About Us

Fueled by his mission to produce more individuals and companies to achieve their full potential through continuous learning, Dean Pax Lapid led the creation of the Lead More Development Center, Inc.

Since its founding in 2013, Lead More has taught around 50,000 individuals who share the same desire to “Learn More, Earn More, and Live More.” Its advocacy to turn passion into profit has earned the trust and respect of its partners in both government and private organizations like Department of Trade and Industry, Philippine Trade and Training Center, Bro. Bo Sanchez Truly Rich Club, among others.

As it reaches its 5th year in the industry, Lead More has helped entrepreneurs in small and medium enterprises (SME) address their business concerns. They have also helped career professionals transition to entrepreneurs. With its wide network, Lead More combines workshops, mentorships with opportunities to access innovative financing facilities, varied market strategies and platform, and creative and advanced technology.

The pool of mentors are entrepreneurs/practitioners with education from top business schools in the country. They specialize in entrepreneurship and business development, organizational development, marketing and sales.

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MENTORS

Dean Pax Lapid, PhD

Entrepreneurship Mentor, AIM Professor, Business Consultant & Bestselling Author.

Acclaimed as one of the most celebrated professional speakers and business consultants in the country, Dean Pax Lapid specializes in strategic management, business development, enterprise creation and growth, financial wellness, and family corporation growth. He is the Dean of Entrepreneurship Circle of Bo Sanchez’s Truly Rich Club and a lead advocate of the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship Foundation Inc.–Go Negosyo. He is also an adjunct faculty on Entrepreneurship at the Asian Institute of Management. Another notch in the Dean’s achiever’s belt is his reputation as a bestselling author of four books: How to Become a Happy Retiree: A Guide to Retiring Wealthy and Worthy in your 40s; How to Turn Your Passion into Profit: 8 Keys to Build a Truly Rich Business, co-authored with Bo Sanchez; Go Negosyo: 21 Hakbang sa Pagsisimula ng Sarili Mong Negosyo; and Go Negosyo: 21 Steps on How to Start Your Own Business, co- authored with Ping Sotto.

Marites Dimaculangan

Business Finance Mentor, & AIM Alumnae.

Maria Teresita “Marites” Dimaculangan is one of the founders of Dimaculangan and Company CPAs’, a highly-acclaimed CPA firm in the Philippines. She is a living testament that with hard work, dedication, and passion, a micro enterprise can turn into a growing medium-sized firm that continues to provide excellent financial services. Graduating from the University of Santo Tomas (UST) and the Asian Institute of Management (AIM), Marites has held positions and memberships at various CPA associations. She is a lecturer of entrepreneurship, mentor at Go Negosyo, and volunteer at the Philippine National Red Cross.

Carlo Calimon

Serial Entrepreneur, AIM Alumnus & Business Mentor.

He studied Economics at Ateneo de Manila University and Business Administration at AIM, where he also served as professor. In 2015, Carlo was awarded as one of the 100 Most Influential Global Marketing Leaders. He founded in 2013 MobKard, a mobile and web application that helps merchants and customers connect and engage with each other real time via a digital mobile card. He is also the director of LETS GO Foundation, a consultant of the Department of Education and the International Labour Organization, and an Angelpreneur of GoNegosyo.

Karen Pacia

One of the founders and Digital Marketing Director of WE ENGAGE, Blogger & Momfluencer. Keynote Speaker. Shopify Partner. Foodie. Travel Junkie. Writer/Columnist on Home & Technology for Manila Bulletin. Digital Marketing & Communications Consultant for USAID.

Education and continuous improvement are a passion of hers, which is why Karen continuously creates and shares infographics plus research for her audience to be cognizant of current and emerging digital marketing technologies, including social media, email, web and analytics, and marketing automation. She participates in numerous forums and conferences on Digital Marketing Technologies and Trends.

Paulo Tibig

CEO and President of Vcargo worldwide, Crown Gas, President – Orange Haul Inc., Director (2016-2022), Freeport Area of Bataan, Board of Regent, Bataan Peninsula State University, and Honorary Member, Young Entrepreneurs Society (Worldwide)

He received the 2014 Asean Business Award Philippines, Young Entrepreneur Award, the First Asean Business Award in the Philippines to recognize enterprises in the country that have contributed to the growth and prosperity of the ASEAN economy. He was also given the 2014 Philippine Marketing Association AGORA Awards, Outstanding Achievement in Entrepreneurship for Medium Scale Category. The Agora award is the beacon of Filipino marketing excellence that spotlights admirable qualities of versatility, innovativeness and ingenuity. He is 2014 Asean Business Award, Runner-up Most Admired Asean Enterprise for Young Entrepreneur held at Myanmar. This award recognize Asean business entity with outstanding performance in the Asean region and having made significant progress in establishing and reinforcing their position in the international business arena.

