Level Up Leadership presents

The Winning Edge: Next Gen Leadership

A full-day personal excellence and leadership experience for professionals at any stage, built around clear thinking, self-leadership, generational intelligence, wise decisions and resilient growth.

9:00 AM Manila time · Rockwell Palm Grove · Online via Zoom

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The Winning Edge: Next Gen Leadership

Wednesday, 21 October 2026 · Rockwell Palm Grove · Online via Zoom

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Full-day on-site participation, networking, meals, materials and replay.

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  • Lunch, coffee and snacks
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The human edge

Why Level Up

Information is abundant. The edge now belongs to people who can think clearly, use technology wisely, lead themselves under pressure, communicate across generations, and make values-driven decisions.

About the day

Why this day, why now

The work is changing. The human edge still matters.

These figures describe the pressure around Filipino workplaces. They do not predict what will happen to any one person or job.

12.7M

Philippine jobs potentially exposed to GenAI

Exposure does not mean replacement. The ILO says the likelier effect is transformation of tasks, with a much smaller share in the highest-risk group.

ILO research

39% / 50%

Engaged at work / stressed much of yesterday

Gallup's Philippines data puts engagement and daily stress side by side: people are contributing while carrying real pressure.

Gallup country data

65% / 35%

Critical thinking / clear leadership alignment

Among Filipino AI users in Microsoft's 2026 survey, critical thinking led the human skills named, while far fewer reported clear, consistent alignment.

Microsoft research

Watch

A minute inside the room.

Highlights from the last Level Up Leadership day. Vimeo

What the day covers

One day. Five connected practices.

Five parts of your personal excellence operating system.

Lead practice 01 / 05

Think clearly

Strengthen critical thinking, attention and sound judgment when information is abundant.

02

Lead yourself

Build emotional intelligence and steadiness before pressure decides for you.

03

Lead others

Communicate across generations with clarity, trust, accountability and respect.

04

Choose well

Navigate ambiguity with values, practical wisdom and both-and thinking.

05

Keep learning

Turn disruption into resourceful action, reflection and resilient growth.

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Your facilitator

Francis Kong

One of the most sought-after speakers in the Philippines, Francis Kong has spent more than three decades in front of rooms full of leaders — from family businesses to multinationals — and has trained tens of thousands of them.

He is an author, a broadcaster and a business leader who still runs one. That is the difference people notice: the material is not theory collected from books, it is what he has had to do himself, said plainly enough to use on Monday.

30+
years on the platform
Author
and columnist
Daily
radio and podcast

What you carry back to work

Built to be used tomorrow.

The day is designed around practical ways to think, talk and choose—not just ideas that sound good inside the room.

01

Decision filters

Separate what is urgent from what is important, test assumptions, and choose what is true, wise, ethical and worth doing.

02

Conversation tools

Create clarity, trust, accountability and support across roles, ages and working styles.

03

Reframing and action

Interpret uncertainty, combine AI with human judgment, and turn reflection into a concrete next step.

Level Up participants learning and exchanging ideas in a workshop. Level Up participants learning and exchanging ideas in a workshop.

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What is The Winning Edge: Next Gen Leadership about?

A full-day personal excellence and leadership experience for professionals at any stage, built around clear thinking, self-leadership, generational intelligence, wise decisions and resilient growth.

Who is it for?

Professionals at any stage: individual contributors, managers, entrepreneurs, business owners, team leaders and people preparing for greater responsibility.

Where and how will it run?

It runs on 21 October 2026 from 9:00 AM (Manila time), with on-site and online tickets on sale now. Rockwell Palm Grove · Online via Zoom.

Will there be group or company options?

Yes. Group rates apply automatically at checkout: 10% off from 5 seats, 12% from 11, 15% from 16 and 20% from 21. Corporate, alumni and partnership inquiries are welcome.

After the day

Keep the edge moving.

Continue at your own pace, or bring the work directly into your organization.

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Keep going

One day is a start, not the whole of it.

UpNext is where the work carries on: courses taken at your own pace, live classes with the people who taught them, and a certificate at the end that says what you actually did.

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For your own team

Run this inside your company.

Much of what we do is not a public event at all. Tell us who your people are and what you need to shift, and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right ones to do it.

Tell us what you need