HASHI FOR THE SALAD
The morning I interview and meet Monica Valli for the first time is a Friday. Notoriously, towards the end of the week my energy levels are low – the weekend is just around the corner, ...
Deloitte promoting inclusiveness by valuing uniqueness
by Chrystelle Simon In February 2021, Deloitte promoted a high-impact public relations campaign that told the stories of people who belong to minority groups through videos and images. The result promoted a different image from ...
The ecstasy of Saint Theresa
A balustrade separates the viewer from Bernini’s Saint Theresa, created by the artist between 1647 and 1652 for the Cornaro family chapel in the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome. The effect Bernini ...
On TikTok, creativity and knowledge for the whole community
TikTok, with over 1 billion monthly active users worldwide, has become the ultimate entertainment platform for expressing yourself, to tell your story and share your passions in an inclusive, safe and positive environment. A brilliant ...
Discovering the beauty in fragility
This year we decided to renew our commitment to work alongside B.Liver – an association of young people affected by serious chronic illnesses – to create Cicatrici (Scars), a project created in 2018 with the ...
Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani, you are currently the face of the history of Italian fashion for the world. ‘Fashion should be made for the moment you live in,’ you’ve said. How has the fashion world changed in ...
9 QUESTIONS FOR DORIANA DE BENEDICTIS
EY Europe West D&I Leader What were you like when you were younger? How were you raised? I grew up in Apulia, specifically in S. Spirito, a beautiful town on the sea, in the province ...
INCLUSION AND TOGETHERNESS
A lever to navigate through uncertainty and empowering valuable people experience With the title of “The Hero’s journey” in May 2020, we introduced our first Coffee and Culture webinar in Konecranes that was dedicated to ...
INTERVIEW WITH JAVIER ZUBICOA FROM GENERALI SPAIN
What were you like when you were younger? How were you educated? How did your parents’ cultural diversity influence your growth? I was a rather shy guy when I was a kid, who really loved ...
INTERVIEW WITH AYSUN KALMIK
What were you like when you were younger? How were you educated? How did your parents’ cultural diversity influence your growth? I was a friendly, social and curious kid. Always asking questions and wanting to ...
A DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH TO UNLOCKING THE VALUE OF DIVERSITY
Cultural Infusion’s Chief Experience Officer Michael Walmsley shares the role of diversity in an inclusive and equitable workforce. Michael Walmsley Workforces, customers, communities and investors now expect diversity engagement, action and measurement.Action on diversity has ...
DEVELOPING INTERCULTURAL SKILLS IN CHILDREN WHY AND HOW
Urmila Chakraborty Hundreds of volumes have been written the world over to analyse the aims, objectives and goals of education. According to John Dewey (1859-1952, USA) the development of social efficiency is one of the ...
PAUL FRANCISCO
Let’s meet today Paul Francisco, from Boston, Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer at State Street. Q: So, what we’re trying to get at here is know a lot about you as a person, ...
INTERVIEW WITH SINA PORT
What were you like when you were young- er? How were you educated? How did your parents’ cultural diversity influence your growth? Growing up mixed German and Afro-Indigenous in a Franconian village, my identity was ...
ROGER WATERS, THE WALL THAT ORIGINATED WITH SPITTING
December 1979 lay cold over a troubled Europe. For rock music it was already time to examine its conscience and the more or less apparent revolutions. It was in this month that 2 albums arrived ...
EDUCATING OURSELVES TO BE OURSELVES
A chat with Irene Serini on ‘Abracadabra – studio 5, l’educazione del bambino e della bambina’‘Reading Mario Mieli made me realise that I was allowed to be myself. We are us, we are here, we ...
CHILD EXPLOITATION
MANDELA Rights column As I write these reflections, I think of the flurry of figures for this day: for the first time in 20years, the trend that had led to a 38% reduction in child ...
CO-STANZA
A community welfare project that puts the person at the centre of the system Co-Stanza is a co-working space with an area for babies for freelancers and public and private sector employees who choose agile ...
HUMAN AGE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION
he Human Age Institute Foundation, promoted by the ManpowerGroup, has become a major hub forTalent that connects people, companies and institutions to generate innovative solutions and encourage the meeting and growth of talent since its ...
Fondazione Provinciale della Comunità Comasca onlus
CO-HOUSING A happy sharing of spaces, hopes and needs I used to see the elderly in my parish looking sad. They were still able to fend for themselves despite their age,but something was missing for ...
NEXT GENERATION
Working with new generations on gender-based violence Gender-based violence is a complex phenomenon with cultural, social and individual roots. It is a‘global’ phenomenon found all over the world that affects all age groups. The common ...
FIND YOUR OWN WAY AT ANY AGE
Is there a right age for finding one’s way? We are convinced that it is never too early or too late tounderstand who we are and that, today, knowing how to orient oneself is a ...
In 1962, we found ourselves following the negotiations between the DC and the PCI concerning Italian schools.On December 31, an agreement was reached with Law n. 1859: the unified middle school was born, which wouldallow ...
SEXUAL EDUCATION
An opportunity for different generations to meet and exchange ideas Isn’t it too early?’ is one of the most frequent objections to the proposal to introduce sexual educationcourses in preschools and elementary school. The fear ...
THE GOLDEN AGE
(And its surroundings) NICOLA PALMARINI, Director, of the UK National Innovation Centre for Ageing Director Just a month ago, a headline in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica read: ‘Vanessa Ferrari beyond timeand history: silver medal ...
COMMON WORDS
Raise your hand if you have ever said or heard phrases such as, ‘Did you hear me, or are you deaf?,’ or‘You look as deaf as my Aunt Erminia.’ These are, unfortunately, quite common expressions.And ...
IS THERE AN AGE AT WHICH YOU STOP BEING A WOMAN?
