My Bio

Jhoanna Gan So

Edupreneur  |  Property Investor-Broker  |  Mom


AN EDUPRENEUR

  • As the Co-founder and President of Business Maker Academy, Inc., Jhoanna Gan So has developed and produced training programs, seminars, conferences and webinars for more than 50,000 people and companies in the Philippines.
  • Jhoanna established HR Club Philippines, a group that seeks to professionalize HR practices in the Philippines by providing training and useful tools for Business and HR practitioners.
  • She also co-founded Teach-it-forward Inc., a non-stock, non-profit organization that partners with NGOs to provide Professional and Community Development Training for marginalized Filipinos.
  • Having received her Bachelor Degrees in Communication Arts and Business Management from De La Salle University years ago, she started her career and spent most of her productive work years dabbling in entrepreneurship, marketing communications, newspaper column-writing, graphics design, arts & crafts, publishing, directing educational videos and training…making her into a fulfilled but luckily not-too-tired edupreneur.

A PROPERTY INVESTOR-BROKER

  • With a keen interest in Real Estate, Jhoanna Gan So scanned real estate classified ads, viewed properties for sale as a hobby from childhood to adulthood.
  • She sold her first property in College at the age of 20 and dabbled in Real Estate publishing soon after before getting into education.
  • Now ready to pursue a lifelong passion, Jhoanna has recently started her practice as a Real Estate Broker with PRC-REB license #0029553. She maintains the investaplace blog to chronicle her journey into real estate investing and share lessons learned from the school of hard knocks.
  • Together with her husband Mark, she invests in and manages rental properties. She specializes in leasing, property management, and project selling.
  • Her company, Business Maker Academy, Inc., is an Accredited Training Provider of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) which offers CPD seminars in Real Estate.

A MOM

  • Knowing early on that time is more important than gold, Jhoanna Gan So chose the road less traveled by starting her own company instead of working as a corporate executive. After spending years building and systematizing her training company, she has achieved her dream of having a comfortable life with total control over her time.
  • As a result, she gets to spend most of her time with her cheesy husband and 2 awesome kids. She is the tutor-mom, art project teacher, guidance counselor, event planner, travel coordinator, clean-police and family financial planner—-For her kiddos, she is simply mom.