Offers R&D, custom, and off-the-shelf peak experiences
for professionals to reach peak levels of wholeness – for themselves,
their families, their teams and organizations, for community and country.

Offers R&D, custom, and off-the-shelf peak experiences for professionals to reach peak levels of wholeness – for themselves, their families, their teams and organizations, for community and country.

THE PYRAMID OF WHOLENESS

Unleashing Genius, Purpose and Service in pursuit of Peak Greatness

Growth practiced daily – driven by people unleashed to pursue their greatest potential, who continuously discover and apply the full force of their gifts and compassions in ways that advance the company’s mission.

WHOLENESS is a state beyond wellness. It entails possessing a healthy balance of body, mind, heart, and spirit; while encompassing a person’s active process of discovering and applying the full force of both their gifts and pains, to relentlessly better the circle of humanity entrusted to them, and allowing them to align and advance their shared mission with their teams and organizations and with society at large.

WHY WE IGNITE

The Ignite Peak Experience makes people whole​

WHOLENESS is a state beyond wellness. It entails possessing a healthy balance of body, mind, heart, and spirit; while encompassing a person's active process of discovering and applying the full force of both their gifts and pains, to relentlessly better the circle of humanity entrusted to them, and allowing them to align and advance their shared mission with others.

WHAT WE IGNITE​

This is the essence of an Ignite Peak Experience​​

The peak of every human experience arises from personal truths drawn from these experiences. These deep truths do not remain in the experience. They come alive in everything else that we do, unleashing each of us to navigate around life's challenges, to keep finding our ways forward — be it towards peak performance, peak leadership and transformation, or peak wellness.

HOW WE IGNITE​

Each Ignite Peak Experience is powered by GPS​

Why do our peak experiences have such powerful lifelong impact? Because we ignite an internal navigation system that we call THE IGNITE GPS - the mix of Genius, Purpose, and Service, that gives force and meaning to our lives. It is this deeply personal compass that allows us to continuously journey toward our life's greatest potential — for ourselves, for our teams and organizations, and for society.

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Delta Triangle Means Transformational Change

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LIVE YOUR DEEPEST TRUTH

SO AS TO FULFILL YOUR HIGHEST POTENTIAL

LIVE YOUR 
DEEPEST

TRUTH SO AS
TO FULFILL YOUR

HIGHEST POTENTIAL

OUR SIGNATURE PEAK EXPERIENCES

IGNITE PARAISO

Centre for Corporate experiences focused on Wholeness, Leadership, Growth, Innovation, Strategic Planning, Corporate Citizenship, Team-Building, Learning & Future Proofing, etc.

HALLMARKS

  • 1-Day to 5-Day Immersive Experiences

  • Guided Discernments in Solitude & Companionship

  • Commitments to Practices & Behaviors

  • Media-rich expansion of experience for continuous growth, learning and application

  • Situated within the socio-economic context and narrative of Paraiso Eco-Farm Village

  • Integrates wholeness practices in mind, body, heart and spirit.

Ignite Manila

4 1/2 minutes of pure Ignite. Meet the characters, feel the energy, experience the magic of participative performance art, witness the iconic movement, see how it fits into your own life, career and context.

Are you one of us?

Team Wholeness

Team Building is a thing of the past, our peak experience on Team Wholeness takes this Human Resources Management’s intervention to a whole new level, focusing on three breakthroughs in peak performance amidst modern day challenges: Self-Awareness / Self-Mastery, Collaboration and Higher Purpose.

THE PEAK COLLECTION

Select from various doorways to our non-stop R&D and curation of the world’s most powerful experiences. Then sit back and allow us to deliver these peak experiences straight to the people who matter most to you.

VIP REWARDS

For your most valued clients, top performers, partners, influencers and executives. Treat them to the ultimate pampering.

  • Transformational Staycation: Raising Self and Social Awareness

  • Retreat, Reboot, and Reinvent your Life

  • Meaning and Purpose: Find it and Live it!

  • A Week of Gratitude and Mindful Living

VIP REWARDS

For your most valued clients, top performers, partners, influencers and executives. Treat your most important people to the ultimate pampering.

  • Transformational Staycation: Raising Self and Social Awareness

  • Retreat, Reboot, and Reinvent your Life

  • Meaning and Purpose: Find it and Live it!

  • A Week of Gratitude and Mindful Living

STRATEGIC PLANNING AND LEADERSHIP

The pace of change and scope of disruption are so relentless. Prepare your most important executives for their most important roles: leadership and transformation.

  • Right-Brain Strategic Planning

  • Transcendent Bosses and Corporate Citizenship

  • Architecting an Adaptive Organization

  • Creating and Implementing Organizational Behaviours and Best Practices that are Relevant

STRATEGIC PLANNING AND LEADERSHIP

The pace of change and scope of disruption are so relentless. Prepare your most important executives for their most important roles: leadership and transformation.

