Ami Valdemoro Diaz
Managing Director, DA PhilippinesAmi Valdemoro Diaz is a leadership coach, sustainability advocate, and entrepreneur with over 18 years of experience leading and managing impact investments around the world. She ran the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Africa Tobacco Control Consortium, the philanthropy’s first non-communicable disease investment. As Executive Director, she helped to set up social impact investments for the first U.S.-registered Benefit corporation in the Philippines, Generation HOPE. She is the Co-Founder and sits on the Board of Directors of Liter of Light, a community-based solar lighting initiative that has empowered over one million beneficiaries a year around the world.
Background
Ami has designed and led leadership workshops based on Harvard University’s adaptive leadership model, educating thousands of students and professionals from across Asia on leadership, effective communication, and mobilizing teams for change. In her coaching practice, Ami guides purpose-driven leaders and executives to achieve breakthroughs in their performance so that they can lead and scale enterprises with a lasting impact.Â
Ami received her master’s degree from the Harvard Kennedy School, and graduated with honors from Georgetown University. She is a Mastery Method certified coach from the Institute for Coaching Mastery.