06 January 2010
The BEST Team is honored and privileged to have these personalities, who do best in their own fields of expertise, to provide advice and direction to the company.
ED SUTHERLAND
Private Sector and Organizational Development Specialist
Ed has more than 20 years experience in international development, including 10 years as an on-site project manager in SE Asia. He has worked as a technical advisor to government training divisions throughout the Caribbean basin. In Africa he provided technical support on the establishment and on-going operation of a regional organization supporting the Central Banks of eleven countries.
Ed has owned and operated a number of businesses in Canada and worked as a consultant to national organizations, government agencies and numerous small businesses. He is a published author and for several years was a motivational speaker at conferences and business conventions.
Ed has a MSc in Business Management from Loughborough University in the UK and was a PhD candidate in Adult Education at Florida State University, USA. He taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in Canada and the US and was Director of Development for Malaspina College in British Columbia.
BIG LLOYD LUNA
Career Philosopher, Author, Columnist
He has been inspiring more than 50,000 people every year, writing more than 100 business and management columns for newspapers and magazines around the world, and speaking to more than 30,000 audiences on career, business, and personal development each year around the country.
He was described as “the man on effective career planning” by The Manila Times, “a life-saver for those who are confused in the uncertain, always-changing workplace” by The Manila Bulletin, “inspiring real-life story-teller” by ABS-CBN’s Karen Davila, “a very young, visionary entrepreneur who is becoming a strong brand in the industry” by RFM Corporation’s Joey Concepcion, “meaningful and relevant author” by Jollibee’s Manny Lumba, “an advocate of good news” by BBC World Financial News Anchor Rico Hizon.
He’s one of the “four successful people at age 25” featured on Rated K by Korina Sanchez aired over ABS-CBN and The Filipino Channel in March this year and has been a topic of in-depth profiles in The Manila Bulletin, Philippine Daily Inquirer, ABS-CBN, DZMM, and other magazines around the country.
“Big,” awarded as a Collegiate Ambassador for Peace in Seoul, Korea in 2007 and cited as the youngest international journalist of the XV International Aids Conference in Bangkok, Thailand in 2004, is a columnist of The Manila Times, Mr. and Ms. in Business Magazine, Good News Pilipinas in Singapore, Kabayan Star in Hong Kong, and The Filipino Times and Asian Review in the United States; a business consultant to start-up companies; Internet strategist to top 500 corporations; and the website architect of GONEGOSYO.net.
“His other inspirational books are Do You Have a Life of Your Own? (LLOYDLUNA Publishers, 2006); Break Me Up and Tachniques (LLOYDLUNA Publishers, 2007). He is the creator of The Roads to Success (LLOYDLUNA Publishers, 2007) and the bestselling author of the book Is There A Job Waiting For You? (LLOYDLUNA Publishers, 2005)
He is president and CEO of LLOYDLUNA Communications and the founder of Webdeology Technologies.