The global demand for Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) never wanes because we are hardworkers. From remembering our grandparents who are tireless farmers to honoring our parents who are seasoned OFWs to admiring our colleagues who stay in the office until 10PM trying to finish a report as committed— the proof to how incredibly hardworking we Filipinos are is everywhere.

At GS&B, we want to move more Filipinos from just working hard to working smart.

Artificial intelligence, automation, robotics– they are not the future. They are now. And honestly, we can never beat them at hardwork– those machines know no burnout, vacation nor sick leave. But if we know how to use them for smarter work and faster results, then we don’t have to compete with them. Instead, we can command them to do some of our work for us, so we can come home to our families earlier and spend more quality time on whatever makes us feel more alive.

“Let’s eat!” that is the favorite jest of Filipinos. At GS&B, we sure do love eating and sharing our meals also. But we want us Filipinos to be known for something more. We want to move more Filipinos to say “Let’s get smarter and better!”, too!

When a person can’t find a job, or lost his job or is about to, we want someone from our tribe to be the one to reach out and say, “Hey, let me help you get smarter and better!” And perhaps, when he/she does, he/she could become the next most difficult to lose asset of their company. After the cycle of sharing and learning we will then check on each other, not just with “Have you eaten?” but more so with, “So, have you gotten [smarter and better]?”

From “let’s eat!” to “let’s get smarter and better!”

It is said that good teachers love to teach while great teachers love to learn. We may not be professors who have doctorate or masteral degrees from Ivy league universities, but we sure are seasoned practitioners who have proven ourselves by delivering results across different industries and at the same time humbled by lessons learned the hard way. The high way or the hard way– we just keep learning and teaching. In the end, we love to see our students soar even higher than we did..

We are lifelong learners and loving teachers.

We focus on solutions over problems, on results over solutions and ultimately, on values over results.

We are thrilled about finding solutions over pressing problems but at the same time we don’t just keep stacking “solutions” (ie techniques, apps and tools) if in the end they don’t deliver results. And when the results and revenue come, we count them as positive not when our income is higher than our costs, but when we are able to earn it without losing our positive values.