Interview with Stéphanie Chuat, director of Ladies, a documentary about the invisible world of women over 60and their intimate relationships Ageism is the discrimination of our century, it is transversal and insidious, it affects everyone,regardless ...
THE CORO DEI PICCOLI CANTORI DI MILANO
Life experience, singing and music since 1964 The choir is not just a collection of voices. It is also a collection of stories, of experiences, of friendship and diversity. One example of this is the ...
The Mandarins XII
The birth cohorts that are currently used for useful classification insociology and statistics are the following: the Silent Generation (bornbetween 1926 and 1945), Baby Boomers (born between 1946 and1964), Generation X (born between 1965 and ...
Adele Cambria
he first time I saw Adele’s blue eyes was on the landing of her house, in Rome, in Via de’ Pettinari, several years ago.I was hot, had a backpack on my shoulder and a bunch ...
THE POWER OF ALLYSHIP – A bridge between generations
By Chrystelle Simon As already expressed in previous articles, inclusion and opportunity are two strongly linked concepts. Valuing differences with the aim of developing talents is part of the very concept of inclusion. Inclusion is ...
DIVERSITY THAT GENERATES VALUE – A project for valuing ageing in organisations
By the editorial staff The entire world today is facing a phase of epoch al change, in which diversity and inclusion acquire new meanings. Inclusion means, in a workplace context, not leaving anyone behind, but ...
GENERATION T – TikTok: when a platform overcomes generational differences
By the editorial staff Inspire creativity and bring joy. That is the mission of Tik Tok, an entertainment platform founded in 2017 that landed in Europe in August 2018. Now available in over 150 countries ...
INTERVIEW WITH FRANÇOIS PINTE
By the editorial staff What is your role at Synergie and what were your expectations when you start ed? I am currently the General Secretary of Synergie Group, since 2003. At that time, when I ...
WHEN WOMEN LEAD, CHANGE HAPPENS
For some time now, State Street, a US fnancial ser vices and banking company, has been on a path of diversity inclusion marked by concrete and struc tured actions. The most recent leg of the ...
GENDER AND GENERATIONS – The secret to a future-proof company
By Nadia Bertaggia Almost a year and a half into the pandemic, thanks to the vaccination campaign we are able to glimpse the beginnings based on work, understood in the most inclusive and extensive sense ...
GENDER EQUALITY – Snam’s commitment strengthens the role of women from school to work
By editorial staff From school to the beginnings of working lives and beyond. Snam’s commitment to expanding and strengthening the role of women is based on a solid awareness that looks to the past, present ...
AGEING AND WORK – Focusing on disability
By editorial staff Many attributes, such as judgement and strategic thinking, develop or manifest for the frst time as we grow older. Work experience and skills also grow with age. However, some functional capacities, mainly ...
AT SANOFI WE TRAIN EMOTIONAL AGILITY
By the editorial staff One of Sanof Italia’s most recent training projects focuses on emotional intelligence and agility: ‘In the last year and a half, the theme of recogni tion, management and enhancement of feelingsin ...
iTALent – The Pfizer Italy project
By the editorial staff No one knows where a talent might be hiding until ‘talent meets opportunity’, as Seneca would put it. And Pfizer knows this well. The multinational biop harmaceutical company has for years ...
CONNECTING FIVE GENERATIONS – N-Gen and La Scuola as an example of intergenerationality at work
By the editorial staff For over 90 years we have been monitoring consum er behaviour and developing in-depth studies and market forecasts. We have stuck to a solid founda tion based on accurate analysis, a ...
A PACT BETWEEN GENERATIONS THAT HAVE CHOSEN EACH OTHER
By editorial staff People who join Mutti are already predisposed to wards Mutti’s values and ‘way of doing things.’ At the basis of relationships between people there is humility, the richness of those who know ...
BASEMENT CAFÉ BY LAVAZZA – The fourth season came out on 30 September
By editorial staff Italy’s most popular blue lounge is preparing new episodes, with guests including SofaViscardi and Antonio Dikele Distefano. From the original YouTube channel to varioussocial networks – Instagram and Facebook, passing through Twitch ...
GENERATION Z – Discovering the world of health
By editorial staff The outbreak of the pandemic has not only put our health system under unprecedented pressure, as well as the economies of entire countries, but has also caused very obvious rips in the ...
INTERGENERATIONAL LEARNING -Generali mentoring programs
By Francesco Colombo It’s very likely that we now have more generational diver sity in our workforce than ever before, with 4 generations (Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z) working in our or ganisation concurrently, ...
LISTENING – The value that every age brings with it
By editorial staff Four generations live together at Findomestic, each of which has its background, reference values, ideas, expectations and aspirations… in short, a different view of the world and a unique way of assessing ...
MENTORING
By editorial staff I shall therefore send to you the actual books; and in order that you may not waste time insearching here and there for proftable topics, I shall mark certain passages, so that ...
MEETING BETWEEN GENERATIONS
By editorial staff ‘Diversity is a Fact, Inclusion is an Act.’ Zabeen Hirji, Global Adviser, Deloitte Canada Diversity in the workplace is a fact. Adopting inclusive behaviours that value every one’s uniqueness is a conscious ...
JOY – Juniors and seniors at work for the Chiesi of the future
By the editorial staff What is JOY? It is, without a doubt, a unique opportunity for discussion and collaboration to gener ate innovative ideas that will enable Chiesi – to achieve its future goals. But ...
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE GENERATIONAL FACTOR – For training and research for innovation
By the editorial staff One critical issue in the broad feld of diversity and inclusion (D&I) is the generational factor. This is the first time in history that up to 5 gen erations can be ...
OUR SHADOW BOARD – A young community looking to the future
By the editorial staff An international team of 8 colleagues underthe age of 30 with one objective: to add the perspectives of younger generations to the strategic choices the company makes According to recent studies ...
