Professional Experience:
Over the past decade, my work has revolved around making international learning and collaboration actually function, in contexts where there are many stakeholders, limited time, and very little tolerance for confusion. I work at the intersection of learning design, event coordination, and operational delivery, often acting as the person who connects content, people, and logistics so that things move forward instead of stalling.
In recent years, this has taken the form of international consultancy work, supporting hybrid academies, online courses, and international meetings linked to development, employment, and sustainability. These are multi-week or multi-format initiatives, often involving different regions and languages, where my role is less about visibility and more about keeping the whole system running: aligning partners, formats, timelines, technical setups, and participant experience.
This way of working was consolidated during my time at the International Training Centre of the ILO (ITCILO) in Turin, Italy, first as a Junior Programme Officer for Green Jobs and Entrepreneurship (2021–2023), and later as an Associate Project Officer for the CATALYST Initiative (2024–2025). ITCILO is the training arm of the International Labour Organization, working globally with governments, social partners, and institutions. Across these roles, I coordinated international conferences, learning programmes, and multi-day training activities, both online and face to face, often managing several overlapping activities at once. The work required constant adjustment: dealing with last-minute changes, different institutional cultures, time zones, and technical constraints, while still keeping learning outcomes and engagement at the centre.
Between these institutional roles, I worked with the Boulder Institute of Microfinance and CRESOL, a large Brazilian cooperative banking system, designing and coordinating training programmes for cooperative managers. This meant moving between strategy and detail: interviewing senior managers, applying design thinking approaches, coordinating workshops and field visits, and managing logistics across Brazil and internationally, including activities in Italy, Portugal, and Peru. It was a role where credibility, organisation, and practical judgment mattered more than formal authority.
Earlier in my career, I worked as an independent consultant and as a Consulting Training Officer with The Development Alchemists, a COnsulting company owned by British in Italy, supporting international trainings and conferences for organisations within the UN system and beyond. I was also part of ITCILO in my first professional years (2016–2018), starting as an intern and later as a consultant, supporting large academies and forums in Europe and Africa, coordinating materials, participants, and live delivery.
Across all these contexts, what has remained constant is my proximity to delivery and management of stakeholders. I am used to working where things are concrete, messy, and time-bound, and where coordination, clarity, and follow-through make the difference between an event that happens and one that actually works.