The Finish Line - Farewell P&G

Endings are also beginnings. You just don’t know it at that time. (from the book The Five People You Meet in Heaven)

Today is my last working day in Procter & Gamble Philippines. I am honored for the opportunity to Touch and Improve Lives for the last 24 years through this great company who nurtured me (and my family) and provided me with boundless opportunities.

When I moved from R&D to Cabuyao Plant Product Supply 20 years ago, all I wanted was to be able to continue my passion for process development. But destiny brought me into diverse paths and with the encouragement and coaching of several Cabuyao Lead Team,  mentors/advisers who became my life-long friends and my leaders’ trust in my capability and potentials – I have gone into various paths that brought me out of comfort zone many times over. And yet, those difficult assignments molded me to become a leader and to be a woman for others.

Where R&D was my P&G birthplace, Cabuyao will always be the home where I grew up to become a leader- which I humbly hoped – you deserved, and where I gave the best years of my life.

I would like to thank the leaders who became a significant part of my journey and their friendship that lasted even beyond P&G walls – my 1st mentor Jas Peralta, Nilo Siongco, Raul Nicdao, Mike Tan, the late Jazz Ramiro, Ed Macias, Laura Jensen, Anna Vicencio, Nancy Qin, Dawn Garibaldi and Fanny Wu.

I am also grateful to the key leaders and plant managers who influenced the key turning points of my career – Doug Wood, Sam Garcia and Fanny Wu; Nancy Qin whom I met in my early years and have witnessed me grow from Site Packaging Leader to Operations Department Manager to Supply Chain Manager to Regional Pillar leader; and to Peter Orji and Nancy for supporting me in my LOA last year, guided the last 2+ years in our Quality transformation and in this final ask.

To the QA team - to lead Quality requires leadership for sure, but also entails courage to uphold doing the right thing, as well as commitment and belief to the sworn mandate of quality assurance. I also learned from you and through all of you, that when a team is solid and comes together to help each other, nothing is so difficult. Continue supporting, uplifting one another and #StayingTogether. Always remember that I believe in you.

I also thank all of you whom I worked with through the years and the teams and organizations whom I served. Thank you for believing in the vision; for embracing them with pride and working together to be among the best and brightest of our time.

It has been an honor working with and for all of you - the great people of P&G / Cabuyao Plant. I wish you more power in your journey ahead. Thank you for the friendship and the memories. 

AD ASTRA, PER ASPERA.

Everyday, before I leave the Plant, I glance at the Twin Laundry Towers.
Its presence is an assurance that P&G will continue to be a #forceforgood.
Today, I will glance at the towers for the last time as a P&Ger.
"Here's looking at you, kid!"

My New Hire Poster
P&G has been my dream company ever since that fateful day
when I attended the Engineering Week career talk and the keynote speaker
was a UST ChE alumnus who is also a P&G Manager.
Rest is history.

This collage is a tribute to the teams/organizations I worked with and to my mentors through the years.

Farewell tribute from the P&G CBY QA Team last August 12, 2020
I could not have asked for a better team.
Thank you for making my last moments in P&G a very memorable one.