  • Right-Brain Strategic Planning that’s Strategic

  • Transcendent Bosses and Corporate Citizenship

  • Architecting an Adaptive Organization

  • Creating and Implementing Organizational Behaviours and Best Practices that are Relevant

TEAM COLLABORATION

Propel change by bringing your teams to the next level of growth and innovation through culture building and collaboration like no other.

  • Falling in Love with your Customers

  • Sustained Collaboration that Leads to Innovation and Impact

  • Building Teams Beyond Teambuilding Activities

  • Innoganda (Innovation Propaganda) via Teambuilding and Collaboration

TEAM COLLABORATION

Propel change by bringing your teams to the next level of growth and innovation through culture building and collaboration like no other.

  • Right-Brain Strategic Planning that’s Strategic

  • Transcendent Bosses and Corporate Citizenship

  • Architecting an Adaptive Organization

  • Creating and Implementing Organizational Behaviours and Best Practices that are Relevant

GROWTH, CHANGE & INNOVATION

Take your organization’s operating system to a whole new level of progress and transformation in a fast-changing world.

  • The Growth Circle: Knowing when to Push or Pull

  • The Heart of Innovation: Compassion Essentials

  • Building an Army of Change Agents

  • Breaking Down Innovation Barriers: Inno BEANS (Behaviour Enablers, Artifacts and Nudges) and Blockers

GROWTH, CHANGE & INNOVATION

Take your organization’s operating system to a whole new level of progress and transformation in a fast-changing world.

  • The Growth Circle: Knowing when to Push or Pull

  • The Heart of Innovation: Compassion Essentials

  • Building an Army of Change Agents

  • Breaking Down Innovation Barriers: Inno BEANS (Behaviour Enablers, Artifacts and Nudges) and Blockers

DNA WHOLENESS

An immersion which brings wholeness of mind, body, and spirit like few have experienced before, for your most valued relationships inside and outside your organization.

  • Mindfulness: Habits that Foster a Growth Mindset

  • GPS: Discovering and Using your Inner Compass

  • Quantified Self: Metrics for Wholeness

  • Achieving (Work) Life Balance in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) World

DNA WHOLENESS

An immersion which brings wholeness of mind, body, and spirit like few have experienced before, for your most valued relationships within and outside your organization.

  • Mindfulness: Habits that Foster a Growth Mindset

  • GPS: Discovering and Using your Inner Compass

  • Quantified Self: Metrics for Wholeness

  • Achieving (Work) Life Balance in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) World

Programme Du Jour​

IGNITE CAMINO

This transformational experience aims to achieve peak wholeness, peak performance, peak leadership, peak transformation while positively impacting relationships.. Interspersed with the 120 km walk are daily doses of wholeness pills such as morning rituals, breathworks and holistic workouts, mindful eating, moments of solitudes, rekindling marital ties, meaningful conversations with kindred spirits.

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An immersion which brings wholeness of mind, body, and spirit like few have experienced before, for your most valued relationships within and outside your organization.

    BUILD YOUR OWN PEAK EXPERIENCE

    Select all your variables of interest. We'll take care of the rest.

    WHO (Is it for)C-LevelManagementFrontlinersStaff levelVIP ClientsVIP InfluencersVIP PartnersTeams

    How many participants?Up to 30Up to 60Up to 100More than 100

    YOU WANT TO FOCUS ONPeak Wholeness - Personal Body, Mind and SpiritPeak PerformancePeak StrategyPeak LeadershipPeak CollaborationPeak TransformationPeak Experiences

    WILL IT BE FORHalf DayFull DayOvernightWeekendMulti-DayWeekMulti-Week

    WILL IT BEClient SiteMetroSuburbProvinceAsiaGlobal

    HOW OFTEN One-OffAnnualQuarterlyMonthlyWeekly

    A RESTART SOLUTION
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    Uniquely at the nexus of corporate, innovation, venture capital, and igniting all we touch to their greatest growth and impact.

    You’ve never met anyone like us.

    As part of our response to COVID-19, we have reconfigured all our solutions to respect social distancing and maximize digital delivery.

    Old School Letter
    from our CEO

    Layer 1

    We didn't skip a beat. Started 2024 the way we ended 2023: full throttle on our investment mandate to find and fund 30 of the country’s most ignited founders.

    Q4 2023 saw us pull the trigger on 5 iconic investments and we’re on track to exceed that in 1H 2024 (more on this later, including our 3 key investment criteria and how we’ve expanded our venture capital focus to include steady ships, besides the usual rocket ships).

