Impacting Peak Perpormance through play
IMPACTING PEAK PERPORMANCE THROUGH PLAY
What you Get
Innovative insights into your business needs
You first get to look at your own organizations in an objective and an optimistic way. Focusing on your organizations existing strengths, latent resources and history your visions get more pristine and brilliant. New ideas for charting to newer horizons become a byproduct of these insights.
Action plans devised and owned by your teams
Each and every insight that surfaces when gathering strengths and empowering your stories is, naturally, accompanied by multiple possibilities. When empowered by their own history people take on a ‘we can’ attitude and begin to map out plans and set goals owned by them for themselves.
Engagement that is ahead of what is possible
The heightened levels of engagement and clearer pathways ahead charges up your organizations for accelerated decision making and exponential capacities to take on risks and succeed.
How we Do it
How is our work
- UNEARTH
- CONVERT
- HARVEST
Unearth your current strengths and immerse into your needs: Beyond your typical surveys and psychometric assessments, ISLA sparks of live dialogues and open-hearted conversations and uses many facilitative processes like Open Space Technology, Deep Democracy and Appreciative Inquiry to not just explore but to awaken new ones.
Convert time-tested solutions and frameworks into mega-games: Using the elements and the ingredients gathered from uncovered strengths, refined visions + values and actions expressed by your people small and large games are designed. These games may compliment and align with your industry or be a creative contrast to your business such that twist makes the learning exciting and memorable.
Harvest insights and plans such that you own them: We address ourselves as facilitators of learning rather teachers, trainers or consultants. In every thought, words or actions our job at ISLA is that of to make your people think. We make our learners more than we show them. We show them more, if we do at all, than we tell. That is our undying motto.
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FIVE SOLUTIONS
We provide a complete list of best digital services
Amazing Customer Service
No matter how many models you follow and no matter how many best practices you chase, your organization has a heart and culture that is uniquely yours and thus the customers that you attract also have extremely unique needs. It then becomes a moral duty of your organization that your serve them such that it delights them to the bone. With Amazing Customer Experience, you can profile your customer with razor sharpness and then fill their needs employing your unique strengths and services. The whole process is thought provoking, insightful and helps you harvest your own resources and deploy them in such a way that every individual that walks from your touch claims that it was simply amazing.
Factory Mastery
Production floors and flows differ from one industry to another and the demands of all markets scream for faster, better and cheaper outputs all the time. Factories find it challenging to take the best practices and systems of one factory, one industry and apply it to another. With Factory Master, help your people learn to think fast, think with precision and accuracy for self-customized solutions to their own needs through creative play and experiential activities. Factory Master is a competitive experiential learning activity based program designed not just to enhance operational efficiency but to transcend all benchmarks.
Corporate Entrepreneurship
Whether we lie in the culturally hierarchical or flat part of the world, through all the ranks of a corporation, most major business decision making processes come to a halt with the statement, “let’s see what the big boss has to say about it.” And, every single business leader worth his salt, wishes that her people would only be able to see the world as she does and then go ahead and make those decisions. Alignment of visions, sense of ownership and the abilities to take everyday risks in business are the need and the call of the day as, globally, business units are becoming smaller, flatter and must become responsible for its own profits and losses. Corporate Entrepreneurship gives the risqué and the rugged edge to your most suave and sophisticated executives. The game also uncovers latent talent and hone and skill-up the business leaders of tomorrow.

Breakthrough Responses
A global pandemic has occurred and the world’s medical response teams must work together to contain it while a cure is being made. Participants are divided into teams of specialized: The dispatch teams that help efficiently send other teams to different locations, the operations team which is in charge of building infrastructure, the medical response team which is in charge of creating necessary infrastructure, the researchers who are in charge with collecting data on the virus, and finally scientists who are responsible for ultimately finding the cure. These teams must learn to coordinate if they are to succeed in their task.
Strong Links
A business organization is only as strong as all its parts are. The tendencies of most corporations is to focus out and keep scrambling forward and on to the next echelon of success, And, there is valuable wisdom in that. There is also much valuable wisdom at studying, streamlining and strengthening the back end of your business. Scores of businesses that have sustained their successes over decades have all had great partners and giant shoulders to lean upon through good times and bad times. Strong Links, the game, lets you immerse into building your core muscles and sustaining their flexibility and strengths through changing times.
Who we are
A team of seven primary consultants with a combined experience of over a 100 years. We hail from backgrounds of Philosophy, Industrial Psychology, Finance, Engineering, Marketing, Gamification and the Fine Arts We are dedicated to being by your sides when you find your way into your ideal future through interactive and insightful play

