Founder and managing director for BFT, Consultants, Dr. Ontai works with business managers, corporate leadership, and higher education practitioners in providing professional development training to improve people communications skills in management and teaching. Using neuroscience as the basis for improving people communications, strategies and skills are designed around the individual's emotional and cognitive strengths and weaknesses.

He has over 20 years of teaching in post-secondary education at two urban campuses, in addition to serving as interim campus director. He served as undergrad and graduate student advisor, faculty training lead, and doctoral student advisor. He is currently an adjunct professor at California Southern University, where he serves as committee member for doctoral learners completing their dissertations.
He is a peer-reviewer for American Education Research Association, AERA, and has served as a peer-reviewer for the University of New Mexico Mentoring Institution.

Dr. Ontai is also a licensed architect with over 25 years of diversified practice and freelance consulting work. His award-winning firm is recognized for designing school facilities and affordable housing, In addition, his firm has designed office buildings, shopping centers, restaurants, private residences, and public structures.

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Facilitating the conversations are award-winning filmmakers and SDFC co-founders Benito Bautista and Emma Francisco Bautista, and Alicia de Leon Torres, Deputy Director of the Nemeth Foundation and SDFC Board Member. Sound design and edit by SDFC Technical Director, Miko Aguilar. Key art design by SDFC Communications & Social Media Manager, Tiara Liz Deriquito.

Nemeth Narratives is presented by The Nemeth Foundation in partnership with San Diego Filipino Cinema and New Americans Museum

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