Josefa Rizalina M. Bautista, Ph.D.

Mentor

Josefa Rizalina (Jo) M. Bautista started her OD journey at the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP), where, rising from the ranks as Project Officer to eventually be among its roster of Vice Presidents, she served from 1988 to 1999 in organic capacity and moved on as consultant from 2000-2007 to revive its then mothballed Public Management Graduate Program (DAP-MPM). In this journey, she has engaged in program and project development and implementation in the fields of environment and sustainable development- forming the still active DAP environment program; human resource development- with a stint asVP of the DAP HRD Department; and local governance, among others- with a stint as VP of its Center for Local Governance and Sustainable Development. Aside from program management and teaching roles as faculty of the DAP MPM, she has served in a good number of thesis advising roles. This faculty role got even extended in teaching stints with the Philippine Missionary Institute for several semesters.

While DAP work was mainly providing consultancy services for government, she also had fulltime roles within the government machinery: initially, as a fresh graduate working for short fulltime stints at the University of the Philippines College of Public Administration and the Foreign Service Institute and a 2 year role as Information Officer at the Bureau of National and Foreign Information. Thereafter, retiring from DAP before rejoining it as consultant to revive its public management graduate program, she held a short Executive position at the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS).

She currently wears two major hats:as School Administrator/President of her church school, the Imus Unida Christian School, and, as Field Program Director of the US based charity, Sacred Harvest Foundation. Engaged for at least 6 years in both roles, she has applied and further honed years of OD work as management consultant, process facilitator and investigator-writer, which has likewise found major contributions in her various past part time consultancies with the Ramon Magsaysay Foundation, Galing Pook Foundation, a number of local government and national government entities, and the private and NGO sectors, as well as in her different leadership roles at the Imus Unida Church.

Her varied responsibilities in development work has brought her to many parts of the Philippines as consultant, and in all the major Mindanao islands as the SHF Philippine Field Director, lending project development and mentoring to community development organizations. She has likewise travelled to many US and European cities in pursuit of sustainable development and environment studies.

Aside from being a sports enthusiast, and a Bible teacher, her passion remains to be in leadership mentoring and engaging organizations and groups towards realizing desired aspirations.

Being a product of the University of the Philippines through all her years of study from pre school to completing her Masters in Public Administration, her sense of nationhood and giving back is key to her continuing service orientation. Gaining her Doctorate in Organizational Development in SAIDI has further cemented this mission orientation as a change agent in the service of others for the glory of God.