AGENDA

Digna Lacuanan: GA President, Soliciting Officer

Ed Deutschlander: CEO, North Star Resource Group

Q & A with Ed Deutschlander: Leadership questions from YOU!

GAMA CEO, Bonnie Godsman will host an open forum for YOU, the leaders to ask Ed anything relating to key trends affecting the industry.

Liu Ching Yi Etta: Senior Regional Manager, Prudential Hong Kong Limited

How to Be an Effective Manager

This presentation is tailored for insurance managers, focusing on deeply understanding team members’ motivations and strengths, transforming average agents into top producers, and implementing effective talent retention strategies to enhance team performance and stability. It provides practical methods to help managers gain deep insights into their team, unlock potential, and retain top talent through optimized management and motivation mechanisms, driving long-term success.

Lester Angelo Reyes: Financial Wealth Branch Manager, FWD Life

Content with Intent: How I Found My Voice to Sell, Serve, and Start Leading

You don’t need to be the loudest in the room to be heard—you just need to be intentional. Lester Angelo Reyes shares his transformation from an introvert hiding “behind-the-scenes” to a visible, influential voice in the financial planning space. Through authentic content and consistent action, he remains to be a consistent COT Qualifier while being the Top Manager and Top Recruiter in his company. Whether you’re a quiet achiever or someone unsure how to start with content, this session will show you how to use your story, strategy, and sincerity to sell, serve, and start leading—on your own terms.

Slava Isayev: CEO and Founder, GreenWave Commissions

Commissions: 5 Steps To Turning Your Biggest Operational Headache Into Your Competitive Advantage

Natchanath (Nat) Limpichai: District Manager, Chubb Life Assurance Public Company Limited

From Struggle to System: Building a Scalable Team with the 3P Framework

We started as a small team—eager but unsure, working hard but not always working smart. Everything changed when we discovered a framework that helped us build real structure: the 3P Model – People, Process, Platform.

By grouping 10 key leadership principles into these three core pillars, we found the clarity we needed to grow and scale.

This session is a real-life account of how our team shifted from confusion to clarity, and from trying hard… to working smart, together.

If you’ve been building a team without the results you want, maybe it’s not about trying harder— it’s about shifting your system. Let’s unlock what truly works.

Angelo Joy Banta: Executive Unit Head, AXA Philippines

The MDRT Machine: How Managers Create Consistent MDRT

What separates managers who occasionally produce MDRTs from those who do it consistently? This session breaks down the four things every leader must do: take ownership, set the standard, coach with structure, and build purpose driven pressure. Learn how to turn systems into results, goals into missions, and pressure into purpose. Walk away with replicable habits, practical coaching strategies, and a mindset that creates MDRTs not by chance, but by design.

Hessam Emami: CEO, Omid Afarinan Zendegi Pasargad

From 2 to 2000: Principles of Building a High-Performance Team

In this session, attendees will discover the core principles behind building a powerful sales team. The presentation will focus on four critical pillars of team development: recruiting the right people, delivering impactful education, retaining talent through motivation and purpose, and developing agents into future leaders. Participants will leave with practical tools and insights they can immediately apply to grow and lead high-performing teams.

Brian Yosef Villanueva: New Business Branch Manager, Sun Life Philippines

Gunalan Sagaran: Chief Agency Manager, MCIS Life

Fall in Love

A clear explanation on how to manage yourself to own your win in 2025.

6 Factors to Own Your Win:
1. Own Your Quarter
2. Own Your Week
3. Own Your Day
4. Own Your Sales
5. Own Your Marketing
6. Own Yourself

Sa-Nga Pishayangkul: Exclusive Coach, Allianz Ayudhya Assurance (Thailand)

Piyawin Pichayangkul: Assistant Vice President, Allianz Ayudhya Assurance (Thailand)

Build Big. Lead Smart. The System Behind a 6,000-Agent Insurance Team

In a world where many leaders struggle to scale beyond small teams, Victory Group has grown from a single unit to over 6,000 agents across Thailand—powered by a proven, duplicable system.

In this powerful session, Sa-nga Pishayangkul, founder of Victory Group, will unveil the Victory System Blueprint a framework that enables consistent recruiting, structured training, and sustainable leadership development. With real-life case studies, practical systems, and a culture of duplication, you’ll learn how to build a large team without burning out and lead it with vision, discipline, and impact.

Whether you’re leading 3 people or 300, this session will give you the system, mindset, and momentum to scale with purpose.

Christopher Cervantes: Agency Manager, AIA Philippines

Judean Grace Alejandro: Branch Manager, Pru Life of U.K.

Yu Sai Hung Peter: Senior District Director, AIA International Limited

Secret of Exponential Growth

In “Secret of Exponential Growth,” I’ll share simple but powerful ways to build a strong team that drives lasting success. Using my own journey, I’ll explain how to attract young talent, train top financial advisors, and create a team that keeps growing. Learn how to pick the right people, coach them well, and build a winning culture. This talk is perfect for leaders who want to grow their business the smart way!