PATHWAYS TO PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY – Giving shape to dreams
Martina Gerosa In the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the article dedicated to employment is interesting because it highlights that persons with disabilities should not only find employment thanks to ...
THE FIELD OF DIFFERENT COMPETENCES
Silvia Camisasca There is no lack of recent examples of women and men playing and competing together in the sphere of amateur and promotional activities. This is different, however, when it comes to high-level competitions. ...
With the Mind’s Eye – Is it still possible today to preserve the ability of the imagination?
Nicole Riva It’s been over a year since we stopped travelling, but I have to be honest, it’s been a lot longer as far as I’m concerned. I’ve never been a world traveller; I’ve visited ...
A DIFFERENT SAILING TEAM – Competing has to do with competences
Alessio Bernabò The sailboat slowly enters the slipway: there’s no way around it, even looking at it from below, it looks enormous for a 12-metre sailboat. First the keel disappears in the water, then the ...
The skills of people with disabilities
Giampiero Griffo There is a widespread perception in society that people with functional limitations have fewer skills and competences than those who do not appear to have such limitations. Some American Malthusian economists have even ...
ROOTS IN THE PAST LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
By the Editorial staff We recently met with Federico Luddi, who has been HR Director at Mutti for about two years. Mutti is a leading company in Europe in the tomato sauce market and is ...
HAPPYNESS AND/IS SUSTAINABILITY – The transformation that increases wellbeing
Elga Corricelli and Elisabetta Dallavalle Within ELEhub, our monitoring unit, we have developed awareness and knowledge around the topic of The Wellbeing of People and their Happiness, thanks to the skills developed through our CHO ...
Interview with Elena Travaini
By the Editorial staff Elena Travaini was born in Sondrio in 1986. She immediately had to face the challenge of dealing with a rare retinal tumour that forced her to spend the first three years ...
INCLUSION AND DIGITALISATION – Interview with Susanna Zucchelli
By the Editorial staff In the corporate world, respect for diversity and inclusion cannot and must not be a separate issue, but a strategic factor in defining activities and, above all, in governing and dealing ...
INCLUSION WEEK #SNAM4DIVERSITY – Diversity and inclusion policies at Snam
By the Editorial staff Snam’s Diversity & Inclusion policy is promoted by the Snam ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) Advisory Committee and is evidence of the company’s deep commitment to an inclusive company culture that ...
EMPOWERMENT AT JANSSEN LEADERSHIP LAB
By the Editorial staff Over the past year, the pandemic has impacted every aspect of our lives, in both the private and work spheres, and companies have also faced multiple challenges. The current situation has revealed ...
ATYPICAL: “BALANCE OVER MADNESS”
By the Editorial staff I like to associate the term neurodiversity with the image of a large, magical cylinder in which we find atypical ways of thinking, learning and processing information; starting from any point, ...
Champions’ Camp
By the Editorial staff In collaboration with the ASD GSS Reggio Emilia and Champions’ Camp, we have been organising multi-sports summer camps for deaf children and teenagers for seven years now, so they can have ...
SERUM POSITIVITY – Turn prejudice into a force
Gruppo WIP, Fondazione Penta Children learn to walk. They fall. Their parents reassure them, and they get up and try again. As children grow, they may have to relearn how to walk, but as an ...
Sign language made easier – The European strategy to improve media accessibility
Giacomo Inches CONTENT4ALL is an Innovation Project co-funded by the European Commission within their multiannual research and innovation framework programme, Horizon 2020, which took place between September 2017 and November 2020 with grant nr.762021. The ...
V/VUCA – Skills in the age of vulnerability
Valeria Cantoni 8:30 something urgent, 8:40 another urgent thing, 9:00 call, 9:30 new priority, 9:35 read 20 mails that have arrived since 7 p.m. the day before … etc… until 7pm.” We’re not running the ...
NECESSARY SKILLS – For guiding change
By the Editorial staff In the current context, understanding how to attract, motivate and retain the right employees – by managing their diversity in an efficient and fair way and creating an inclusive environment in ...
PFIZER
By the Editorial staff PFIZER is one of the world’s largest biotechnology companies and has always been involved in the research, development, production and marketing of medical products. With over 78,000 employees, research centres in ...
Disability Employee Resource Groups – An effective tool for strengthening companies’ inclusion efforts
By the Editorial staff Committed people are any organisation’s most valued asset. Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), voluntary associations of dedicated employees, organised around shared interests, are an important case in point. They are a driving ...
DISABILITY MANAGER – Which skills or competences?
Haydèe Longo The term ‘competence’ etymologically indicates a duty, a responsibility. What are the responsibilities of those who are charged with dealing with disability? It is regrettable that this is still vague, perhaps due to a ...
ANDREA DEVICENZI
By the Editorial staff August 1990. Thanks to work, sports and my social life, I was the happiest person in the world, convinced that nothing could derail my life. Instead, it only took an instant ...
A STORY A LIFE
Irbin Vicco My name is Irbin (Augusto) Vicco, I’m 27 years old and from the province of Varese. I was born with a malformation in my right leg and, at the age of 3, it was ...
Jobmetoo enters the Seltis Hub galaxy
By the Editorial staff Seltis Hub, a subsidiary of Openjobmetis – the first and only employment agency listed on the Italian stock exchange – has recently expanded its range of services with the addition of ...
#COURAGE IS AN ADVENTURE
By the Editorial staff #ilcoraggioèunavventura! This is the claim launched by Synergie Italia and the rest of the international Synergie group’s branches this year to enable all employees to draw on their “courage” to demonstrate ...
