EJ Zara has extensive professional experience in line with Sales and Marketing for various niche markets which include the Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW), Group and Corporate accounts and Direct Database and Affinity sector. Key areas of strength include sales, marketing, events planning, management support, training, training needs analysis and design, business development and implementation, strategic management, organizational design and structuring, monitoring, control and human resource development.

 

Presently, EJ is the Management Director of a firm that specializes in leadership, strategic planning, coaching and learning and development solutions. As a trainer, EJ delivers high-powered globally accredited Professional Development trainings to various local and SEA clients. Among the trainings that he conducts are: Leaders Window, Five Choices, First Things First, Building Teams, Conflict Management, Change Management, etc. EJ was also a professor at the Enderun Colleges and the College of St. Benilde where he taught the theories of Management and Marketing and Strategic Management as part of the curriculum of these schools.

Throughout his sales career, EJ was involved in Strategic planning and analysis of Philamlife’s below-the-line promotions and events marketing campaigns in congruence with corporate year-to-year plans, effective implementation of non-traditional campaigns in support of approved strategic plans making sure that coordinated activities achieve maximum impact on premium production.
 

Early on in his career, EJ was a Human Resources Associate (Recruitment and Employee Relations) and Business Unit Planner for a top semiconductor company in the Philippines. EJ’s outstanding educational credentials include a Certificate in Global Leadership from the Thunderbird School of Management in Arizona, a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Ateneo de Manila Graduate
School of Business where he was awarded a Silver Medal for Academic Excellence. He is also a graduate with honors from the University of the Philippines with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Psychology.

 

He also has been awarded certification in Executive and Life Coaching by the American Management Association (AMA) and currently pursing a Professional Coach Certification (PCC) by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). In 2022, he also completed his PhD in Leadership and Organizational Development at the Ateneo Loyola Schools.