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Executive Summary

Victor Filamor is CEO of Wisdom Tomorrow and Partner, Greater China at Stanton Chase, where he also serves as APAC Regional Sector Leader and Regional Leader for Inclusive Leadership & Culture. Based in Hong Kong, Victor works with CEOs, CHROs, founders, business owners, and senior leadership teams across Asia Pacific on leadership transitions, succession, executive appointments, organisational culture, executive assessment, leadership development, and organisational transformation. 

What distinguishes Victor is the combination of extensive operating leadership experience and nearly two decades in executive search, executive coaching, and leadership advisory. Having led businesses before advising leaders, he brings a practical, business-first perspective that connects leadership, talent, culture, and organisational capability with business performance. His clients value his ability to help organisations navigate periods of growth, transformation, succession, restructuring, and change while remaining focused on long-term organisational effectiveness. 

Experience

Victor's career has been defined by leadership, growth, and transformation. Over nearly two decades in executive search and leadership advisory, he has partnered with organisations throughout Greater China, Southeast Asia, Korea, and Japan to identify, assess, and develop senior executives and C-suite leaders. His work spans executive search, executive assessment, executive coaching, succession planning, leadership advisory, and organisational culture.

Before entering executive search and leadership advisory, Victor spent over 20 years in executive leadership, general management, sales, marketing, and regional management roles across Asia Pacific. He held senior positions with organisations including The Coca-Cola Company, Polaroid, Diversey and San Miguel Corporation. During this period, he carried full P&L responsibility, built businesses across multiple markets, led turnaround initiatives, established new organisations, and guided companies through growth, restructuring, acquisitions, and organisational change. 

His leadership experience across Hong Kong, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and other Asian markets gives him a unique perspective on how culture, market context, and leadership influence organisational outcomes. These experiences continue to inform his advisory work today. 

How Tools & Models Are Used for Client Needs

Victor believes that sustainable organisational performance is ultimately shaped by leadership quality, organisational culture, and the ability of people to execute strategy effectively. While many client engagements begin with executive search or succession planning, they often evolve into broader discussions around leadership effectiveness, organisational alignment, talent strategy, executive development, and transformation.

As a certified executive coach and accredited practitioner in multiple leadership and assessment methodologies, Victor applies tools and frameworks to help clients understand leadership capability, team dynamics, organisational culture, and future leadership potential. His certifications include the Boyden Leadership Framework, Hogan Assessments, SHL Personality & Ability Assessments, PROPHET (Predictive Role Profiling for High-Performing Executive Teams), and accreditation as an Organisational Culture Practitioner at the Culture Factor Group.

This combination of operating experience, leadership advisory expertise, coaching, and culture assessment enables Victor to support organisations not only in selecting the right leaders, but also in creating the organisational conditions that allow those leaders to succeed. 

Experience Prior to Becoming an Associated Practitioner of The Culture Factor group

Victor built an extensive career leading businesses across Asia Pacific. He held senior commercial and general management roles with multinational corporations and regional organisations, often in situations requiring transformation, turnaround, growth acceleration, or market expansion. 

In executive search and leadership advisory, Victor held leadership roles with SpenglerFox, DHR, Boyden, and Stanton Chase, progressively expanding his work from executive search into broader leadership assessment, executive coaching, succession planning, organisational effectiveness, and culture advisory. 

These experiences laid the foundation for his current work helping leaders and organisations build the capabilities required to thrive in periods of rapid change and transformation. 

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Publication

https://www.stantonchase.com/insights/blog/governance-leadership-and-culture-in-the-ai-era-insights-from-the-c-suite