    In January we broke all records with our biggest Ignite ever. Partnering with Ateneo’s DOST-backed Blue Nest Technology Business Incubator and the Ateneo Intellectual Property Office, we gathered some of Manila’s most badass founders, investors, and CEOs, along with our most promising young professionals and student leaders. For 5+ hours on a chill January afternoon, we ignited on the common ground of Peak Performance and Peak Living in 2024.

    More Than VC

    Our January highlight was the launch of 5VC FITNESS, a hybrid app, online and face-to-face platform for individuals, teams, and organizations to methodically and measurably grow their 5 Cycles of Virtuous Capital in 3-month sprints.

    See how 5VC can power you and your teams to unrivaled growth and performance;

    See how you can partner with Ignite to bring 5VC to schools, corporations, SMEs and LGUs all over the country. This is one of our major KPIs in 2024-- to build partnerships (think franchising!) that bring 5VC FITNESS to every corner of Filipino society.

    Fund 30 of PH’s Most Ignited

    January was also our public unveiling of IGNITE VC 2024: our quest to find and fund 30 of the country’s most Ignited founders, targeting to be the first money in and invest PHP5-10MM per founder in the next 18-24 months.

    Here are the 3 most important finds we’re looking to invest in:

    1) Founders who are obsessed with solving important problems at scale (where revenue and customers grow much faster and bigger than costs).

    2) Founders who are obsessed with customer impact (where everything they do is built around continuously solving customer pains).

    3) Founders who are obsessed with being great at execution and culture (because this is how they’re going to keep great people happy and full).

    If you’re our kind of founder, we will invest in either of 2 scenarios:

    1) Your venture was birthed as a rocket ship (to achieve massive scale within 3-5 years).

    2) You’re currently a steady ship that can be transformed into a rocket ship. A steady ship is a solid business that is currently profitable (or can be within the next 6-12 months) and has a great product that delights customers in ways that are important to them.

    Rocket ship or steady ship, we invest when we see that our Ignite capital, including our 5VC (5 Cycles of Virtuous Capital) can drive 10-100X++ growth in your venture.

    Want to explore an investment from Ignite? Pls message us here and tell us what you have in mind. We’ll pick it up from there.

    That’s all for now. Let’s keep igniting.

    Andre A. Yap
    February 2024

    Joana Alberto is a CoFounder and Managing Partner of Ignite House of Innovations and Ni2, the National Innovators Initiative to power 100,000 Filipino innovators by 2023. She’s also the Managing Director of the Guild by Ni2, a dedicated team that focuses on career and OJT acceleration of college students and fresh grads at scale. The space that she holds is all about nurturing individuals to drive peak performance by discovering Ignite GPS (Genius, Purpose, Service) our personal navigation system that leads us to fulfill our highest potential, under Ignite Centre for Peak Experiences.

    Before joining Ignite, Joana served the aviation industry for almost three decades while thriving in the field of entrepreneurship — from designing and manufacturing her own line of arts and crafts to selling dry goods, managing a flower shop and being an events designer, and never leaving out her social responsibility via community service. She was never content with just being employed.

    “I’ve had many twists and turns in a career that has brought me to hundreds of cities all over the world, first as a flight attendant and cabin manager, then in HQ. After 27 years in aviation, I clipped my wings, and packed the manuscript that I worked on for 4 years entitled, #Metamorphosis: The Ultimate Makeover Manual for 40-Year Olds and Beyond, along with my certifications on wellness coaching and various healing modalities. In a matter of months, I went from wearing two hats in the airline, managing inflight performance while designing and delivering leadership programs to 120 nationalities, to leaving all that and holing up in India for a month – to learn yoga, find myself, reinvent my future.”

    I was 47 then, a wife and mother who had spent the best years of my life flying in and out of my family’s life. I had been an expat for so long. I was finally coming home to Manila with a new career in corporate wellness. I thought that was it, my final chapter, time to get settled before entering my golden era.

     

    But no.

     

    A wise friend once asked me… Joana, you’ve been in a perfect storm! You’re an extreme empath and you’ve met, served and managed so many more people from so many more countries in 27 years than most people do in 3 lifetimes: those dreams and pains and wants of so many people must have a way of sticking on you, haunting you, no?

     

    Yes, exactly; they’ve haunted me.

    Before I jumped into corporate, I designed a program for Filipina overseas workers – for people and pain I know so well. I designed a 6-month journey that would help them create their Dream Life Masterplan. I included all the right things I did and didn’t do, all the research and study, trial and error, consulting friends and experts, and sleepless nights in search for my truth. So OFWs long separated from their families can speed up their coming home — prepared. Well, my Dream Life Masterplan never reached a single soul. My intention was pure and noble. But I was alone for a huge mission.

