Mark Joseph Cancino

Ideaversify is a human resources and organization development consultancy that partners with organizations to diversify ideas and transform people strategies into impactful results. We believe that the only way to achieve great results is by providing our people meaningful opportunities to reach their potential. [Invest Solution Hub] Let us invest candidates in your organization through targeted search, so they will inspire the organization to achieve great results. [Design Solution Hub] Let us design your talent management and organization development interventions, so your talents will develop the right competencies relevant to your strategies. [Engage Solution Hub] Let us engage your talents through learning programs and workshops, so they will experience the spirit of your culture powering your strategy. [Advance Solution Hub] Let us advance your talents through coaching and leadership development, so they will accelerate their growth as future leaders of the organization.

Serves as a Lecturer of Strategic Human Resources Management, Leading Teams for Innovation, and Work Practicum in the Leadership and Strategy Department of the John Gokongwei School of Management

• Served as strategic partner to the managers and leaders • Designed and implemented the performance management system across affiliates • Conducted organization review and job evaluation program to align roles to organizational strategy • Facilitated strategic planning sessions with the management committee • Managed the talent management and development programs

Served as a lecturer for Workplace Communucation and Speech courses in the Communication Division

Served as a Lecturer of Human Resources Management, Social Responsibility, and Business Communication in the Business and Real Estate Management - School of Business and Liberal Arts

• Designed the institutional leadership development program for people managers and leaders across levels • Partnered with external providers of executive leadership program to implement the internal-designed curriculum

• Designed the DEEP pillars strategy - Discover, Engage, Educate, Publish, and launched the first people management research conference, hackathon - to promote a data-driven and research-based culture among HR professionals • Designed the leadership development curriculum for the PMAP Future Leaders Program anchored on appreciating the field of people management, implementing people management strategies, leading the business through its people - awarded as the best committee

• Worked alongside our HR Team in driving continuous improvement for existing HR processes and policies, and ensure that Canva Manila’s HR foundations are seamlessly up and running; • Helped build a world-class people strategy that fully embodies our philosophies around empowerment, “minimum viable structure”, and goal-driven organisation design while contributing your unique insights from an HR perspective; • Partnered with one of the biggest specialties at Canva which is the Design and Engineering teams and will work closely with other specialties like Product, Growth, and Customer Support; • Supported our specialty leads to develop and roll out programs to help with hiring, onboarding, individual and team growth and development, designing and delivering learning programs, performance, and HR issues; • Drove high performance within the specialty, proactively driving strategies to increase engagement and retention; • Identified problems and opportunities for specialties, and work with our broader People team to leverage the available resources, help prioritise and plan our People roadmap, and fill the gaps with immediate short-term solutions; • Helped move along and drive People initiatives across our specialties, and develop strong relationships; • Guided and coached leaders on the full gamut of HR issues (hiring and talent planning, performance management, compensation and rewards etc.); • Worked closely with the founders and leadership team to gain a deep understanding of business goals and priorities, and ensure that we have the right talent in place to achieve them; • Ensured there is integration across the People team, business, team and specialty leadership, and feed-back specialty needs and challenges; and • Handled sensitive issues and be a trusted advisor/support within a specialty.

• Led the company’s organization development, talent management, labor relations, and employee engagement and communications functions. • Developed and managed the Strategic Business Partnering Program that aims to develop assistants to serve as Human Resources partners to the Operations teams • Worked with the Learning and Development team on the design, development, execution, and evaluation of the whole Talent Development Program • Conducted organization diagnosis and works with functions to implement interventions to address business needs • Reviewed plantilia, organizational structure, and job descriptions of roles in alignment to business needs • Managed the organization’s performance management system, employee movements, talent mapping, career-pathing, and succession planning • Led the cross-functional team in the inventory management project to address the variances in the food business of the company through drafting of policies and establishing of standards • Worked with the Total Rewards Team in decreasing the turnaround time in the release of the final pay in compliance with the labor law declaration • Served as the function’s internal control in reviewing current and drafting relevant policies to support the business and functions • Reviewed company practices in compliance with the company code of conduct, code of discipline, code of ethics, and Labor Code of the Philippines • Managed the end to end process of handling labor cases: review of incident report, issuance of notice to explain, assessment of written reply, conduct of administrative hearing, consultation with the legal department on decisions on special cases, issuance of notice of decision, and ensures proper administration of the corresponding sanctions for the identified violations

Research Interests: Sustainable Leadership Development, Lifelong Learning, Learning Culture, Organizational Learning, Learning Organization, Sustainable Education

Thesis: Connect, Communicate, Coach: Developing a Remote Managerial Coaching Competency Instrument from an Interpersonal Communication Perspective

Magna cum laude Consistent University/College Scholar Finished college in 3.5 years Electives in Business Administration and Psychology Thesis: Relationships among Organizational Culture, Motivation, and Organizational Commitment as Perceived by Selected NGO Employees