THE CANVAS | Art Column – GINO DE DOMINICIS
Margherita Animelli Exhibited for the first time in the Galleria Modern Art Agency in Naples in 1972, Madonna che ride (Laughing Madonna) by Gino De Dominicis, was a classical statue of the Madonna in the ...
FONDAZIONE ADECCO – 20 years of diversity and inclusion
By the Editorial staff Recounting 20 years’ worth of the Fondazione Adecco’s history in just a few lines is a challenging task. Even more so when interviewing the dynamic and enthusiastic Francesco Reale who, for ...
ALOPECIA: A real paradox – Surprising others by changing
Tania Paradiso Imagine finding yourself naked in the middle of a square full of people. You don’t know how you got there and, above all, you don’t know why you aren’t wearing any clothes. There ...
KIND INNOVABILITY – A conversation with Ernesto Ciorra, Director of Innovability at Enel and Guido Stratta, Director of People & Organisation at Enel
By the Editorial staff Words are important: Ernesto Ciorra, how and why did the term (and function) of innovability come about? It is a cross between innovation and sustainability, invented in April 2014 by CEO ...
In search of one’s own identity – The importance of training and skills
By the Editorial staff In sociological and anthropological terms, identity is defined as “an individual’s conception of themselves within the individual and in society, the set of characteristics that make the individual unique and unmistakable”. ...
THE GAME OF LIVING | Sports Column – Why can’t Black people swim?
Terence Parris Some of you are probably screaming, “You can’t say that!” Well, before anyone “dives off the deep end” (pun very deliberately intended), this article ambitiously attempts to address the title in three ways: ...
130 YEARS OF CHANGE TO BE PROUD OF – Interview with Carlo Monge
By the Editorial staff This year Philips, a leading company in the field of health and health technology, celebrates 130 years in business. A long time, during which the company has distinguished itself with its ...
INTERVIEW WITH HEIDI ROBERTSON – Group Head of Diversity and Inclusion
By the Editorial staff ABB is a leading global technology company that energizes the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future. By connecting software to its electrification, robotics, automation and ...
Reboot. – Implementing State Street’s 10 Actions
By the Editorial staff Four years ago, Fearless Girl – standing her ground in the heart of Wall Street – sent a powerful message: strong women make a difference. She was put there by State ...
Skills for the future – Implementing inclusive hiring practices at SAP
By the Editorial staff Vera Solomatina, SAP’s new HR Director for Italy and Greece, is a lawyer by training who went on to study psychology, followed by an MBA in Management. Until December 2020, she ...
Cover Story – IACOPO MELIO
Valentina Dolciotti, Florence, May 2021 I would like to ask you, first of all, to tell us about your educational and professional background (what you studied, useful experiences, current position). I have a degree in ...
Zero, Netflix – INTERVIEW WITH ANTONIO DIKELE DISTEFANO, GIUSEPPE DAVE SEKE
By the Editorial staff Zero is loosely based on Antonio Dikele Distefano’s Non ho mai avuto la mia età. Both the publishing success in Italy of a writer of Angolan origins and the production of ...
A NEW PARADIGM – Work teams that are open to diversity to help cope with change and crises
Nadia Bertaggia Every job has its relevant skills. This is an awareness that has been with us since the beginning of our training, right from our school days. But among the skills we learn, which ...
LEONARDO CARDO
By the Editorial staff Il mio mondo dal basso verso l’alto (My world from the bottom up) is the title of Leonardo Cardo’s blog (https://ilmiomondalbassoversolalto.com/), one of the many online spaces where Leonardo actively supports ...
KNOW ME FOR WHAT I CAN DO – Not for what I can’t
By the Editorial staff People usually complain that it’s expensive to employ people with disabilities. There are two reasons for this: financial reasons and management reasons. When you come from this perspective you are blocked ...
RICE AND SILK – SKILLS
Alessia Mosca For over a year now, we have been losing our social skills and transferring human contact to computer and smartphone screens. Despite this, digital skills for (re)entering the world of work are still ...
(REALLY) INCLUSIVE BRANDS? – A question of authenticity
Manuela Linari How do we relate to others? What skills do we need to feel “accepted” and integrated in different contexts? In the successful short story My brother chases dinosaurs, which became a film, Giacomo ...
ALESSANDRA DI COSMO
By the Editorial staff In December 2020 you launched an extraordinary training plan for all your employees. Why this choice? What does “skill transformation” mean for Vodafone? Over the past year, Vodafone Italia has accelerated ...
INTERVIEW WITH LAURA BRUNO ON AGILE WORKING
By the Editorial staff A leading company in the health and prevention sector, in Italy Sanofi employs over two thousand people in four business units and four production sites. The innovative trade union agreement recently ...
INTERVIEW WITH CHRYSTELLE SIMON – Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Leader, Deloitte Central Mediterranean
By the Editorial staff Chrystelle, where were you born? In France, in Brittany. How did the cultural diversity of your family or the environment you grew up in influence you? My professional and personal life ...
BRANDS AS SOCIAL ACTORS
By the Editorial staff People want a better world. People want a world that represents their values. Those same people demand that companies and brands take a stand on many social, environmental, cultural and sometimes ...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DIVERSITY
By the Editorial staff Through the language of images, Gradient – the first type of artificial intelligence to deal with D&I issues and led by CEO Giorgia Coltella – was launched in Genoa at the ...
FASTWEB DIGITAL ACADEMY – AND THE SKILLS OF THE FUTURE
By the Editorial staff The Fastweb Digital Academy is a Sustainability project created by Fastweb and Fondazione Cariplo. The Academy, created at the end of 2016, as part of Cariplo Factory, aims to contribute to ...
DEVELOPMENT: BRINGING OUT THE BEST IN PEOPLE
By the Editorial staff In 2019, in Houston, Texas, Dow held its second conference dedicated to Inclusion, Diversity, and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). The event was an opportunity to reconfirm, in front of 500 employees ...
