Women stopping at middle management: it is not a lack of ambition, it is the system.
In Italy women hold 27.9% of managerial positions, against an EU average of 35.2% (source: Eurostat, 2024). In 25 years as a manager and entrepreneur I have seen where the path breaks: almost never competence, almost always legitimacy. My method works exactly there, with structured programs that HR and leadership can measure.
What remains afterwards, and where the method has just been.
What remains
- A written action plan after the two-hour roadshow
- The decisions taken in the first week
- The 90-day plan with goals HR can verify
Where it has just been
- Mario Negri Institute, Milan
- CX Now, a day for HR
- Milano Digital Week and ELLE Active!
- Happily, corporate welfare event
Io Sono. Cresco. Brillo.
The women's empowerment program I bring into companies, and the story I tell every Saturday in my LinkedIn newsletter. Three stages, measurable outputs, real business cases: method, not motivation.
IO SONO
Identity and awareness
CRESCO
Transformation and authority
BRILLO
Action plan and network
io sono
The community for women who lead.
IO SONO was born from a simple question: where do women who actually run a company, a team, a real responsibility meet to talk openly, without filters and without having to prove anything?
I could not find that place. So I created it.