Jorge Noel Y. Wieneke III

Potato Corner Co-Founder, 2017 Agora Awardee: Outstanding Achievement for Entrepreneurship Small Enterprise, Vice President for Membership of the Association of Filipino Franchisors, Inc. (AFFI),

His involvement academe includes as Program Director for Entrepreneurship at the Professional Academy for Culinary Education, Faculty and Program Director for Franchise Management, Retail Management and Restaurant Management of Ateneo Center for Continuous Education (CCE). Jorge is a long-standing GoNegosyo Angelpreneur and Speaker, and ASEAN Mentor. He is the founder of KalyeNegosyo, his personal advocacy that mentors micro-entrepreneurs at the grassroots level, President of Buy-The-Bucket Inc, President of JWieneke Food Corp., proponent of Tokyo Tempura

Apollo Sangalang

Business Lawyer, Labor Law Coach, and Professional Speaker

For 24 years, Atty. PoL has been actively engaged in the practice of law, assimilating extensive experience from both the private and government sectors. He specializes in the fields of business law and labor law. He mentors junior lawyers, human resource practitioners and entrepreneurs. After his stint as host of the radio show “Equal Justice” at DZRJ 810AM, he founded in 2016 the Sangalang & Gaerlan, Business Lawyers, a 5-lawyer firm based in Quezon City with WIN With INtegrity (WIN-WIN) as motto. Its training arm, the Paladins of Leadership and Wisdom, Inc. (“Paladins of Law”), conducts regular affordable public seminars on business law and labor law under the tagline: “Labor Law Made Easy” and “Business Law Made Easy.”

Jenny Wieneke

An industry leader, former President, Vice-President and Board Director of the Association of Accredited Advertising Agencies of the Philippines (4As) and the Ad Standards Council, Consultant for DTI, Kapatid Mentor Me Mentor

Jenny Wieneke is an advertising expert with over 27 years of experience building and handling multi-national and local brands ranging from food, pharmaceuticals, personal care, telecommunications and alcohol. In all her years in the business, Jenny has been immersed in Above-the-line, Below-the-Line, PR as well as digital in the following agencies: PAC-BBDO, Lintas Manila, Draft FCB and Publicis Manila, with integrated marketing as her specialty. A people person with many talents, Jenny has been in the forefront of the advertising industry as the President, Vice-President and Corporate Secretary and Board Director of the Association of Accredited Advertising Agencies of the Phil (4As) for the past 5 years. A PCE-GoNegosyo mentor since 2015, Jenny has been going around the country teaching micro-entrepreneurs the basics of Marketing.

Vix Madlangbayan

Angelpreneur of Gonegosyo, Certified ASEAN Mentor, Special Programs Consultant of Gonegosyo

Agribusiness by heart, Vix ventured with his late mentor, Reuel K. Virtucio, as managing partner for a social enterprise called Manok Mabuhay Inc., working with farmers in a supply chain model with Bounty Agro Ventures Inc. He also delivered talks on entrepreneurship and demystifying community-based enterprise models to his audience for ten years. Vix is a Angelpreneur of Gonegosyo since 2010 and has been helping to spread entrepreneurial revolution around the country as its on-call resource speaker. A certified ASEAN Mentor by the ASEAN Business Advisory Council, he is also the Community Enterprise Development Consultant for Piddig, Ilocos Norte.

Henry Tenedero

2015 President of the Philippine Marketing Association, GoNegosyo Angelpreneur Affiliate, International Educator

Henry Tenedero is an acknowledged international educator, training facilitator, inspirational and motivational speaker. he graduated from the Faculty of Arts and Letters in University of Santo Tomas and acquired his Master's Degree in Development Management at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM). As a human development advocate, Henry Tenedero firmly believes that we should lead, teach and learn beyond the curriculum by educating the compassionate heart, not just the thinking mind, and develop human soft skills, not just memorize learning.

Armand Bengco

Angelpreneur of Gonegosyo, Pioneer Mentor of Asean Mentors for Entrepreneurship Network, Financial Literacy & Entrepreneurship Advocate, Lead Financial Literacy Advocate

Mr. Bengco regularly conducts seminars and workshops in line with the Colayco Foundation’s advocacy of financial literacy for Filipinos. He is part of GoNegosyo-Phil. Center for Entrepreneurship (PCE) as its resource speaker on personal financial matters. Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) has accredited him as one of its trainors in its Mentor ME program covering the topics of Entrepreneurial Mindset and Marketing 101. Recently he was made part of the Pioneer Mentors for the ASEAN Mentorship for Entrepreneurship Network.

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