True Ability and Women in Action
By the Editorial staff At Dell Technologies, contributing positively to human progress is one of our most important goals, and we are strongly committed to supporting innovative, sustainable initiatives that promote diversity and inclusion. The ...
THE ACCELERATION OF SKILLS
By the Editorial staff In a world that is increasingly complex and constantly undergoing a process of transformation, the real challenge for all companies is that of attracting talent and valuing its resources. The skills ...
DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT – Giacomo Mazzariello interviews Giorgio Cavalleri
By the Editorial staff Giorgio, in what way, at Chiesi, have we tied the topic of skills to company values? For a company like ours, technical skills play a central role, but leadership models have ...
TECHNOLOGY FOR THE FUTURE – A future that is more and more inclusive
By the Editorial staff Last year our world changed. We woke up one morning …. And suddenly all of our daily routines had been turned upside down: no work, no school, no day-care, no walks, ...
PROMOTING DIVERSITY – In the workplace
By the Editorial staff It is now well known that for companies, diversity and inclusion are ‘business levers’ that create competitive advantages. Workplaces where diversity is reflected in management practices are more innovative and profitable, ...
RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU THINK YOU’RE “NORMAL” – New languages and meanings to go with cultural and organisational change
By the Editorial staff “We very much wanted to be an inclusive company and with great commitment and enthusiasm we are promoting a sustainable work environment, where every person is proud to contribute while feeling ...
A PAGE WITH A VIEW | Cinema Column – “The King’s Speech”
Paola Suardi Directed by Tom Hooper With Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter and Guy Pearce Drama, 2018, 105’’ In a nutshell, this film tells the story of how King George VI of England ...
BOVARY | Books Column – TARA WESTOVER, AN EDUCATION
Silvia Rota Sperti Tara Westover was born into a fundamentalist Mormon family in the mountains of Idaho in 1986, never went to school, and grew up without access to any kind of health care, without ...
DIVERSOUND | Music Column – ROBERT WYATT, THE STAR IN THE SEA OF SOUND
Davide Sapienza You’ll be different in the spring I know, you’re a seasonal beast Like the starfish that drift in with the tide With the tide (“Sea Song”, 1974) On 1 June 1973, Robert Wyatt ...
CASSIOPEIA | Philosophy Column – Today’s word: REPARATIONS
Valeria Cantoni Mamiani In his speech at the beginning of the year, President Mattarella stated, “2021 must be the year in which each of us is also called upon to make a commitment to reciprocate ...
OPHELIA | Theatre Column – OUR BEAUTIFUL BODIES
Lucio Guarinoni “A disabled gay guy with red hair who has only one hand,” is how Filip Pawlak introduces himself when we start to talk. A Polish performer and the head of production office of ...
PURE STYLE | Fashion Column – LIKE IN A MOVIE
“We are so honored that film challenge films were created from all over the world including: India, Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK, Ireland and Canada. I am so blown away by the work that ...
MANDELA | Human Rights Column – Monica Cerutti
Silvia Camisasca As the current health and socio-economic crises become more acute, we run the risk that equal opportunities and enforceable rights will become crucial and even more divisive factors. As inequalities corresponding to differences ...
The Mandarins XI
Valentina Dolciotti Fran Lebowitz, in the docuseries that Martin Scorsese dedicated to her (which, incidentally, is funny) states at one point: The great thing about talent it’s that it’s the one thing — it’s the ...
Fundación para la Diversidad – Implementing the Diversity Charter
By the Editorial staff As a result of the European Commission’s commitment to promoting diversity management and inclusion in the workplace, the Diversity Charter was created in 2008 to promote equality and non-discrimination in Europe. ...
MARA ZAVAGNO
By the Editorial staff Why speak about different abilities? For me, it is very personal. I like the word skills because I think it is another matter of different backgrounds, varieties, opportunities, emotional richness. What ...
INCLUSIVE OPEN CULTURE THROUGH LEARNING – Upskilling and reskilling its employees to be up to the future challenges
Lorenzo Giordano and Alberta Zamolo The world is changing at a fast, often unpredictable pace. The insurance industry is no exception. Insurance is a long-running business, yet it is now facing a deep transformation. From ...
DONNE 4.0 – Technology as a lever for female empowerment
Federica Maria Rita Livelli We are still far from achieving gender equality and are confronted with this reality daily. The pandemic only underlined this issue, which remains unresolved. Furthermore, the historical background within which we ...
I AM PAIN – The story of fighting against an illness: a rebirth
By the Editorial staff “As a consultant on Equality & Inclusion issues, I recently had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know Lisa Zanardo, a woman who, due to various difficulties she’s experienced, found ...
JENNIFER BROWN
By the Editorial staff Hi Jennifer, thank you for taking the time to talk with us today and catch up with you. We’re looking forward to getting a little snapshot of your view of the ...
VALUING THE SOUTH OF ITALY
By the Editorial Staff The Ortygia Business School Foundation is a platform that aims to foster innovation and development in the southern and Mediterranean area of Europe by supporting businesses and valuing human capital. The ...
THE FUTURE OF D&I TRAINING
Agnes Uhereczky and Barbara De Micheli Diversity and Inclusion is experiencing a wave of popularity in almost all European Member States – a few years behind the United States, where interest is still quite high ...
INDIVIDUAL SKILLS LEAD TO ORGANISATIONAL SUCCESS
Nadine O Vogel Many factors contribute to business success. One of the most important is attracting and retaining talent. All Chief Executives would agree that whether hired directly out of school or from another employer, ...
SOCIETÀ CANOTTIERI ESPERIA TORINO
Francesca Grilli My name is Francesca Grilli and I’m a Disability Manager at the Società Canottieri Esperia – Torino, a rowing club in Turin. The club is well-known in the field of rowing and other ...
