Mums Returning To Work is LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® workshop designed to help women reconnect with their needs and plan a new transition back into work after giving birth. In this program I offered:

• research of clients needs and development of the workshop concept

• marketing of the program

• 4x2 hours of in person training

• design and facilitation of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® activities

• private coaching sessions

Since 2022, I have had the privilege to offer communication courses for the students at the School of Innovation:

Lecturer for the course Pitch Yourself:

• Design content of the course on Career Strategy for young graduates

• Research relevant content and prepare lessons material

• Lead online interactive training sessions including activities and homework

• Track students participation

• Review students assignments

• Coordinate with School of Innovation's staff

Assistant to Professor for the course Science Communication:

• Assist Professor during the course

• Co-host lectures on effective comm. for science innovation

• Support students during feedback sessions

• Review students assignments

The newly born restaurant Italian Good Mood invited me to host a workshop on goals setting for their expanding team. I designed a facilitation in the form of OKR planning. For Italian Good Mood I offered:

• requirements definition through multiple client briefs

• design of workshop content and activities

• facilitation of activities and insights gathering

• reporting of the insights and documentation of the OKR workshop

Haute École d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud (HEIG‑VD) invited me to host an ideation session in LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® for its students. The scope of this workshop was to showcase the role of play in team settings to get creative juices going as well as increase collaboration. In this role I offered:

• design of the content for a group of 12 students

• 6 hrs facilitation of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® activities

• reporting of the learnings

Talenti Perfetti is the online training program designed to help small organisations understand what makes teams stick together and perform like champions in a fast changing world. For this program I offered:

• research of clients needs and development of the concept

• marketing of the program

• 6 hours of group online training

• design and facilitation of activities

• private coaching sessions

• team support

The Rebel Company was my very own Employer Branding agency which supported SMEs and Scaleups with their Talent Acquisition strategies, offering support with the design of outstanding Job Descriptions. As Founder and Director of my business, my work included a wide range of duties and responsibilities such as:

Client’s Success

• Conducting confident briefs to identify needs and establish trust with the client

• Offering tailor made support through consulting and training services on job descriptions design, channels mapping, interview guidelines, compensation strategy

• Designing and executing content for workshops and 1:1 sessions

• Leading sessions and engage clients with Design Thinking activities

• Following up to client’s calls with sessions reports

• Ensuring customer's feedback through Trustpilot or other platforms

• Fuelling the marketing strategy focused on nurturing clients and generating referrals

• Keeping up with Employer Branding and Talent Acquisition trends through consistent, high quality trainings

Team Lead and Project Management

• Recruited, onboarded, coached and off-boarded 8 team members

• Managed external vendors and agencies

• Developed expertise of Agile tools

• Coordinated from remote with team members and partners

• Planned, documented and tracked work with OKRs

Sales and Marketing Funnel

• Planned and executed a go-to-market strategy

• Designed and tested multiple sales funnels

• Initiated business opportunities through on/offline outreach activities

• Coordinated digital marketing efforts including social media, blog, events, newsletter

Service Design

• Designed proof of concept of training and consulting services

• Established positive partnerships for service testing

• Collected and evaluated tests results

• Successfully launched consulting services that responded to clients needs

Business Prototyping

• Identified market needs through desk and qualitative research

• Designed, validated and developed over the course of 3 years my Employer Branding agency, The Rebel Company

• Raised early stage funds and managed bootstrapping budget

• Coordinated market validation analysis across startups and SMEs in Italy

For about 7 years, I collaborated as mentor and trainer at the Startup Lab, the incubation program of the School of Innovation of the University of Trento. Here’s is a timeline of the different roles I covered during the program:

• 2023: Startup Judge at Demo Day

• 2022: Startup mentor for Hyposaver, the med-tech startup preventing diabetics crises - winner at Demo Day

• 2021: Course trainer on team performance for +100 students

• 2020: Startup Mentor for Calcdex, the ed-tech startup helping kids with dyscalculia - winner at Demo Day

• 2019: Keynote speaker at the Demo Day

• 2017: Guest speaker on market research for innovation

In the role of Research Project Coordinator at Amazon Alexa, I overviewed operations during the whole research project in Italy. This role included coordination with head office based in the US, management of logistics with external vendor for project execution, team lead.

Responsibilities and achievements included:

• delivering program objectives within established timeline

• monitoring internal metrics with regular use of processes trackers

• coordination with team members in loco and abroad

• use of wiki pages for communication and reporting

• supporting program manager while based in a different country and time-zone

• effective communication with senior managers

• building strong and collaborative team environment

• conflict management

• timely logistics coordination with stakeholders in loco and abroad

• responsive re-prioritization under emergency scenarios

• organisation of research logistics including risk assessment with PM

Black Swan Data was one of the first companies to offer trends forecasting combining social media listening and standard market research analysis. In this role, I collaborated on research projects for F&B clients such as Unilever and PepsiCo. My responsibilities and achievements in this position included:

• coordination with line manager on program objectives

• delivering fresh and compelling primary research on industry landscape with reports and presentations

• management of online communities for qualitative study in French

• language query building and data cleansing for quantitative data analysis

• building collaborative working relations with external teams across the company

London City Incubator offered me the first opportunity to work as Market Analyst for the Startup Spin-offs of City University London. The goal of this position looked at identifying market opportunities for inventions in Eyecare and Gaming Industry ideated at City University London. My responsibilities and achievements for this project included:

• familiarising with Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Law

• designing research methodology for product testing

• overviewing research operations team lead and coordination

• effective communication with program manager

• stakeholders and clients engagement clients pitches