I am still a work in progress. I can consider myself successful when I see my childrencontributing to society.HOW does a top lady executive strike a balance between family and the highly demanding work of leading a major multi-national company?“I’m no ‘super mom’ but I strive to maintain a very strict schedule in dividing my time as a career woman and a wife and mother,” was the straightforward answer of NEC Philippine president Agnes Gervacio.“I never miss any of my daughter’s volleyball games and I still bring my young son to school,” she added with much deserved pride.Gervacio is the first Filipino and the first woman to lead the NEC Manila Branch Office of Japan’s renowned telecommunications and Information Communication Technology (ICT) company. NEC Philippines employs some 7,500 staffers and workers across its manufacturing, software development, and sales and marketing offices in Cebu and Manila.Indeed, Gervacio needs extra special skills to juggle her attention between corporate issues and family obligations. And impressively, according to friends and colleagues, she gracefully succeeds in both.Models all. Not only are these ladies role models of executive skills, they could be fashion models in their own right, as Marco Polo Ortigas GM Frank Reichenbach himself so described (from left) Marco Polo’s Judith Los Baños, TMT’s Blanca Mercado, Gervacio, Maritess Allen, and Gretchen FullidoAs a matter of fact, she is active in coaching and mentoring fellow Filipina executives at the Filipina CEO Circle (FCC), an exclusive group founded by a group of women executives focused on inspiring, mentoring and empowering Filipino women in business to achieve the top leadership posts in their respective industries.The FCC believes, as stated in its mission and vision, that “work-life balance may be a tough juggling act but perhaps what’s most important for the women of FCC is creating harmonious synergy between their roles as leaders, mothers, daughters and friends.”Agnes Gervacio may indeed be the closest to perfecting that example of harmonious synergy.
I am still a work in progress. I can consider myself successful when I see my children
I am still a work in progress. I can consider myself successful when I see my children