I believe that everyone is creative.
That’s why I’ve been building people’s creative confidence through mindful innovation.

For 10+ years, I have collaborated with private/public organisations and startups across Europe, and a bit beyond. I wore the hats of innovation consultant, in-house designer, speaker, teacher, mentor, event organiser, and podcast host.

I had the privilege of learning by working with amazing people (through failures and successes) and by studying (on courses, books, and podcasts) the topics of sustainability, social impact, system thinking, research, design, project management, storytelling, and mindfulness.

Personal education

  • Mindfulness facilitator

    Mindfulness educators

  • Intro to circular economy

    ISPI - Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale

  • Ecological Transition

    EIIS – European Institute of Innovation for Sustainability

  • Storytelling for Influence

    IDEO U

  • Designin a Business

    IDEO U

  • Creating Creative Collaboration

    IDEO U

  • User Experience Design

    General Assembly

  • Comic Book & Illustration

    UAL – University of the Arts London

  • Industrial design

    Università di Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”

Sustainability & social entrepreneurship

  • A Miro board gathering the research, evidence, prototypes and design principles of the planning tool investigated with sustainability, wellbeing and health data

    Facilitating the collaborative conversations between Natural England, experts and local authorities to create a tool using health, wellbeing and environmental data to inform planning decision making.

  • Creating Forestcar’s brand and pitch decks for a sustainable car sharing service to assure first rounds of customers and investors' interests and support.

  • Outcome of the ideation workshops where different aspect of the service were explored

    Helping Pavillion Places develop the idea and the pitch deck for a business to help local creatives regenerate unused commercial space.

  • Photo of one of the meeting where the digital tool was prototyped and tested with planning experts from Digital Places Catapult, Greater London Authority, and Southwark Council

    Helping Digital Places Catapult, Greater London Authority, and Southwark Council test a data-driven digital tool to inform London negotiations between local authorities and property developers for affordable housing.

  • Early paper prototypes used as prompts during research interviews

    Helping the UK Department for Education investigate the need for digital tools that improve the collaboration of children's social carers, healthcare workers and police.

  • Leading research and design activities at EasyPeasy, a digital service that helps parents create fun and educational family time with their children

  • Screenshots of "Hacka" the Minimum Viable Product presented to secure the NHS fundings

    Helping TickerFit develop create and gather validating evidence for an app for teenagers with cystic fibrosis and its pitch deck to secure NHS fundings worth over €500k.

Cultural change & Digital Transformation

  • A photo of a student interacting with University staff, take while shadowing them during service delivery

    Researching students and employees’ needs and facilitating stakeholder decision-making to strategise how the University of York could make it easier for students to access support services on campus and remotely

  • Photo of a repair services van taken during a diary study

    Helping Bloomberg Philatropies develop digital transformation capabilities a multidisciplinary team in Dublin City Council through project management and facilitation of their research, definition, prototyping and testing activities on how to improve social housing repair services

  • Photo of a Hackney employee sharing personal input and feedback on a storyboard of the future service experience

    Breaking silos within Hackney City Council through workshop facilitation, interactive presentations, and visual artefacts aimed to create a shared understanding and better conversations on how to improve service model in support for local homeless people

  • A storyboard used during meetings and presentation to facilitate conversations on the current experience

    Helping Bloomberg Philatropies develop digital transformation capabilities a multidisciplinary team Sofia Municipality through leadership and facilitation of their research and opportunity definition activities on how to make it easier for citizens to access municipality services

  • A frame from one of the animations showing Lloyds employees collaborating digitally on a case

    Helping the Fluxx strategy and innovation team bring to life the future vision and digital experience for Lloyds commercial banking through experience mapping, storyboards, prototypes and animations.

  • Real-size cutouts of the user personas, one of the many visual artefacts used on the project

    Participating in the Lloyds Lab Agile project where Fluxx helped a multidisciplinary team shift the company culture toward a lean mentality through visual and digital assets that brought the users at the centred of their decision-making process

  • User persona and service blueprint of the future experience

    Helping Homeserve (home repair service) adopt a human-centred approach through collaborative activities on customer research and the envisioning, mapping, prototyping and testing of future offers, services and digital products.

Building creative confidence

  • Miro canvas used for the facilitation of the creation of climate design principles

    At FutureGov, I facilitated and contributed in internal projects aimed to improve the company’s Diversity&Inclusion and the climate focus of the design practice

  • A training workshop with multidisciplinary business teams

    I taughted and evangelised design thinking methodologies to multidisciplinary organisational teams

  • Me speaking at MakeFest

    I’ve given talks about mindfulness, information architecture, and experience design at events like Makefest, World Class Designers Conference & Webinale Conference

  • Design, in Confidence Logo

    I host and produce “Design, in Confidence” – a podcast on how mindfulness and design can build creative confidence, improve emotional intelligence, and manage mental health.

  • A photo of one of the Creative Mornings London events

    I was one of the organisers of Creative Mornings London, a series of events where the London creative community could meet, connect, ask for support and get inspired by talks

  • Imagine of Stefano Bellucci Sessa supporting a student with an exercise

    As Lead Instructor at RED Academy, I defined the design part-time courses, taught students and coordinated the other instructors

  • A building of the LUMSA University

    I’m becoming a professor of experience and service design at LUMSA University of Rome