Elaine Bernalyn S. Cercado
Director, Trainer, Executive Coach, Senior Consultant
Elaine has 30 years of professional history, which includes working with diverse teams, from the fast growing small & medium-sized businesses to complex multi-national corporations, in varied emerging and mature industries in Asia-Pacific markets, such as IT, financial, government, industrial, document management, entertainment & healthcare. Throughout her corporate stints, she specialized in sales, business development, general management, people management, regional operations, customer service, learning & organizational development.
In 2008, Elaine embarked on a second career in management development training, consulting, mentoring and coaching, and built POWERinU Training & Coaching LLP (formerly, de’POWERinU Management Consultants LLP) in Singapore, where she resides with her family. She focused on areas such as leadership & management, change management, organizational development, learning & development, people & performance management, B2B sales/customer service excellence, personal empowerment/personal effectiveness, strategic HR & operational excellence, business & market development.
Elaine holds a BS degree in Applied Economics, a Master in Business Administration, Advanced Certification in Training and Assessment (ACTA) by Singapore WDA/IAL, and is certified Practicing Management Consultant (PMC) of the Singapore Business Advisors and Consultants Council.
She is a certified trainer of Global Learning by CEGOS (GLC) for Managerial Intelligence Levels 1 & 2, GLC Creating and Delivering Powerful Presentations, GLO Managing Business Change, GLO Leading My Business, and GLO Stakeholder Management. Elaine is certified IMPAX trainer for Strategic / Consultative Selling & Superior Account Management, and certified MLB Switzerland trainer for various Management / Leadership programs. Elaine also co-designed and developed POWERinU’s TCOB training and consulting programs for fast-growing SMEs, and the EMPOWER programs for personal effectiveness.
Last June 2016, Elaine has completed certification program under Corporate Coach U and is now a Coaching Clinic Licensed Facilitator. In addition, Elaine Cercado has certified in CoachU’s coaching course and has earned the CEG (Core Essentials Graduate) designation. Elaine also underwent practitioner certification for Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) at Mind Transformations in Singapore last July 2022.
In 2015, Elaine served as regional sales learning and enablement manager for IDC Asia/Pacific, where she led the development and deployment of learning strategies and activities throughout the Asia-Pacific Sales organization, in close collaboration with the senior business and sales leaders.
In 2017, Elaine became a regional leadership program facilitator and trainer for the US-based Training Resources Group, Inc (TRG), where she was assigned to train TRG’s key client, The World Bank. Elaine co-facilitated 3 programs including Personal Leadership Skills, Strengthening Leadership Skills and Supervisory Program, at various times in Vietnam, Croatia, Thailand and India.
“The POWER in U~Discover. Develop. Maximize. Share.” Elaine is passionate and committed to fulfill this mission!
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Webinars with Elaine as host, speaker or panelist.
Differentiating your Value Proposition through Storytelling
The Importance of HR & Business Partnership in Achieving Goals & Sustaining Success
Building Your COACHING LEADER-MANAGER Skills In A Digital World
Innovating and Transforming Business through Human-Centered Design Thinking
The Pursuit of Passion, Success and Significance
Coaching 101: The Coach and Coachees’ Perspective
Transforming your Company into a Digital-Driven Business
Women Breakthrough 2020
THE BLENDED WORKFORCE REVOLUTION: A Call For A New Human Capital Manifesto
The Emotional Intelligence Experience
Transitions in Life and Work
THE BOAT IS SINKING: The Power of Rock Bottom
JOB SEARCH: (Re)Starting your Career
Making Relationships Pandemic-Proof
Transitions in Life and Work
The Simplicity, Elegance and Effectiveness of Strengths
One CEO is Not Enough: Welcome to the Age of Empowerment
UP CLOSE & PERSONAL: Strengthening Relationships Post Pandemic
Engaging, Motivating and Leading Today’s Workforce
(SETC’s Online Training Summit)
The 5 Reasons the #RemoteWork Revolution will be Dangerous… For Some Of Us!
AN OPEN DIALOGUE ON LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FOR ASIANS – Are we happy with status quo?
Unlocking the Happiness Hullabaloo
Figuring Out Strategy: A Game Plan for Life
DO I HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR? Sharing by a Successful Tech Entrepreneur
Empathise to Engage
Best Practices to Build a Culture of DIVERSITY, EQUITY and INCLUSION at Work
Character Matters!
BUILDING A SUCCESSFUL START-UP: Strategies & Secrets from a Seasoned Entrepreneur
MANAGING THE FUTURE: Understanding Generational Dynamics and Future Business Realities
FROM TENSION TO TEAMWORK:
Resolving Conflicts Together
Leading for Growth Using the N.E.W.S.® Compass
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