The collaborative leadership tools we learned from Prof. Pianesi was instrumental in saving time and effort in our projects. This was a great experience!
He has a special ability to connect with a diversity of people, and touch them at their core. I have seen people transformed from their interaction with him, to become better versions of themselves.
The new thinking by design that Adriano taught us boosted the productivity of our organization by 30%, and have changed how we now do collaboration in our work.
An enthusiastic leadership educator, executive coach and change consultant, Adriano couples his expertise in organizational theory with 15 years of management experience in Fortune 500 companies.
He helps diverse groups of people come together to solve challenging problems.
He also helps leaders changing organizations by both unleashing people’s creativity and harnessing its innovation power.
He focuses on client success through self‐awareness, tolerance for ambiguity, learning agility, innovative processes, and advancing collaborative intelligence through his consulting practice. He blends innovative, results‐driven facilitation/experiential strategies with a passion for professional development and change.
As a practitioner, Adriano speaks throughout the U.S. and internationally on leading change and innovation by creating new thinking by design. In his faculty role at Johns Hopkins University, Adriano teaches graduate students and executives the kind of leadership and change achieved by looking inside and mobilizing resources within systems for shared learning and future co‐creation.
Adriano holds an MBA from the University of Milan. He studied Leadership Development at the Harvard Kennedy School with Prof. Heifetz and is a faculty member of Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School. He also teaches for the Office of Executive Education. He also teaches for the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences in the Non-Profit certificate program.
He is a TEDx speaker and the author of the e‐book Teachable Moments of Leadership, where he describes a state‐of‐the‐art experiential leadership learning methodology that gets actual results.
His repertoire features experiential learning (Action Learning, Case-in-Point, case teaching, dialogue education, peer learning, Action-reflection Learning), innovation methodologies (design thinking, emergent design, sprint, and business model design), and large-group methods (Open Space Technology, World Café, Circle, Future Search).
He has been teaching, facilitating, and designing online experiences since 2008. He is an ICF-certified executive coach.
He is fluent in Italian, English, Spanish, and French. See his TEDx talk at this link.