By Fatima Mateo
‘Innovation in Governance Academy’ is a special capability development program launched AEV Corporate External Relations in 2017. It focuses on promoting a culture of innovation and excellence in governance and public management. In 2020, as COVID-19 disrupted workplace settings, the team continued to hold the program virtually to adjust to the new normal way of doing things.
Last May 27, the first virtual version of the workshop was launched as ‘#NewNormalReadyPh Digital Learning Series 1: Shaping Our New Normal’, an 8-module series aimed at contributing to the individual development of its participants by equipping them with the right mindset, knowledge, and skills to articulate policy challenges, develop innovative solutions and interventions, and ensure effective execution with the end goal of delivering greater value to the country and the Filipino people especially in these trying times.

Aboitiz & NUCESO Virtual Fora
Three virtual workshops were also conducted for the National Union of Career Executive Services Officers (NUCESO). Another successful collaboration towards a #NewNormalReadyPH. Aboitiz is the first institutional member of NUCESO from the private sector.
The NUCESO Board of Trustees, thru the undersigned, would like to express its profound gratitude and appreciation to Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Inc., and to its officers for the successful holding and conduct of NUCESO webinars.
We have received commendations and acclamations from various agencies-participants on the contents and timeliness of the webinars. Hence, we take this opportunity to share with you, as well, this success and the exuberance brought about by our continuing partnership and commitment to deliver pro-active services in the face of the present difficulties and challenges.
–AES Atty. Lynn Danao-Moreno, CESO II, National President, NUCESO

#NewNormalReadyPH: A Promising Program for the Public Sector
The #NewNormalReadyPH Learning Series 1 gathered 370 registrants representing 27 government agencies nationwide. In a time when all of us must adapt to the new normal way of doing things, the Aboitiz Innovation in Governance Academy heeded the call by providing an 8-week program that delivered purposive and relevant 12 online courses to assist our partners in the public sector. We are one with the national government in shaping positively our new normal, innovating to find ways to drive change for a better and new normal-ready Philippines. This is a commitment of the Aboitiz Group to nation building and our corporate social responsibility, in line with our brand promise of advancing business and communities.