EXPLORE THE WORLD – Without limits
Arturo Gaona I believe that a trip can change your life. Being able to connect with other cultures and see how people and landscapes change from place to place allows you to have a different ...
CANINE COMPANIONS
Wallis Brozman There are 4.8 million people in the United States who have a disability, according to the 2010 census. These individuals – just as unique, important and capable as those without disability – come ...
The Mandarins X
Valentina Dolciotti Is it really necessary to dedicate an issue of this magazine to the LGBT+ community? Do we not risk ghettoising, underlining differences, further discriminating? On 3 March, members of the European Commission voted ...
PAGE WITH A VIEW | Cinema Column – Girl
Paola Suradi When the film was presented in Cannes in 2018, the applause at the end of the press screening was long and warm. A standing ovation greeted the director and performers, who were in ...
COUNTERSPACES | Childhood Column – If pink is for girls (or for gay people)
Elena Luciano Educational services and preschools are places dedicated to the care, education and training of boys and girls from birth to six years, that is, crucial years for the development of potential and the ...
PURE STYLE | Fashion Column – DRAWING THE PEOPLE
Angela Bianchi “Blue is for boys” a father said to his daughter as they chose a t-shirt; the same father who bought the Frozen DVD shortly after, whose main character we never see dressed in ...
OPHELIA | Theatre Column – Incorporating
Lucio Guarinoni I meet Monica Gillette and Gary Joplin in a Zoom call on a Thursday afternoon; I’m in my kitchen, they’re in their own homes. I want to talk to them about the work they ...
Miguel Castro – SAP Global Diversity & Inclusion Office
By the editorial staff Throughout the history of SAP’s commitment to diversity, its dedication to LGBT+ inclusion has won it many accolades and praise, and deservedly so, garnering recognition from bodies and organisations including Stonewall ...
BULLETIN FOR SAILORS – Doing vs. Being
Rose Cartolari We are currently living through a very unusual period as regards health, politics and society: all over the world groups of people who are more vulnerable than others – children, women, people with ...
UNLIMITED VIEWS – THE STRENGTH of ERGS
Claudio Guffanti The goal of many company inclusion projects is every individual’s free and complete expression. Achieving this is very challenging. However, in my opinion, there is a very effective tool that is used successfully ...
WONDER – Rachel and Sarah: a change that makes history
Paolo Beretta Joe Biden’s swearing in as the 46th President of the United States is a historic moment that also represents a momentous step forward in the field of inclusion. Certainly because of the poetry ...
RICE AND SILK – Far East
Alessia Mosca Today the Far East is increasingly a bellwether for the recovery and future of the world and will be an important power in the twenty-first century. No longer relegated to being just a ...
BEYOND THE MIRROR – AT HOME, IN THE EVENINGS
Igor Šuran “It doesn’t matter to me whether they’re a man or a woman, black or white, normal or gay or lesbian or whatever they want, I just care about them working and producing.” The sacrosanct ...
VODAFONE FOR THE LGBT+ COMMUNITY – Vodafone is among the first companies in Italy to have adopted an “Inclusion commitment” to recognise diversity
By the Editorial staff More than half of all LGBT+ youth (58%) do not declare their sexual orientation or gender identity in the workplace for fear of discrimination from managers or colleagues. Among these, one ...
#4WEEKS 4INCLUSION – The cultural revolution that passes through companies
Federica De Felici Once upon a time there was an Inclusion Week, one week a year dedicated to inclusion and enhancing diversity, organised for TIM by its employees, or rather, by its citizens. This was ...
The world is beautiful because it is varied
Antonia Del Vecchio The world is beautiful because it is varied. In this banal, simple statement lies what is most true when we approach the issue of the importance of including and valuing uniqueness! Yet, ...
Interview with Monika Jankowska-Rangelov – EMEA Head Inclusion & Diversity, Vice President at State Street
By the Editorial staff Tough beginnings – the more you experience, the wiser you become I was born in Krakow, southern Poland, into a family that for many years had to cope with juggling work ...
To build inclusion – Sky’s initiatives starting point for a comparison
By the Editorial staff Every company is now confronted more than ever with diversity and inclusion issues: this creates an opportunity to contribute to the growth, not only economic, of society and to be protagonists ...
Woman Empowerment at Sanofi – Female leadership, against the gender gap
By the Editorial staff Thanks to Sanofi’s respect for the diversity of its employees, it has long chosen to prioritise the creation of an inclusive workplace, where everyone feels comfortable showing up as their true ...
HAIR HAS NO GENDER – A new project, strengthened by Pantene, on a path that Procter & Gamble has proudly walked for decades
By the Editorial staff Hair is more than just an aesthetic element. It expresses an identity, makes us strong and confident. Particularly when we face a transformation that will forever change our lives, as is ...
Interview with Livio Zingarelli and Astrid Balsink
By the Editorial staff In this “three-way conversation” today, the Editor in chief meets Livio Zingarelli, Head of HR Philips Italy, Israel and Greece, and Astrid Balsink, Philips Global Lead lnclusion & Diversity. We’ve known ...
Strength in diversity – The commitment of the Microsoft Italy GLEAM team to valuing differences and promoting a more inclusive society
By the Editorial staff We live in a world in which progress pervades every area of our lives and where people can achieve extraordinary results in any sector through the winning combination of technology and ...
Mara Zavagno – Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer and Vice President Talent, Engagement and Rewards at Konecranes
By the Editorial staff Hi Mara, you are the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for Konecranes, a Finnish headquartered company. Can you speak about your job in D&I? My journey started in February 2019, when ...
