World Kindness Day is celebrated each year on November 13th. On this day, the Asia Pacific Kindness & Leadership 50 Leading Lights showcased 50 leaders building a new status quo, impacting others through kindness. The leaders listed demonstrate the incredible value that kindness can add to their leadership toolkit and the resulting positive contribution to business, economy and broader society.
From The Philippines, nominees included:
Ana Margarita “Ginggay” Hontiveros, Vice President, Aboitiz Equity Ventures Inc.
Melissa Villa, Founder & Executive Director, Project PEARLS
Nicole Tiamzon, Founder & Director, Spike and Serve Philippines Inc.
Ana Margarita “Ginggay” Hontiveros, Vice President, Aboitiz Equity Ventures Inc.
Melissa Villa, Founder & Executive Director, Project PEARLS
Nicole Tiamzon, Founder & Director, Spike and Serve Philippines Inc.
By shining a light on kindness, the initiative, which began in the UK in 2018, has shifted the leadership conversation demonstrating a genuine and powerful connection between kind leadership and good business.
Covid-19 has changed the leadership landscape with compassion and empathy now no longer the management style of ‘nice’ people. As the world inches closer to business as usual, this initiative, further embeds the importance of kindness within organizations across different regions demonstrating the power of kindness to transcend culture and national boundaries.
Pinky Lilani CBE DL, Founder, Women of the Future (WOF) Programme remarked, “It is tremendously exciting to announce 50 Leading Lights, across both the UK and Asia Pacific regions. By placing a spotlight on phenomenal leaders who are harnessing the power of kindness to make a significant impact and to effect positive change, we collectively place kindness at the centre of the leadership debate. Together, we encourage the leaders of today and tomorrow – no matter what their role or background – to #leadwithkindness, because when kindness is the currency, we can all be millionaires.”
Pinky Lilani CBE DL, Founder, Women of the Future (WOF)
Together with the Said Business School, the University of Oxford, The Kindness & Leadership Leading Lights campaign has explored the characteristics associated with kind leaders. Those who are deeply thoughtful of others and show humanity, generosity, and compassion, and are dedicated to supporting the well-being of others and fostering a spirit of collaboration are the specific traits that were taken into consideration in selecting the 100 leading lights.
These leading lights were chosen after careful review by a distinguished panel comprising representatives from different industry across both UK & Asia Pacific regions
Vicki Treadell – British High Commissioner to Australia (Chair of Judging Panel)
Dr Swati Piramal – Vice Chairman, Piramal Enterprises
Hugh Andrew – Managing Director, Blackrock Real Assets
Jo Tyndall – New Zealand High Commissioner to Singapore
Rupen Desai – Global Chief Marketing Officer, Dole Packaged Foods
Bo Zhou – Partner and Senior Vice President, IHS Markit
