I have made enough mistakes to know what works.
Entrepreneur, trainer, founder of three companies. I believe doing business means changing something: in work, in people, in the world around us.
Discover the method
Training, business, vision.
I am Paola Palmesano, entrepreneur and trainer: I work on women's empowerment in companies. Method, not motivation. I founded and lead three companies and I bring the IO SONO, CRESCO E BRILLO program (Italian for "I am, I grow, I shine") into organisations.
I started building my path when it was not yet normal for a woman to found a training company and actually make it grow. There was no manual, there was no mentor. There were choices to make, mistakes to fix, and the healthy kind of stubbornness to keep going anyway.
Today I run three companies: Ubloom, Effetto Formazione and HERvolution. Teams, corporate clients, real balance sheets. Everything I do comes from this concrete ground: training, programs with women, the method.
I will not tell you what one should do. I tell you what I did and what I learned doing it. Including the uncomfortable parts.
Founder of:
Where you will also find me.
I sit on the PWN Milan board dedicated to SME women entrepreneurs, on the executive board of Mosaikon and on the Artemide Observatory of Unipegaso. I mentor for SheTech, Young Women Network and AIDP, and I speak on women's leadership, entrepreneurship and the talent pipeline.
A journey of awareness.
Paola's path is made of choices, changes, moments of growth and awareness. Experiences that over the years led her to question the meaning of leadership, success and personal fulfilment.
From these reflections came the desire to create spaces where women can compare notes, grow and feel part of a community.
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.
