Systems thinker with practitioner roots
I don’t have a traditional career path, and I’m not trying to build one.
I’ve been a dancer. A CFO at a multinational. A digital transformation leader across five continents. Now I’m building movements to protect children in the digital world and reimagine how we teach in the age of AI.
The through-line isn’t a job title. It’s following what needs to be done, even when it doesn’t make sense on paper.
The Turn
The CFO role was the hardest one to leave.I’d reached what society calls success: C-level position, high-stakes decisions, good money. But success isn’t the same thing as rightness, and I didn’t want that role to define who I am for the rest of my life.
So I left.
What Found Me
I didn’t go looking for the work I do now. It found me.
When ChatGPT exploded into widespread use, I watched the gap between what was happening and what people understood grow dangerously wide. Society wasn’t prepared. Educators weren’t prepared. Parents weren’t prepared.
I decided to get educated about AI and pass that knowledge on. But the deeper I went (following responsible AI practitioners, reading the research, watching what was really happening online), the more I saw how enormous the problem actually is. The gap between what the digital world could be and what it is.
Once I saw it, I couldn’t look away. Especially knowing I have a daughter who will enter that world herself. How could I look away and decide it’s someone else’s problem?
How I Work
I don’t build small. When I see a problem, I build the solution, even if it means starting from zero.
Over the past two years, I’ve brought together 500+ practitioners from 40 countries: people working at the ground level of online safety, digital rights, and AI accountability. Many were doing brilliant work in isolation. Through SHIELD, their voices are now in the same room, amplifying each other and reaching audiences that would never have encountered them otherwise.
That’s how SHIELD started: as a network, then as infrastructure. For our 2026 conference, I coordinated 80 speakers from 25 countries and produced a 111-page reference document in 30 days.
That’s how SIGNAL emerged: the system that turns what practitioners see into structured evidence that decision-makers cannot ignore. A decade as a CFO taught me to read accountability structures and risk architecture. That lens is what allows me to translate ground-level knowledge into the language that governance conversations actually respond to.
That’s how GEN:R came together: reimagining learning and leadership for a generation growing up with AI as a given, not a disruption.
That’s how Data Girl and Friends started: educational materials that actually prepare children for the online world they’re inheriting.
And that’s how The Quiet Cost works, my podcast: I say what others are thinking but not yet saying out loud. I reframe conversations that everyone is having badly.
I’ve been featured on The Data Diva Talks Privacy, She Said Privacy / He Said Security, My EdTech Life, Humans WithAI, VR CyberTalks, What Gets Measured, Navigating the Digital Jungle, and others. I’ve created learning experiences for educators, parents, and organizations navigating AI and digital safety. I’m an ISTE Certified Educator, which means my approach to technology in education is grounded in evidence, inclusion, and learner empowerment, not hype.
Where I Am Now
I’m based in Italy, but I work globally. I grew up in the American Midwest and have lived in five European countries. That combination (Midwestern directness and European perspective) shapes how I think about problems that don’t respect geographic boundaries.
The internet doesn’t care where you live. The risks don’t either. So the solutions can’t.
Digital Transformation Experience
These are just a few examples of how I’ve led large-scale digital transformation initiatives that delivered measurable impact across multiple countries and industries:
- Managed a cross-country managerial merger, alignment and simplification through the implementation of digital tools
- Financial consolidation of 350 companies across 15 countries
- Established a leasing holding for shares in 15 countries and developed structures for Planning & Control
- In the role of CFO, led the turnaround of a company during an economic crisis
- Implemented a new core leasing and accounting system across 17 countries and 3 sub-consolidations
To me, a leader is someone who
Builds what's missing, not what's expected.
Follows what's right, not what's safe.
Acts when something needs doing.
Connects people who wouldn't normally be in the same room.
Makes space for voices that aren't usually heard.
International Experience
I’m based in Italy but work globally. I grew up in the American Midwest and have lived in Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, and France. I speak English, Italian, and German fluently, with working knowledge of French, Czech, and Slovak.
