Benjamin Deodato “Benjie” R. Garcia

Director, Executive Coach & Trainer, HR Consultant

Benjie’s mission is to help leaders in their flourishing and transformation. He discovered this calling as part of his spiritual journey. Passion for leadership combined with a calm, self-effacing approach underscores his style as a coach. Learning from his own leadership journey, he balances between his strong desire for results and his empathy for the challenges a successful leader needs to overcome in demonstrating new leadership behaviors. These have greatly contributed to Benjie’s effectiveness in coaching clients with the following objectives: guide new managers of people to become aware of and gain confidence in their identity as leaders, and onboarding executives with new mindsets and skills they need to succeed in their new role.

Benjie is a Certified Coach by Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching (MGSCC). He attended coaching modules of the International Society of Neuro-Semantics and the Foundations of Great Coaching organized by the World Business and Executive Coaching Summit (WBECS). Benjie is also a member of the Coach Approach Ministries (CAM) Community of Coaches and he also has certification on the following:

>> Global Leader Assessment (GLA 360), MGSCC

>> Emotional Intelligence Facilitator, Genos International

>> Strengths Deployment Inventory Facilitator, Core Strengths

His rich experience in working with teams from diverse cultures and backgrounds in different capacities taught Benjie the value of leveraging individual perspectives as a critical factor to successfully introduce new ideas and behaviors towards achieving a common goal. As an HR consultant and facilitator, Benjie’s interest and expertise are in developing and executing business-driven human resource strategies, leadership and talent development, transformational organization change.

He is passionate about helping senior leaders become more successful in living more satisfying personal and professional lives through POWERinU’s training, consulting and executive coaching solutions.

A graduate of the University of the Philippines and the Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand), Benjie firmly believes in continuous learning. Some of the key programs he attended were the Professional Training and Development Program of the Ateneo de Manila University, the Human Resource Management in Asia Program Insead Euro-Asia Center, the Human Resource Executive Program of the University of Michigan Business School, and he is also a Genos International Emotional Intelligence Certified Practitioner.

Benjie has worked with MNCs in the Philippines and across Asia Pacific. He has worked for companies such as Sterling Winthrop Philippines (now part of Glaxo SmithKline), Bristol-Myers Squibb and MeadJohnson Nutrition (now part of Reckitt Benkiser). His most recent stint was as Senior Vice President for Human Resources of Philex Mining Corporation.

Webinars with Benjie as host, speaker or panelist.

THE SAILBOAT METAPHOR – A Tool for Self-Reflection

The Pursuit of Passion, Success and Significance

Character Matters!

The Stories We Tell Ourselves and How We Can Use These to Achieve Our Goals

Coaching 101: The Coach and Coachees’ Perspective

The Emotional Intelligence Experience

How to Rebound and Reimagine your Business

Is Change a Sinking Ship or a Sunken Treasure in the VUCA World?

PREVENT SYSTEM FAILURE:
What You Need To Know Before Starting A Tech Or Tech-Enabled Business In The Philippines

EXPANDING OUR EXTERNAL SELF-AWARENESS:
Learning Truths About Ourselves That We Rarely Hear

Making Lifestyle Changes with Health & Wellness Coaching

Powerful Habits Towards Financial Independence

LEADERSHIP LESSONS – Anchors for Driving Success

POST COVID-19 ECQ:
Leading People In Times Of VUCA

Rethinking Leadership, Reimagining the Future

Rebuilding your Confidence in the Next Normal

Jump-Starting your Leadership Career

Optimizing Ownership and Accountability in a Generation of Silent Quitting

FROM TENSION TO TEAMWORK:
Resolving Conflicts Together

CONSCIOUS COLLABORATIVE MURMURATION:
Unlock Your Team’s Potential

Leading for Growth Using the N.E.W.S.® Compass

Testimonials

I’ve had a lot of conversations with Benjie and they are very instructive to me as the point person of our firm. They help me clarify a lot of things also about our own institutional goals so I think the time that Benjie spends talking to me about our own objectives is very, very helpful. I think the result itself, the fact that 5 of the coachees are now partners of the firm, is proof of the success of the (coaching) program, so that speaks for itself.

Atty. Patricia A.O. BunyeDeputy Managing Partner and Senior Partner at Cruz Marcelo and Tenefrancia (Coaching Client)

We have chosen POWERinU for our Strategic Planning Workshop and other coaching and mentorship engagements simply because we can’t afford to sacrifice the quality and relevance of this exercise which we consider critical in bringing the organization up to its fullest potentials.
Indeed, Jun and Benjie have provided us with critical insights that were particularly applicable to our respective teams and to our businesses as a whole. This has brought our teams a significant impact as we became much more aware and conscious of our MUST deliverables, doing things right, differently, yet better. In view of these improvements, the organization is now ready to take off with its strategies, action plans, ownership, and timelines in line with Kilton Group’s business goals for 2023 and beyond.

