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From Southern Italy to Silicon Valley: My Journey of Leadership, Transformation and Innovation.

I was born in Southern Italy, a place rich in beauty, tradition, and resilience, but also one where opportunity often followed a narrow path. Early on, I understood that if I wanted a different life, I couldn’t wait for it to appear. I would have to design it.

So I treated my life as a prototype. I explored, experimented, made deliberate bets, learned from failure, and iterated forward. That mindset, design as a way of navigating uncertainty, has shaped every chapter of my journey.

Over time, that curiosity took me across countries, cultures, and industries, and eventually to Silicon Valley. For the past 15+ years, I’ve worked at the intersection of product, technology, AI, and leadership, helping organizations rethink how humans and systems work together. I’ve led and contributed to products and platforms across healthcare, education, retail, and enterprise software, work that has reached millions of people globally and supported over $1B in business impact.

But somewhere along the way, a pattern became clear.

The hardest problems leaders face aren’t technical. They’re systemic.

I met founders, executives, and operators who were intelligent, capable, and successful, yet overwhelmed by fragmented responsibilities, constant noise, and accelerating complexity. Work and life were tightly coupled, but managed separately. Decisions were high-stakes, but made under cognitive overload. AI was entering the picture, but without clarity or governance.

That realization led to the evolution of my work, and to the creation of Lift Leaders.

Lift Leaders is not a traditional coaching practice. It is a Leadership Operating System approach.

Through Lift Leaders, I work with a small number of leaders to design an integrated operating system across work, life, assets, and AI, essentially acting as a strategic partner that helps absorb complexity so leaders can regain clarity, judgment, and focus under pressure.

Coaching remains an important tool in this work, but it is no longer the product. The product is simplicity through system design.

My approach blends human-centered leadership principles with practical system architecture: how decisions are made, how information flows, how environments (digital and physical) are structured, and how AI can responsibly extend human capacity rather than fragment it further. Every engagement is deeply personal, grounded in trust, discretion, and long-term thinking.

Over the years, I’ve supported students, professionals, and leaders at pivotal moments of transition, career shifts, scale inflection points, personal complexity, or organizational change. Many have gone on to thrive in roles at companies like Google, Meta, and Microsoft. More importantly, they’ve built lives and leadership styles that are intentional, sustainable, and aligned with who they are.

Looking back, I’m grateful for the path, from a small town in Southern Italy to leading human-AI experiences in Silicon Valley. But what continues to motivate me most is helping others navigate complexity with intention, whether through leadership system design, leadership coaching, or building human-centered AI experiences that genuinely empower people.

If you’re facing a moment where clarity matters, personally, professionally, or organizationally, I’d be glad to explore whether we should work together.

Not to optimize harder. But to design something that finally works.

Where I’ve Worked