Annalisa has multi-disciplinary expertise in organisational consulting, development studies, and environmental science and water engineering. This experience provides her with a complex lens she uses to observe and accompany people in roles, organisational contexts and changing environments.
She brings knowledge in systems psychodynamic theory, group relations methodologies, socio-technical system theory, complexity theory, and their application to organisational consultancy.
She calls on a diverse range of experiences – in NGOs, CSOs and businesses – and offers the knowledge that comes from many years of making things happen, working with people in different contexts worldwide, and understanding how the world and issues look from varied and diverse perspectives. She offers an acknowledged practical wisdom and authentic worldliness.
Between 1999 and 2012, she worked in several countries of the Global South with long missions in Somalia and DPR Korea, and short missions in Cameroon, Chad, Libya, Tanzania, Senegal, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, and PR China. She moved to Brussels in 2013 and has worked mostly with membership organisations in the Brussels arena since then, always with a strong interest in understanding our interconnected world and striving for global solidarity.
Certifications
Certificate in Coaching for Leadership, Psychodynamic Approaches (2022), accredited by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (London, UK). Member of the Tavistock Community.
Hosting World Café (2020-2021), Fielding Graduate University (Santa Barbara, California; online). Member of the World Café community.
Practitioner Certificate in Consulting and Change (2018-2019), accredited by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (Cambridge, UK).
The Leicester Conference, Task Authority Organisation (2017), two-week, residential, Group Relations conference, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (Leicester, UK).
MA, International Master of Advanced Studies in Cooperation and Development (2000), University of Pavia (Italy).
MSc, Civil Hydraulic Engineering (1995), University of Padua (Italy).