Open&Out – New perspectives to ignite innovation
Fabio Palermo The pandemic has generated upheavals the extent of which is not entirely clear yet. We have some idea of what is happening outside the walls of our homes, if we have not been ...
Out of the bubble
Marco Mazza I felt privileged, and felt that I was wasting this good fortune. It was one of the reasons I came out to the company many years ago. I was a privileged employee of ...
Actions speak louder than words – Hogan Lovells focusses on activism and inclusive language through policy driven directly by top management
By the Editorial staff The international law firm Hogan Lovells is a place where people work together, and through this collaboration create a single, multi-faceted identity. We believe that safeguarding the freedom to be oneself, ...
Casa Arcobaleno – And the dream that one day it will no longer be needed
Vittoria Tenaglia, Giovanni Raulli The first time I was in Casa Arcobaleno (Rainbow House), it was raining in Milan as it hadn’t in months. It was another time, another world – a pandemic was approaching ...
LGBTQI+ inclusion counts …and Generali counts on our LGBTQI+ community
D. Bosio, D. Bisaro, E. Berardi On 20 October 2020 over 200 people around the world connected virtually to celebrate the first meeting of the Generali Global LGBTQI+ and Ally Network: We Proud. We Proud’s ...
Free to be there
By the Editorial staff When I reflect on the fears we faced when we decided to introduce the issue of sexual orientation at Findomestic, I can only be satisfied with the progress we have achieved ...
Unlock Inclusion – Inclusion as a key for moving beyond connection
By the Editorial staff Creating open and authentically inclusive environments is one of the challenges that characterise these times. The complex reality that we have been experiencing for about a year has profoundly changed the ...
20 years and counting! – A story of passion and commitment @Dow
Elena di Cunzolo It all started with an unsigned letter from a Dow Michigan employee to our then-CEO. The letter ended as follows: “I hope that one day I will be brave enough to sign ...
ALLIES TO INCLUDE – The strength of the network
Chrystelle Simon How can greater inclusion of LGBT+ people be promoted? This is a question that anyone who deals with inclusion and equity constantly asks themselves, to make their organisation increasingly respectful of all diversities, ...
LGBTQ+ on board!
Stéphane Codeluppi The percentage of openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals in the workplace is growing, but despite the remarkable progress that has been made to date, there’s still a long way to go. ...
CONVERGING DIVERSITIES – Reverse Mentoring: parallel lines that find their meeting point at a mutual distance
By the Editorial staff “This is huge. Our firm is being a ground-breaker again.” It is with these words, charged with both pride and expectations, that Alessandro Sciarra, a young associate at the international Clifford ...
All differences matter – The Pride@Work winning team
By the Editorial staff A diverse workforce has always been a competitive advantage for Baker Hughes, a global energy technology company which operates in more than 120 countries and employs 57,000 people worldwide, 5,000 of ...
Diversity: the real key – To business success, according to Bain & Company
By the Editorial staff Tell us a little about who you are. Fabio Colacchio: I am a partner at Bain in the Retail and Consumer Product practice, specialising in fashion and luxury goods. Before joining ...
THE VOICE, LISTENING, DIALOGUE – Plurality is the key to the cultural richness of a community. Valuing the many souls at Angelini Pharma
L. Di Giandomenico, B. N. De Gol One of the main communication trends of 2021 is the voice, with even greater growth than has been recorded in recent years. Witness the explosion of podcasts as ...
Let’s go be together
Laura Nurra Our goal is to ensure that this is a place where all colleagues are engaged, have a voice and can thrive. Because here at AMEX, being yourself matters. This sentence sums up the ...
Innovation comes from diversity – At Amazon, each individual’s uniqueness
Mariangela Marseglia Actively promoting inclusion and diversity is what characterises companies that consciously live in the present. Personally, I believe in a simple equation: the more open and inclusive workplaces are, the more comfortable people ...
Diversity and Inclusion: Agos’ commitment – How can we implement diversity and inclusion in the workplace? How can we promote the culture of equality?
By the Editorial staff The hope at Agos, which has always been committed to promoting a sustainable work environment, is that every person who is part of this environment is proud of it, feels welcomed, ...
The Game of Living | Sports Column – Where are all the gay football players?
Terence Parris Thomas Hitzlsperger is still the most high-profile current or former professional male footballer to come out. When he made the announcement in January 2014, I believed this would open the “closet” – or ...
DIVERSOUND | Music Column – Because you’re born that way: Lady Gaga’s LGBT Anthem
Davide Sapienza As she concluded the world tour that had made her a global star, on November 26, 2010, during her concert in Gdansk in Poland, Lady Gaga (born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, in New ...
MANDELA | Human Rights Column – The Georgian Case. The fear of being free
Silvia Camisasca There is a great need to restore centrality to the “rights” question. There is a great need to become passionate about that patient, daily battle for the affirmation of principles that have only ...
THE CANVAS | Art Column – LUIGI ONTANI
Giacinto Di Pietrantonio A body of art Luigi Ontani literally lives in his tableau vivant. Since the end of the 1960s, he has been revealing himself in the guises of some of the most famous ...
EAST MEETS WEST
By the Editorial staff There are many European organisations, which work with and for the LGBTIQ community. They range from large international institutions to very small local NGOs. But the Eastern part of the European ...
GA(Y)ME CHANGER – How the LGBT+ community and their allies are changing the global economy
By the Editorial staff The LGBT+ community has experienced a stunning development in a short period of time: yesterday marginalized, stigmatized, and criminalized, now champions of creativity, innovation and growth in a highly competitive world. ...
Allyson Zimmermann – Executive Director, EMEA, Catalyst
By the Editorial staff What is Catalyst? Catalyst is one of the first global non-profit organisations to focus on helping to build workplaces that work for women. Founded in 1962 by feminist, writer and advocate ...
