| THE AYALA WAY

Vol 6 No 66 · 25 Jun 2025

“Let’s lead with our true colors—and make care the metric that sets BPI apart.”

GINA EALA
BPI Chief HR Officer

INSPIRE EXCELLENCE

‘Nurturing Spirit’: The 2025 BPI ELITE Summit

Leadership doesn’t begin with strategy; it begins with one’s self. And when leaders lead from within, they don’t just deliver results—they shape legacies.

Guided by the Bank of the Philippine Islands’ C.H.A.N.G.E. (Customer Obsession, High Performance, Aspiration, Nurturing Spirit, Growth Mindset, Excellence) leadership framework, the 2025 ELITE Summit brought together nearly one thousand of the bank’s senior leaders for a journey in self-awareness, empathy, and impact. Experts from McKinsey & Company, Ateneo de Manila University, and Asian Institute of Management, as well as global artist Red Hong Yi and actor Jon Santos, engaged them to reflect on and reimagine what it truly means to lead—and to renew their commitment to leading with care, authenticity, and human connection.

Since the summit, a multi-month movement has been embedding human-centered leadership throughout the organization. In May, the ELITE Watch Party Cascade brought the summit’s core sessions to life across 28 learning runs in face-to-face and virtual formats. More leaders have since joined the experience, deepening their connection to the BPI’s vision, mission, and NICE values through videos, reflection, and weekly C.H.A.N.G.E. leadership challenges.

Participants of the BPI ELITE Summit, held in April, focused on building their “Nurturing Spirit” competency; the program recently won a Bronze Stevie Award for Innovation in Internal (Corporate)

BPI President and CEO TG Limcaoco, with the bank’s senior leadership team, underscored vulnerability, empathy, and shared humanity as leadership essentials critical to realizing BPI’s vision of “building a better Philippines, one family and one community at a time.”

Learnings from the summit reached broader audiences across the organization through the ELITE Watch Party Cascade that started in May