    Fast forward to 2017. A friend invited me to an Ignite gathering and I was never the same again. I found my space, found my missing pieces, found my partners and team. And I found the Ignite GPS: Genius, Purpose, Service. It was my finally embracing my own GPS that really put me on a new journey and challenge: to take care of people beyond wellness, so they can be whole – so they can live their deepest truth and so fulfill their highest potential and greatest promise. That’s what I found in the Ignite GPS.

    Today, Joana is leading a team of Gen Z’s to launch a human + app coached program to help colleges students find clarity in their life-career direction. She also just launched the pilot project of her startup  —which partners with farm owners to create viable and sustainable ventures that support agri-eco tourism, farm based co-creation opportunities, tech guided wellness experiences and socio-economic development initiatives. At the rate she’s going, nothing can stop her from founding more winning innovations in the next coming years. A genuine Iska — a graduate of the University of the Philippines, her mission no doubt is to make an impact on the lives of her kabayans, dreaming to make her country a better place.

    Andre Yap is the founder and CEO of Ignite House of Innovation, which invests and operates in venture capital, technology, media, education, healthcare, energy, hospitality, food, agri, HR and enterprise solutions. 

    Andre also serves as Executive Chairman of Ni2, The Philippines’ National Innovators Initiative to power 100,000 Filipino Innovators across key sectors of society. Ni2 is a public-private partnership with national and local governments, business and non-profit organizations, and the academe.

    As a serial founder and startup investor, Andre built Ignite House to be an innovator for innovators – to R&D, build, operate and continuously invest in proprietary systems, platforms, programs and technologies in order to nurture, scale and sustain innovation capabilities, open collaborations and disruptive opportunities uniting key sectors of society (business, education, socio-civic, government, startups, investors), with the vision of establishing the Filipino as a uniquely disruptive force in global innovation.

    Ignite’s mission is deeply personal to Andre: to build and invest in transcendent ventures by building up and investing in transcendent founders and teams, advancing his core belief that innovation is the business (i.e., building sustainable operating models) of solving society’s wicked problems. In 2018 Andre authored the Ignite Manifesto and has relentlessly pushed its growth as an Operating System that has helped thousands of individuals and teams channel deeply personal GPS (Genius, Purpose, Service) into shared Mission and Collaboration, into Innovation and Impact.

    Andre was born and raised in Manila and educated by the Jesuits and the Opus Dei, before moving onto the US, where he earned 3 degrees (Yale, Fordham, NYU) and lived for 15 years. In 2009, based on his pioneering work with CUBED (“Cube Ed”), the Center for University-Based Enterprise & Development, which Andre founded as an innovation accelerator and ecosystem in the state of Connecticut, the US Government granted Andre the status of Permanent Resident on the Basis of Exceptional Ability in the National Interest of the United States of America

    Nevertheless, Andre’s heart remains fully in the Philippines, where he wants to do his best work and most meaningful impact. He has called Manila home again since 2011, when he moved back with his wife and their 2 dazzling boys. 

     

    “I’ve pursued my career as a series of ventures and adventures… it’s a path that doesn’t look or feel like any other, that rarely ever really feels like work… precisely by challenging established norms, relentlessly going out of my box and into many other boxes, appreciating how seemingly disparate realities tie together, threading constellations where others barely even see the dots.”

     

    From choosing Yale for its public-private management focus and then following it up with a second Masters in Interactive Marketing at NYU; to deciding against the post-MBA rush into investment banking or management consulting so that I can start the YGroupe and really understand the leverage in my New York, New Haven, Manila connections; to starting CUBED despite my perfectly zero knowledge of tech, incubators or the academe; to choosing to come home to Manila despite CUBED’s success and the US government’s offer of Permanent Residence; to the long and winding road of ventures, investments and partnerships that have now led to the National Innovators Initiative and cross-sector collaborations, not just across industries, but tying together national and local governments and hundreds of schools and MSMEs. I’ve really enjoyed the thrill of going into frontier space that I know nothing about, that no one knows anything about, and making sense and structure out of all that chaos and ambiguity – building value, outcomes, impact where nothing but deep need existed.

     

    “Innovation: that’s what many people call it. For me, I see myself as an artist no less than Da Vinci or Picasso – business is my canvas and if I’m honest and brave there is no other way to paint but my way. Above all, I see innovation as my humbling participation in God’s ongoing work of creation – to help make things new and better all the time and to share that fire and capacity for renewal with everyone I meet. As we say, to ignite all we touch to live their deepest truth and so fulfill their highest potential and greatest promise— for joy, meaning, success, and impact; a life fully-lived.”

    Your people don’t have to suffer.
    Gift them the future they deserve.