Ten questions for Ivan Scalfarotto
Valentina Dolciotti Ivan Scalfarotto, born in 1965, has a warm laugh and a pleasant manner. My nervousness at having the opportunity to interview someone so knowledgeable on this topic and so well known, gradually diminish ...
Inclusion and economic development – Overcoming the inclusion divide as an engine for recovery
Marco Guido Palladino, Damiano Terziotti It is not only the people directly involved, but more generally the communities to which they belong (civil society, the corporate world, the third sector) that reap the benefits of ...
Conversation with Riccardo Basso – Diversity Manager, Banca d’Italia and Ivass
By the Editorial staff When and why was the role of Diversity Manager created at Banca d’Italia? In 2014, the Banca d’Italia identified the enhancement of diversity as one of its strategic objectives. The enhancement ...
Cover Story – FABRICE HOUDART
Valentina Dolciotti, New York, 24 February 2021 Fabrice, bringing your knowledge, commitment and the path you have travelled to Italy is a great privilege and we hope to be able to help more people get ...
MUTTI Corporate Narrative Book – Today we meet Michele Laterza, Corporate Communications & PR manager
By the Editorial staff With regard to language, the subject of corporate communication is very important. What do we mean when we talk about ‘corporate communications’? What is meant is a fundamental strategic lever for ...
Findomestic – The power of words
By the Editorial staff When I think of language, the image of Igor Šuran, Executive Director of Parks, immediately resurfaces in my mind, as he stood on the stage of the Alfieri theatre, a small ...
ARCHITETTE the feminine plural – Language as a tool for gender empowerment
Mariacristina Brembilla Last November, Kamala Harris – in the White House, Maria Luisa Pellizzari – in the Italian Police, and Antonella Polimeni – at La Sapienza University, were highlighted by the media as the first ...
THE CANVAS | Art Column – Visual Poetry and Concrete Poetry
Paola Ugolini Writing is the painting of the voice Voltaire Visual poetry is an artistic phenomenon that developed over the course of the 1950s in the blazing climate of the European neo-avant-garde movement, mainly as ...
It is impossible not to communicate – The importance of communication in the inclusion of disabilities
Antonia Del Vecchio Human communication has always fascinated me, and when I decided to become a relational psychotherapist, the relevance was immediate. Before addressing the topic of ‘inclusive language’, it is necessary to look at ...
BULLETIN FOR SAILORS – Are You Managing Your Emotional Wake? Three Ways Leaders Can Positively Impact Those Around Them
Rose Cartolari When boats pass you by on a lake, they leave a wake — a trail of frothing waves that, even if you didn’t actually see the boat pass by, tell you that one ...
Ten questions to Giorgio Siracusa
By the Editorial staff What were you like when you were younger? How were you educated? The first question Italians ask of each other when they meet for the first time is, “Where are you ...
Is Diversity Diverse?
Chiara Bersano Diversity appears to be a beautifully simple concept: we are all people, and we should all have the same opportunities. Diversity is quite a different proposition. There are visible and invisible traits that deserve ...
Ferrari – A Company with People at its center
By the Editorial staff Behind every Company’s success story are the men and women who work there every day. In Ferrari, the pursuit of excellence in its products goes hand in glove with the pursuit ...
LADIES
“An overwhelming and real film” rtsun From the directors of “Petite Soeur”, in competition at the Berlinale 2020 and selected to represent Switzerland at the 2021 Oscars, an ironic and profound documentary on women over ...
Cover Story – CHIARA BISCONTI
This changes everything. Chiara Bisconti Valentina Dolciotti I met Chiara Bisconti in 2015 at a conference organized by the municipality of Bergamo titled “Smart Working Smart Companies” and I liked her immediately, that’s how I ...
Arcus Pride 2020 – Supporting the values of Inclusion and Diversity
By the Editorial staff In 2020, Pride Month, celebrated in the month of June every year, was celebrated differently, given that, because of the healthcare emergency, all of the main events had to be cancelled ...
DISABILITY IN THE TIME OF COVID
Elena Belloni One fact is clear to all: this emergency situation has increased social isolation, especially for those who are disabled or have a disabled relative, and it has inevitably highlighted rifts and distances in ...
WHEN SCHOOL AND LITERATURE HAVE TO DEAL WITH TECHNOLOGY
Nicole Riva If for a moment we forget about the great classics of the past and try to grasp a closer feel of the literary production of the second half of the twentieth century, it ...
MATILDA EFFECT – We give back to women their own merits
Paola Mascaro The Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover, scheduled to be landing on Mars in 2022, will bear the name of a great English scientist, sadly known for being the victim of one of the most ...
State Street – READY FOR CHANGE
By the Editorial staff Even before the pandemic caused by Covid-19, work-life balance was a topic that was important to State Street and to management. Our policies, applied globally, allow employees to manage and coordinate ...
Cover Story – TELMO PIEVANI
Valentina Dolciotti, 10 February 2020 Telmo Pievani, born in 1970, is an Italian philosopher, professor and evolutionist. To find out this information, you can look up on Wikipedia. Since I have known him for some ...
Cover Story – ALESSIA MOSCA
Valentina Dolciotti, Milan, December 9, 2019 It is in the Italy-ASEAN office on Corso Buenos Aires that I met Alessia Mosca, born in 1975. With a degree in Philosophy and PhD in political science, she was ...
Cover Story – CLAUDIA PARZANI
Valentina Dolciotti Suddenly, a flurry of fresh air bangs the door open pouring its flow into the room and turning some of the papers upside down. For a brief moment I feel shivers running through ...
Cover Story – IGOR ŠURAN
Valentina Dolciotti, Milan, January 30, 2018 His elegance resemble the moves of a nineteenth century man, observing everything from below his thick dark eyebrows, and speaking like he is spelling each word with a British, ...