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Official Business (OB) Rules: Employer Liability and Employee Accountability

by Sonnie Santos | Nov 17, 2025 | ASK and Answer, Corporate Governance and Compliance | 0 comments

Understand what employers are—and aren’t—liable for during official business (OB) trips. This guide explains safety duties, employee accountability, legal limits, and real scenarios HR teams often face.

Uwan’s Wake-Up Call: Employee Safety Is Business Continuity

by Sonnie Santos | Nov 12, 2025 | People First Culture | 0 comments

Typhoon Uwan (Fung Wong) exposed how “business as usual” can erode both trust and lives. As we recover from Tino and Uwan, this reflection urges HR and leaders to rebuild continuity around one non-negotiable value — employee safety first.

Philippines Leads Southeast Asia in Retention Crisis (AoN)

by Sonnie Santos | Oct 16, 2025 | Commentary, Employee Engagement, People First Culture | 0 comments

The Philippines now has Southeast Asia’s highest turnover rate. Discover why employees are leaving and how the ASK Framework helps organizations align, strengthen, and kickstart retention.

How the ASK Framework Bridges Strategy to Everyday Impact

by Sonnie Santos | Oct 14, 2025 | Alignment to Values Mission Vision, Capacity Building, People First Culture, Sonnie's Talks | 0 comments

Big plans mean little if people can’t live them out. Here’s how alignment, learning, and small habits turn strategy into results.

Why Companies Need an AI Philosophy and Policy

by Sonnie Santos | Oct 2, 2025 | Accountable Leadership, Cyber Wellness | 0 comments

When AI misfires, companies pay. A strong AI philosophy and policy keep the risks away.

Core Ideas that Drives Organizational Resilience: Agile Leadership, PPP, and Collaborative Leadership

by Sonnie Santos | Sep 26, 2025 | Knit and Kickstart (K) | 0 comments

Three key ideas that drives organizational turnaround: Agile Leadership, PPP, and Collaborative Leadership

Purpose-Driven Profitability: A Business Turnaround Case Study

by Sonnie Santos | Sep 21, 2025 | Align and Advocate (A) | 0 comments

Discover how a Philippine company cleared USD 27 M in losses by 2025. This business turnaround case study reveals how transparency, employee profit sharing, and the ASK framework sparked purpose-driven profitability.

Aligning Purpose, Strengthening Culture, and Kickstarting Execution with the ASK Framework

by Sonnie Santos | Sep 11, 2025 | Align and Advocate (A), Knit and Kickstart (K), Strengthen and Strategize (S) | 0 comments

Discover how aligning vision, mission, and values through the ASK Framework strengthens culture, boosts engagement, and drives success.

Building Tomorrow’s Leaders: Why Family Matters Most

by Sonnie Santos | Oct 30, 2024 | Accountable Leadership | 0 comments

The family dynamic provides a training ground for developing leadership skills like communication, collaboration, and accountability.

Can the Bible be a Guide for Modern HR?

by Sonnie Santos | Oct 19, 2024 | Sonnie's Talks, Spiritual Intelligence | 0 comments

Elevate your HR practices with a unique approach that combines biblical wisdom and data-driven decision making. Learn how to develop spiritually intelligent and value-adding HR leaders.

Embracing AI in HR? Take One Step Back Then Two Steps Forward

by Sonnie Santos | Sep 26, 2024 | Knit and Kickstart (K), Sonnie's Talks | 0 comments

Before embracing AI in HR, take a step back to assess your organization’s challenges before taking two steps forward with the new tool.

What is People Strategy and Why it Matters for your Company

by Sonnie Santos | Jan 25, 2024 | Accountable Leadership | 0 comments

People Strategy is not just a set of policies or procedures, but a management framework that puts employees at the center of everything.

How People Strategies Can Drive Business Performance

by Sonnie Santos | Nov 12, 2023 | Alignment to Values Mission Vision, Sonnie's Talks | 1 comment

People strategy is the forward-looking plan that define how to get the best performance out of your workforce to meet business objectives. While human resource strategy focuses on the operational side of people management

The Importance of Values-Mission-Vision

by Sonnie Santos | Apr 6, 2023 | Alignment to Values Mission Vision | 0 comments

VISION answers the “where”, the goal for at least a decade. VALUES answers the “who”, your brand, while MISSION answers the “what”, your purpose

Setting-Up DEI In Philippine Companies

by Sonnie Santos | Apr 2, 2022 | Empowerment | 0 comments

To celebrate ‘International Women’s Month’ we will discuss how to set up DEI programs in Philippine companies

HR competencies circa 2021

by Sonnie Santos | Apr 24, 2021 | Accountable Leadership, Adaptive Thinking, Agile Leadership, People First Culture, Resilience | 0 comments

With a pandemic ravaged economy, HR competencies need an overhaul too. This to address the changing landscape of the business environment.

How Human Is Human Resource Management?

by Sonnie Santos | Jul 18, 2020 | People First Culture | 0 comments

How to measure the ‘human’ in people management. Should the issues escalated by employees for hr action a fair indication?

#HRinHR: Human Centered Management

by Sonnie Santos | Sep 3, 2019 | Align and Advocate (A), Corporate Governance and Compliance | 0 comments

Humanity is the reason why there is laughter and fun in the workplace, it can make a community out of strangers and spur engagement.

Industry 4.0: Preparing for Modern Work

by Sonnie Santos | Aug 6, 2019 | Change Management | 0 comments

Industry 4.0 or the fourth industrial revolution (FIRe) will usher Work 4.0. The HR community needs to be on the forefront to prepare the organization.

#HRinHR: Human Rights In Human Resources

by Sonnie Santos | Jul 28, 2019 | Align and Advocate (A), Corporate Governance and Compliance | 4 comments

#HRinHR is an intervention meant to improve employee engagement, productivity and the bottomline

How HR Can Transition A Company To Social Business

by Sonnie Santos | Mar 23, 2016 | Accountable Leadership, Adaptive Thinking | 10 comments

Social Business is the strategic use of the internet, social and mobile apps by a company, to engage employees and clients.

Social Capital Is Good for People Management

by Sonnie Santos | May 8, 2015 | Knit and Kickstart (K) | 0 comments

Social capital is the goodwill that we invested to the community. This investment will yield favourable returns towards a positive public relations

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Sonnie Santos receiving the Pioneer Pillar of HR Award in the Philippines for his leadership and advocacy in strategic HR, digital ethics, and people development.

Sonnie Santos receiving the Pillar of HR Award — recognition for leadership and contributions to the Philippine HR community.

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Sonnie Santos with Family Zone Australia — promoting cyber wellness and digital parenting advocacy through ASKSonnie.INFO.

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Sonnie Santos with JobStreet Philippines — a collaboration promoting values-driven HR leadership and employee engagement in the workplace.

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