II began my career in Milan, studying International Business while working in executive search for luxury houses including Louis Vuitton and Loro Piana.

After graduating, I moved to London and spent over a decade inside some of the world's most ambitious founder-led companies — including FAANG, Stripe and VC-backed scale-ups — leading people strategy, culture, talent, and organisational development through periods of intense growth and pressure.

I've been in the room for the decisions you're facing now:

• Toxic top performers who own the key accounts

• Board pressure to cut headcount while retention is fragile

• Engagement scores that tank and everyone looks at HR to "fix it"

• Org structures that break at 200 people with no clear path forward

• Performance systems that reward the wrong behaviours

• Leadership friction that's killing execution speed

I have seen excellence up close — the companies that scale with clarity and intent.

I have also seen the avoidable mistakes that quietly cost companies millions: mis-hiring at senior levels, unclear decision-making systems, reactive leadership, emotional overload masking as "urgency," poorly designed restructures, and high-stakes turnarounds that could have been prevented.

Having trained and mentored over 300 leaders, I became a founder myself, built a six-figure consulting business in under six months, and now advise venture-backed companies, VCs, and the People leaders navigating these challenges daily.

My work today blends leadership psychology, organisational clarity, and strategic judgment to help People Partners move from tactical execution to strategic influence.

Through Arc Studio's Strategic People Leadership Accelerator, I teach the skills traditional HR training doesn't cover:

• Making high-stakes calls with incomplete information

• Influencing founders and senior leaders without formal authority

• Designing performance and org systems that scale without bureaucracy

• Holding leaders accountable without absorbing their responsibility

• Navigating the gap between what the handbook says and what the business needs

You get pattern recognition from someone who's lived this job across FAANG, startups, and scale-ups.

Judgment without ego.

And the clarity that comes from being in the room when it mattered.