PRESS RELEASE
02 December 2014
The Career Executive Service Board celebrated the 41st institutional anniversary of the Career Executive Service (CES) last 12-14 November 2014 at the Water Front Cebu City Hotel and Casino. The event, entitled “CES Leadership in the Social Era: From Nation-Building to Global Governance”, was extremely attended by CES officers and eligible.
PPP Center’s Deputy Executive Director, Atty. Sherry Ann Austria, was invited as the key speaker in one of the multi-track CES Competency Development sessions with a theme “Public-Private Alignment, Convergence and Partnerships: The Way Forward”.
She shared the journey of the PPP Program and the challenges faced by the PPP Center as a leadership tool in demonstrating the lessons, experiences and innovations as a leader to promote and instill a culture of excellence, quality, performance effectiveness and accountability to achieve national development and global competitiveness.
“Our story shapes our culture, values and strategies within the organization,” she said.
In recollecting the challenges that PPP Center had to face during its early years, Atty. Austria stressed the importance of maintaining a positive attitude to keep its people inspired and hopeful.
“The PPP Center went through hardships in achieving its goals but the word ‘surrender’ has never been an option. From top to bottom, the people inside the PPP Center know the importance of what they are doing,” she added.
“With the accomplishments that the PPP Program has achieved so far, we are now impelled to act in ensuring its sustainability through the BOT Law amendment”, Deputy Executive Director Austria concluded.
