Marisol Lopez Eala
Raised in a traditional Filipino family environment, Marisol was told to take up a business course by her parents. So she took up Economics in College. Not being a true choice, she had a difficult mid-life crisis, and so to understand herself better, decided to resign from her work in the Bank, go back to school at the age of 40, taking up her Masters in Counseling Psychology. She saw how important the journey to knowing one's true Self was, so together with her friends, set up a training business focusing on Leadership Transformation. As a life-time learner, she continued to equip herself with the latest in change methodologies to help her clients, like Systems Thinking and Theory U. Her company hosted Dr. Otto Scharmer to conduct a Presencing Foundation Program in the Philippines in 2005. She co-founded the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) in the Philippines in 2009. After graduating from the PI Masterclass in 2012 with her late husband Gody Eala, they set up The Rizal Academy for Innovation and Leadership (TRAIL) which applies Systems Thinking and Theory U in a 3-month Executive Coaching Program, with clients from Business, Government and Civil Society. This year, TRAIL partnered up with the Order of the Knights of Rizal, a 65 year-old patriotic organization mandated by law to propogate the memory and legacy of the Philippines' National Hero, Dr. Jose Rizal. With this partnership, Marisol hopes to embed Awareness-based Systems Change for Nation-Building by assisting more Filipinos actualize their highest potential for a brighter future. She is also one of the MIT-IDEAS Asia Pacific local faculty from the Philippines for the first batch of Fellows, 2022-2023.