Raju Mandhyan
Author, Coach
Author of five books on Communications and Leadership, Cross-Cultural Coach and Learning Facilitator Raju Mandhyan has 20 years of experience in personal and organizational development. He has coached thousand of executives, delivered keynotes for hundreds of conferences across the APAC region.
He is certified in Neuro Linguistic Programming, Mind Mapping, Appreciative Inquiry, American Management Association’s Train the Trainer. He is also a Distinguished Toastmaster, Champion Speaker and the 2005-District Champion for Evaluations in the Philippines.
Prior to his consulting career, Raju spent two years as an Engineer, two years as a Financial Consultant and 17 years as the CEO of an International Mercantile company handling projects across the Mediterranean, Europe, Latin and North Americas. He has lived and worked in India, USA and now has made Philippines’ his home.

Adrian Martinez
Coach
Adrian Martinez remembers how things were before the Internet, and unlike many he has faith in what the future will bring. Socratic in his views, he believes that there is only one good: knowledge, and only one evil: ignorance.
Based on his IQ, he is a Mensan but by behavior and beliefs he is an extremely compassionate, sensitive and very high on Emotional Intelligence as a learning facilitator.
Since 1986 he has been facilitating learning in the areas of communications, leadership, language and other soft skills. He has worked with companies from industries ranging from banking to business process outsourcing.
He started as a trainer with Insular Life and has held the position of Training Manager for Sykes.

Armi Cortes
Coach
ISLA Consultant, Armi H. Cortes is the VP-Sales and Marketing at Manila Ocean Park and Hotel H2o, owned by China Oceanis Phils Inc. She is responsible for marketing and sales, corporate affairs and education/CSR programs for the theme park and hotel business. She also provides management assistance to the restaurant, bar and leasing business units of the company, and handles the training requirements of the marketing and sales teams.
She was the former Executive Managing Director for Institutional Marketing and Assistant Professor of the Asian Institute of Management. She taught subjects on management, marketing, leadership and information technology.
Prior companies that she worked with were Citibank NA (Global Finance), PhilEquity Fund Inc., and Philippine Development Bank of the Philippines (First E-Bank).
She has 30 years of experience in management, marketing, sales, operations, corporate affairs and training.

Jonette Valenciano
Coach
Jonette Valenciano is grateful to have leapt both feet first into the freelance artist and relationship coach life. This has taken her down many currents, and many roles - as an art teacher, comic book writer and illustrator, junior event organizer, social media manager, advertising copywriter, and more. Stories and story-making empower this published author and exhibited artist, whether by having served as a member of Komiket, mentoring younger independent creatives, or crafting and collaborating on stories for comic books, tabletop roleplaying games, and other forms of prose. At present, she spends most mornings as a relationship coach under RelationshipHero.com, and as an intuitive counselor with Empathy Unlimited. She continues to map out stories rooted in social issues, emotional health, compassion, kindness, and other forms of magic.

Jolline Pamatmat
Coach

Jay Mata
Coach
Jay Mata has had a passion for games and how it can be applied to learning for over a decade now. A graduate of De La Salle-College of St. Benilde with a degree in Business Administration majoring in Human Resource Management, He started as a process mastery trainer in IBM Business Services before becoming a high school and college teacher (mainly in entrepreneurship programs) all while studying ludology, the study of games, and its benefits.
As a co-owner of Ludo: Boardgame Bar & Café, one of the most prominent board game cafes in the country, Jay Mata started organizing game events for customers. These ranged from Murder Mystery Parties where participants had to investigate a fictional crime to more complex game systems such as mega-games: massive games designed for as many as 300 participants all playing the same game at once. The development of these designs has led him to partner up with Komikasi Games & Entertainment Inc. as well as Inner Sun Learning Academy to create gamified workshops for the corporate world. Today, he designs and facilitates games that teach a vast array of topics from entrepreneurship to customer service.

Janellyn Briones
Coach
ISLA Marketing Director Janellyn Briones, has a vast background in supporting businesses and professionals across the globe virtually. With the help of specialists, she provides general administrative support in the areas of Ecommerce, Digital Marketing and Social Media Management. Her core skills lay in one service and that is Lead Generation and Business Development across the world. She heads and owns two companies and communities, Connected by Humans and General Virtual Assistants (JB & Associates PH).
Years before becoming a business owner, Jan’s corporate experience include over a decade of providing Customer Service with BPO companies like - JP Morgan Chase & Co., Tata Consultancy Services, EnfraUSA, and Clientlogic/Sitel.