Introducing Myself

Federico Fioretto

WHO AM I:

First and foremost, I am someone who is deeply curious about life.

I was born into a family of entrepreneurs – a second-generation entrepreneur – and went on to set up my own businesses; but throughout my life I have explored many different paths: music, competitive sport, consultancy, writing, theatre, shamanism and frontier sciences, as well as the world of medicine and healing.

This exploration has led me, over more than 40 years, to work in many completely different contexts, across three continents, with a few forays into the Indian subcontinent as well.

Today, I can say that my professional passion is to inspire and support courageous people in discovering and expressing their potential, thereby fostering lasting wellbeing, health and prosperity.

I love helping people to live a fulfilling life, building healthy relationships in harmony with their ecosystems.

Similarly, I love helping organisations and businesses to thrive by adopting models of sustainable leadership, as well as conflict transformation practices, thereby unlocking their potential to be a positive force in society and the world.

SOME RECENT EXPERIENCES:

  • Co-founder and Vice-President of IES – European Institute of Studies in Bio-Psycho-Existential Sciences.
  • Founder and CEO of Exsulting, and creator of the Embedded Sustainability Index®. ESIndex® integrates sustainability into all business processes.
  • Creator of the CASE® Method for leadership, conflict transformation and transitions.
  • To teach CASE® in 2014–2015, I was one of only two Europeans selected by the US President’s YALI programme for the training of new leadership cohorts for Africa.
  • I founded and chaired the Integrated Sustainability Working Group at AIAS, Italy’s leading organisation for environmental and safety professionals.
  • Member of the ERPB (Education & Research Practitioner Board) at VCare Academy, an international organisation promoting sustainability and excellence in the supply chain.
  • European Partner of the Centre for Corporate Performance and Sustainability in Boston. An academic centre providing training in integrated sustainability management for executives and managers.
  • Partner of the Smart Industry Forum in Copenhagen, an international hub for the development of new business models and leadership for Industry 4.0.
  • Registered Provider for Leadership and Conflict Transformation at the European Parliament.
  • Adviser to the Health Management Board at the Meyer University Hospital in Florence on projects to humanise paediatric medicine.
  • Lead Expert for FNOMCeO and the Ministry of Health on the development of the first course and handbook on communication in healthcare.
  • Represented Italy for four years on the Steering Committee of the leading international scientific society for communication in medicine (EACH – International Association for Communication in Healthcare).

 

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Studies

LL.M. Hons (1st Class), MS in Communication, I specialized in Sustainability Systems Management at Harvard University.

I have been member of some Scientific Societies, currently SEAL (Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law) and EACH, (the International Association for Communication in Healthcare), the most important international Scientific Society in the field, where I represented my Country in the Steering Committee for 4 years.

I have been trained in the EFQM Performance Framework and to the Lean Six Sigma approach.

After a three year training I have acquired the EACH Certificate of “Deep Studies of Communication in Healthcare” as Trainer.

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Publications

I have published books on various issues; among them strategic sustainability, ethics in business, conflict transformation, communication in Medicine and the crisis of modern society. Some of my books are available in both Italian and English. My latest book is a fantasy novel: “The return of the immortal”.

I have been a regular collaborator of specialised magazines, among which AIASMAG, WEMAG and Leadership & Management, with articles on Leadership, Sustainability and the Circular Economy. I am also Peer Reviewer for Elsevier Publishing Group.

I have published various essays and articles on peace studies and on Mahatma Gandhi, of whom I am a passionate scholar, receiving in 2007 the prestigious prize “Tiziano Terzani, Florence for the Cultures of Peace”.

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Associations & Volunteering

I have a thorough experience in social engagement in the business field – having served for fifteen years at various executive level in Confindustria, the Italian Employers Association – as well as in civil society – having co-founded and chaired for over ten years the NGO NEOTOPIA, internationally active for freeing society of Structural Violence.
I am currently vice president of IES, a Bio-Psycho-Existential sciences research & educational organisation.
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Theatre for peace

Since 2022, I have been bringing to the theatre, and beyond, a talent that until then had only been used for the benefit of family and friends: the improvisation of short stories and stories with high content.
“The One Tells”, in theatre, and “the One Walks”, in Nature, are the two formats I propose to those who want to organise these interactive events from which participants draw inspiration and comfort. Download the programmes in the Media section.

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My Collaborations

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