SGV Tax Principal Atty. Alden C. Labaguis, together with Indirect Tax (IDT) Associate Directors Attys. Lauren Antonette M. Mendoza and Kierk Robin M. Ret, and IDT Senior Associates Attys. Andrea Nicole C. Loreno and Natividad G. Busa, were speakers in the 2023 SGV Nurturing Leadership Internship Program (NLIP) Leadership Talk session for students accepted for internship at SGV. Atty. Alden and his team shared their stories as well as their personal takes on what “Stewardship, Grit, and Vibrance” mean to them with the 2023 batch of interns.
Atty. Alden and team with the 2023 SGV NLIP interns
Atty. Alden opened the Leadership Talk by sharing his personal and professional stories, describing how he started in SGV leading up to his designation as Principal in 2023. Atty. Alden related and highlighted events to show how he believes he was living the principles of Stewardship, Grit, and Vibrance, hoping to inspire and embolden the interns to reach for their dreams and life goals.
Attys. Laurs, Kierk, Nicole, and Naty also recounted their respective CPA-Lawyer journeys and their stories exemplifying Stewardship, Grit, and Vibrance. Each sharing concluded with a narrative of professional experiences of working in SGV and learnings from Atty. Alden as a leader. The team thanked Atty. Alden for being their inspiration to strive and achieve their goals.
In closing, Atty. Alden quoted a story from Steve Jobs’s 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech saying, “You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards.” Atty. Alden also encouraged the interns to seize opportunities during their internship in SGV and challenged them to “follow the dots” and create their own inspiring SGV stories to answer the question: “What’s your SGV story?”
The NLIP program was organized by the SGV Internship team composed of Mariane Kristine M. Riano, Angelou Ma. D. Remo, Kayla Anne Resente, and Nicola Francesca A. Fajardo.
