Next-gen leaders pin hopes on their next gen
MANILA, Philippines — The country’s conglomerates are seeing the next generation step into leadership roles.
As these next-generation leaders navigate a more complex and uncertain landscape, they share a common hope for the generation after them or their children: that they work with meaning and purpose, may it be for the family business or elsewhere.
At the 6th Management Association of the Philippines NextGen Conference, the next-generation leaders were asked whether they would want their child to work with them in the company.
SM Engineering Design and Development Corp. president Hans “Chico” Sy Jr., grandson of SM Group founder Henry Sy, said he wants his next generation to want to be part of the company because they believe in its purpose.
“I would like my next generation to want to work for me. That’s probably the most important. To inspire them, to make them believe and to be proud that they’re working for a deeper purpose,” he said.
Like Sy, PHINMA Solar Energy Corp. and Union Insulated Panel Corp. chief operating officer Danielle del Rosario, granddaughter of Ramon del Rosario Sr., said she also wants her children to want to work with her and the company by choice.
“I want them to be part of the legacy that we’re building. I want them so much to be part of what they’re doing, but they have to do it in their own way,” she said.
She said she wants her children to be able to come up with their own solutions and find their own path.
“If they want to do it in PHINMA, that’s great. If they want to do it somewhere else, that’s also great,” she said.
For his part, Jaime Alfonso Zobel de Ayala, CEO of the Ayala Group’s mobility solutions arm ACMobility, emphasized the importance of cultivating one’s personal purpose in leadership.
“What I would want my children to do is to really continue refining what their own personal purpose is because then they’ll have a clearer understanding about what kind of organization or what kind of impact they want to make beyond themselves,” said Zobel, the grandson of Jaime Zóbel de Ayala.
He said this would allow the next generation to find the group or institution that aligns with the outcomes they want to achieve.
“Whether that’s within the company or outside, if they’re clear that this is an organization that creates a certain outcome that they’re aligned with, that’s what I hope ends up happening,” he said.
He said parents want their children to feel fulfilled.
“You want them to have a path where they’re happy and they have their own mindset and they’re not afraid to fail and they’re very comfortable in how they develop as a person,” he said.
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