Mary Donnavel Libron-Buloron, PhD (Cand.), RPm a licensed psychometrician with a master’s degree in guidance and counseling. She is now working on her PhD in social psychology.

Her career experience is a mix of academe and industry practice:

After graduating cum laude from the University of the Philippines–Cebu, Donnavel, who took up psychology, worked as a talent development officer at an HR consulting firm in the city.

There, she handled various training programs and organizational-development projects, honing her skills in training-outline creation, training implementation, and organizational assessment.

She went on to become the training officer of one of the city’s renowned non-government organizations.

As a training officer, she was responsible for setting up the organization’s training unit and overseeing the full training cycle, from planning to implementation and evaluation.

She was also responsible for creating the organization’s competency-based training, performance-management system, and succession planning.

Looking for opportunities outside the HR industry, she took a teaching job in one of Cebu’s prestigious colleges.

Donnavel has been teaching major subjects in psychology—such as psychological testing and assessment, social psychology, and experimental psychology—for the past nine years.

She has also been advising research projects and writing research articles for the college department’s journal.

While teaching, Donnavel ranked third in the 2015 psychometrician board examination nationwide. In the same year, she became the college’s guidance personnel.

Donnavel served as the psychology program head for the school year 2020–2021.

Aside from her academic career, she works as an associate consultant and facilitator at People Dynamics Inc.

In this role of Donnavel, she helps develop training modules and leadership assessment tools, among others.

She also manages several consulting and research projects for the clients of the said organization.

Avon Pearl S. Amores, MP, RPsy, CSCOP, CSIOP,  is a licensed psychologist with a Masters and PhD in Psychology. She currently works as an Assistant Clinical Psychologist at Profiles Asia Pacific, where she utilizes her expertise in developing and constructing psychological tests, conducting behavioral interviews, and creating intervention programs.

She also has knowledge of Industrial Psychology, where she is well-versed in different facets of organizational psychology and other human resources-related aspects of the organization.

Avon brings a wealth of experience from various roles, including providing psychological services at MindHealth Psychological Services Clinic, managing mental health programs for the Philippine National Police, and serving as a psychologist at the National Center for Mental Health.  She has also held training positions in the Teleperformance Recruitment Department at Collabera and Nezda Philippines, and has extensive experience teaching psychology at the university level.

Her extensive background in recruitment and her passion for teaching further demonstrate her well-roundedness in the field of psychology.

Dr. Mariel Kristine Rubia, PhD, RPsy, is a licensed psychologist with 14 years of clinical experience using different treatment modalities such as solutions-focused therapy, rational emotive behavior therapy, hypnosis and hypnotherapy, and eclectic therapy.  For organizational needs, Dr. Rubia calls on her expertise in test development and practical application of psychological principles to develop, validate, and standardize industry tests. In recent years, she has worked for an HMO provider catering mostly to BPO clients, delivering much-needed mental health services to employees. Her leadership, work ethic, reliability, and knowledge have contributed to her team’s successful programs.

For private practice, Dr. Rubia serves as a clinical psychologist at the ME Rubia Psychological Assessment Center and is a practicing Forensic Psychologist with a specialization in annulment and violence against women and children cases. Dr. Rubia completed her Master of Arts major in Industrial Psychology (cum laude) and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (magna cum laude) at the University of Santo Tomas. Her research on the “Development of a Crime-Related Shame and Guilt Scale for Prisoners in the Philippine Context” was published in the Journal of Forensic Psychology.

She regularly participates in seminar workshops and conferences on testing and scale development abroad, with her latest as an online poster presenter at the International Congress of Psychology Convention in the Czech Republic. As an educator, Dr. Rubia currently teaches at the De La Salle-College of St. Benilde’s Human Resource Management Program, sharing her extensive experience in recruitment, labor relations, and training.