Lloyd Luna: Biography and Professional Speaker's Profile

Sgt. Lloyd A. Luna, Philippine Air Force Reserve, travels the world to tell people what a chair knows. He is a sought-after global Filipino motivational speaker, best-selling author, executive presence coach, social entrepreneur, composer, and media personality in the Philippines. He has written 18 inspirational books since 2004, founded an anti-poverty advocacy cooperative, and contributed as a columnist of The Manila Times since 2006. He is a television talk show host on ALIW Channel 23 and DWIZ 882AM. 

Over the past 20 years, he has spoken on leadership, communication, and human connection that leads to workplace engagement, professional success, and personal development. He has been featured as a keynote speaker of Fortune 500 companies and local business organizations in over 2,000 conventions, conferences, and seminars in four continents: North America, Europe, Oceania, and Asia. His engagements have touched various audiences from 26 countries since 2005 covering primary to quinary global industries such as technology, healthcare, banking and finance, manufacturing, agriculture, education, retail, hospitality, energy, and transportation.

The man of many “firsts” that made him one of the “Global Speakers Who Matter,” Lloyd has become the first Filipino to have been member of the board of Global Speakers Federation in 2017, the first Filipino to represent the Philippines in the Global Speakers Summit in Auckland, New Zealand and Asia Professional Speakers Convention in Singapore in 2018, the first Filipino to have spoken in French and European Speakers Convention in Paris in 2019, the first Filipino to speak in Professional Speakers Summit India in 2023, and the first Filipino to earn the Registered Speaking Professional designation in the Philippines given by the Philippine Board of Professional Speaking. He’s the founder of Philippine Association of Professional Speakers.

An Asian leader and passionate voice in the global speaking community, Lloyd has worked with speakers and audiences from 26 countries across 4 continents since he started his professional speaking career in 2005. He has engaged Certified Speaking Professionals (CSP) from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Switzerland, Malaysia, Middle East, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, United Kingdom & Ireland, and the United States.

He has also shared virtual and actual stages with global speakers, subject matter experts, business leaders, and thought leaders in countries like Belgium, South Africa, Thailand, Ukraine, Namibia, Sweden, Bangladesh, Vietnam, England, and Jersey during the Generational Leadership Summit 2019.

At age 37, he was conferred the Quezon Medal of Honor, the highest recognition given by the provincial government of Quezon to its distinguished civilian achievers. In 2022, he became the only Filipino author to have spoken at Sharjah International Book Fair in United Arab Emirates—the world’s largest book fair. Well-known speakers in this event included world-renowned personalities such as Dr. Deepak Chopra, The Daily Show host Trevor Noah, Ms. Universe competition host Steve Harvey, and The Da Vinci Code best-selling author Dan Brown, among other inspirational global literary luminaries.

In 2020, Lloyd joined the Philippine Air Force as a reserve soldier, where he teaches leadership and communication subjects to officers and personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. In 2021, he put up the Public Speaking Institute^®— a certifying body for CPS^® Certified Public Speaker and PSF^® Public Speaking Fellow. It now has a branch in Indonesia. Now a social entrepreneur, he founded in 2025 Yakap sa Mamamayan or Yaman Advocacy Cooperative, the first-ever cooperative for professionals, speakers, and subject matter experts who teach and train the underprivileged for free.

He had in previous years put up Stepback^®, a leadership and culture development program aimed at helping broaden the social perspective of leaders. As the author Stepback Leadership: How to lead and manage the Filipinos, Lloyd teaches the philosophy of putting people at the center of leadership; a program now offered in Ateneo de Manila Graduate School of Business — Center for Continuing Education.

In 2024, he returned on television and radio as host of “Work-Related” on ALIW Channel 23 and DWIZ 882AM, where he engages workplace experts and business owners in insightful, informative, and inspiring interviews.

A hobbyist, traveling golfer, Lloyd is also president of TOL Marketing Corp., the maker of Veyl™ SunglareGuard and founder of House of Advisors Inc.