David Garcia TanVice President of the Kilton Motor Group

Our MANCOM had the opportunity to go through a 2 days Strategic Planning session with POWERinU’s top facilitators Mr. Jun Marfori and Mr. Benjie Garcia. It was a fun learning experience, the process and the system that they have imparted was a big help in putting the current business plans in its proper phasing and program.

Maria Lauren Bacal-Reyes HR Manager, Attila Incorporated

Very consistent in their dealings. I found POWERinU team (Benjie) a comfortable partner in my OD endeavors.

Milot M. OsionesHuman Resources – Organizational Development of Onsemi

When most of our directors and our CEO joined the organization during the height of the pandemic, POWERinU helped us come together for a one-day training on the “Sodexo Way”, followed by another workshop “Harnessing Uniqueness and Leveraging our Strengths”. The training was led by Jun Marfori and Benjie Garcia who were very professional and detailed in designing the program for us. They were also able to deliver the program very well because of the expertise in training. Thank you POWERinU for journeying with us!

Claire CaparasHR Director of SODEXO

Benjie reminds me of this quote from Peter Drucker. “Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”
He guided me towards achieving my career vision. He challenged me to raise the bar of my performance in many ways. He gave me projects that I had never done before and guided me. Benjie regularly asked for his team’s opinions and ideas. During our team meetings, he encouraged us to challenge each other’s ideas to come up with the best solution as a team. Benjie always stood by his team and for his principles.

Marites A. ValerioFormer HR Director at Oakridge Realty Development Corporation

Through Coach Benjie’s guidance, I was able to come up with insights of potential activities that I can do that will both be impactful for myself and for others. For me, the highlight of the coaching session is Coach Benjie’s focus on my own’s “higher self.” Since I shared with him my feelings of uncertainty and fear, as brought about by recent circumstances, he reminded me that my higher self is still with me and it can help me maximize my capabilities through realized opportunities. Through his listening skills, he was able to probe using questions that are relevant and insightful. At some point, he would pose questions that would require me to dig deeper and examine my present and my intentions, and allow me to take the time to reflect before responding.

Orly AgawinExecutive Director of OSA Training and Education

I was blessed to have the opportunity to work with Benjie as my leadership coach. From the very first session, I was struck by his incredible ability to listen. He has a way of making you feel heard and understood, even when you’re struggling to articulate your thoughts. He has a knack for asking just the right questions to help you untangle the mess in your head and identify the root of the problem. Working with Benjie was like having a brainstorming partner who is also a therapist. He helped me to not only understand the challenges I was facing, but also to develop a clear roadmap for moving forward. By the end of our coaching sessions, I had a renewed sense of purpose and direction. I finally felt like I knew what the next steps were and, more importantly, how to achieve them.

Coaching Client2024

I am able to receive a feedback that evaluates how well I’m planning my career and personal life. My coach is listening and addressing my concerns in a very calm manner. My coach already knows what I should do with my concerns, but he let me identify it as self-realization or awareness, which I do appreciate a lot. My coach did not give-up on me. I missed our schedule sessions twice and, in the 3^rd try, he still gave me a chance. Here, it’s nice to know that there is someone (even a stranger) that is willing to support and help me even in my incompetency.

Product ManagerCoachee during the COVID-19 Quarantine Period in Manila

I would like to thank you for the coaching you have given to me. In a moment of great shifts, when I had to assess internal communication and build a high-performance team, I chose Benjie as my coach. He helped me in a unique way to set up methods, strategies and identify drivers for positive change. This has really helped me to change my perspective and a paradigm shift. He provided practical tools and real-life examples to enhance team communication and leadership. He listens to what I have to say, and I am always impressed by his insights into my situations. Benjie is very easy to talk to and I would highly recommend him.

Coaching Client2023

I was given a privilege to be coached by Benjie Garcia in my previous role. When my previous company went through a rigorous merger, he was very instrumental in helping me adapt to my new role and to the new management style. He also helped me be more self-aware, especially in finding my main motivation of why I’d like to achieve my goals.

Coaching Client2021

I was given a privilege tBefore I started my coaching session with Benjie, I am too emotional and often made haste on my conclusions. The sessions had helped me channel those energy and boxed my thought process towards the particular objective I wanted to achieve. He has his way of framing the situation that helped me realize on my own the better approach to a seemingly difficult situation. The sessions were not only to address or solve particular challenges but the development is geared towards improving mindset, practice and ethics centered on good principles and strong foundations. I am very pleased to have continued my coaching with Benjie for 2 years and looking forward for more. Thank you Benjie, I deeply value each sessions.

Coaching ClientFrom 2018 – 2020