About me
Founder and CEO, Filipina Women’s Network
Marily Mondejar has parlayed her success as a business leader and image consultant into founding a non-profit, non-partisan advocacy organization with members in 34 countries that seeks to increase the influence of Filipina women as leaders and policy makers in the private and public sectors. As an executive coach and management consultant, she has provided counsel to senior leadership of prestigious organizations.
As founder and CEO of Filipina Women’s Network, Mondejar has steered the organization to a leading position in the women’s community and the Filipina women community worldwide. Ms. Mondejar’s campaign to shape the Filipina image grew out of necessity to elevate the status of Filipina women when she found millions of hits on the internet defining Filipina women as “mail-order brides, sluts, exotic, sexy and submissive wives” linked to personal ads for Filipina wives when you search the word “Filipina” – in 2001 when the internet was relatively new. The campaign was a game plan to highlight the leadership roles and economic contributions of Filipina women in corporate America, small business, public service and the government.
Ms. Mondejar is noted for the Image 360®-degree assessment questionnaire, a method for measuring executive image performance and corporate reputation. She has delivered business, career and image presentations in a variety of formats reaching over 10,000 participants internationally. A select list of international and trade publications that have consulted, quoted and interviewed Mondejar include The Chicago Tribune, Dallas Morning News, AdWeek, Self, Allure, Working Woman, Black Enterprise, Academy of General Dentistry’s AGD Impact, El Norte (Mexico), Cintermex Magazine (Mexico), Momentum (magazine for Mercedes Benz owners), and various TV, radio and publications in the US, Philippines, Canada and London, UK.
Ms. Mondejar balances her professional life with advocating for other women in the business arena and serves on multiple boards engaged in public service, community, philanthropic and professional development. She has been appointed to commissions and task forces by three San Francisco Mayors (Willie Brown, Gavin Newsom and Edwin Lee).
A resident of San Francisco, she has raised two wonderful sons as a single mother and is a proud grandmother of three boys and adores her new great granddaughter.