the workplace and empowers individuals and teams to reach phenomenal performance.
Jing Remo
Jing Remo had 40 years of banking experience in one of the country’s largest banks as a senior executive and member of the Management Committee. Given the volatile landscape while the bank continued to expand and transform rapidly, her various leadership positions gave her the opportunity to help steer major landmark decisions. Jing championed and sponsored several HR initiatives, foremost of which was an extensive coaching program covering all levels of management.
Lillian Y. Reyes
As a coach, Lillian Yambao Reyes easily establishes rapport with her coachee as she is very open and approachable. Her strength as a coach lies in her listening skill as this encourages a deeper and more substantive conversation with the coachee. She also empathizes with her coachee and provides encouragement to see the coaching through to its intended outcome.
Tina Sioson
Post December 2018 corporate life, and now as a practicing Human Resource Consultant, Tina Sioson’s laser focus is on Leadership Coaching and Successor Development, Organizational Health Management towards Change and Transformation of business and people.
Angela Blardony Ureta
Although she may be considered new to professional coaching, Anjie has always been a natural healer and a keen observer of the human condition. After a long and prolific career in media working as a producer, journalist, and consultant, it’s safe to say that she has seen the world from many different lenses. This has brought her a deep and personal understanding of woundedness and taught her the unique skill of seeing people for who they really are and who they can become.
Geoffrey Uy
Geoffrey Uy is an accomplished banking professional with over 30 years of experience in Treasury, Risk Management, and Corporate Audit. In his tenure in Treasury, he effectively managed the Bank’s risk-taking activities, surpassing profit targets. In Risk Management, Geoff played a pivotal role in the development and implementation of the Bank’s Market & Liquidity Risk Management Program, balancing earnings objectives with potential risks.
Mia Zamora
Mia Zamora is a Human Resources executive at one of the Philippines’ largest conglomerates, with experience in the areas of Learning and Capability Development, Career and Succession Management, Leadership Development and HR Operations. Her experience working with leaders and high potential talents from various industries has given her a deep perspective into talent development, eventually motivating her to pursue her passion to become a professional coach.
