Change Management & Strategy Execution, Geneva
I help leaders align their teams and put strategy into practice.
I work with executive sponsors and their teams through acquisitions, restructurings and changes of direction.
Co-author of High-Impact Tools for Teams, Wiley
Worked with
Agreement on the strategy can hide disagreement about the work.
People leave the same meeting with different ideas of what they owe each other. A dependency is assumed. A resource has never been committed. The disagreement becomes visible when the work stops.
My work draws on Stanford psycholinguist Herbert Clark’s research on common ground: the understanding people share and know they share. We make it concrete by asking each team what it needs from the others, and what it can commit to.
A map makes those gaps visible. The sponsor still has to decide which commitments the organisation can support.
One sponsor, three companies
The same Chief Digital Officer brought me in three times. These engagements, and others, show the work.
Scaling collaboration as the digital organisation grew
From 36 to 190 people.
People in the digital organisation during the programme.
4 years alongside the Chief Digital & Technology Officer, including shared ways to plan projects and support new hires.
Read the caseStrategy deployment across Latin America
120managers
35 countries
A 3-year strategy and a roadmap of 100+ projects.
I helped align the managers and co-designed 15 activation workshops and 6 executive keynotes.
Read the caseWork with me
Change management & strategy execution missions
I help the sponsor and the teams agree on the work and follow it through.
AI adoption advisory for leaders
We test where AI can help managers and prepare the organisation to use it.
Programme and fractional support
Ongoing advisory inside your programme, scoped to its needs.
Training and coaching for collaboration
Help managers communicate and coordinate, from one team to work across the organisation.
Talks & exec keynotes support
Talks for internal leadership events and conferences, and support for executives preparing their own keynotes.
High-Impact Tools for Teams
Co-authored with Alex Osterwalder, co-founder of Strategyzer. Foreword by Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School.
Wiley, Strategyzer series, 2021. Published in 10+ languages. The tools are free to download.
Test what AI changes in the work.
I help leaders choose use cases, test prototypes with their teams and agree how AI will be used. In training, managers practise questioning its suggestions as well as using them.
I also co-founded HARVN Labs and designed the management approach of HARVN Pro, an AI sparring partner for managers. A simulated conversation can help you prepare. It cannot tell you what another person actually thinks.
Explore AI adoption and HARVN ProWhat clients say
“Stefano helped us successfully define and drive the organization transformation from a classic B2B set-up to a modern activation of D2C and its impact across all our business lines.”
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