Mario Gastaldi

A few thoughts as to how I like to see my work.

“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he’s always doing both.”

James A. Michener

Summary

Bilingual (Italian and English) consultant, facilitator with over 20 years of experience, with different roles, in organizations across different geographies, specialties, cultures and size.
Specializes in Employee Engagement, Motivation, Change Management, Organization design and Strategic Planning using approaches that make change happen fast.
Rather than offering predefined solutions, Mario engages with diverse, complex organizational systems, interacting closely with people and facilitating collective learning and self-renewing processes that lead key players and stakeholder to discover their path, and define actions that are consistent, coherent, synergic, based on enthusiastic support and strong motivation.

Mario is a Enterprise 2.0 Specialist, with skills and expertise certified by  AIIM as concerns Collaboration Technologies, and as regards the deployment of Collaboration Platforms within small, medium and multinational organizations.

An intense experience working closely with business leaders generated Mario’s peculiar business acumen and a meaningful sensitivity to multiple bottom lines.
Mario designs and delivers interventions that successfully impact both the business side and the human side of organizations enhancing their mutual relation and improving both in ways that are especially valuable.

Recent Experience

2001 – Present
Brain Team Consulting; Founder and Owner

Developed and applies the Introspective Leadership model while working on Leadership Development in Organizations;
Developed and applies the Connected Participation model framing an approach to Organizational Change that widens the concept of client, values diversity and creates convergence of people towards shared meanings, goals and actions.
Applies participative approaches – Appreciative Inquiry, Future Search, World Cafè, Open Space Technology, in order to design and deliver change interventions in a multiplicity of businesses, with different sizes and peculiarities.
Designed and delivered training courses on Sales, Communication, Time Management.
Designed and delivers public workshops on
Leadership Development: “Introspective Leadership” – “Leadership Circles”,
Communication: “Difficult Conversations”
“Appreciative Inquiry for Leaders”
“Appreciative Inquiry for Internal and External Consultants and Facilitators”

Workshops and Interventions have been delivered to a diverse variety of businesses and public entities.
Some recent projects involved, or are involving: Laore Sardegna Public Entity supporting the Agricultural Sector in Sardinia, JService s.n.c., software design firm developing applications for mobile devices and distributing nationally in Italy; Pineda s.n.c., a commercial business operating in the distribution of food products, Cicu S.r.l., industrial doors, windows and other construction supplies manufacturer.

2008 – Chairman 28th Organizational Development Institute WorldCongress – Cagliari Italy;
Organized the Congress, designed many of the activities.

2007: Copenhagen Business School: presented “Connected Participation” during the MCD Conference

Professional Affiliations
Organizational Development Institute – http://www.odinstitute.org/
European Appreciative Inquiry Network – http://www.networkplace.eu
The Future Search Network – http://www.futuresearch.net/