Marco Mancesti is a renowned expert in strategy and leadership, serving as a coach, trusted advisor, and sparring partner to senior executives facing difficult challenges and/or taking on new strategic roles.

He brings a unique combination of hands-on experience and innovative methodologies to the table. Marco is a certified change management Practitioner (PROSCI) and a Certified Facilitator & Master Coach for sustainable teams with 18 drivers Actitudes™. His expertise is further enriched by the development of the Implementagility™ model for agile strategy execution and organizational excellence. He also developed the “stakeholder tripolarity model”.

With a solid foundation in business administration and management skills sharpened at IMD in Lausanne, Marco’s career began in the pharma/biotech field, where he gained invaluable experience working with executive teams and participating in a major corporate merger. His tenure as R&D Director at IMD for over a decade, particularly during the challenging times of the 2008 financial crisis, allowed him to focus his research on agility in a volatile world (VUCA). His insights on this topic are among the most read on Google.

Marco’s approach is characterized by a system thinking perspective, which he effectively applies when facilitating strategy and change workshops with clients, from SMEs to large corporations. His organizational excellence framework, embedded in the digital platform Gerositus®, offers clients a powerful tool for conducting transformation initiatives, simulating strategic scenarios, managing stakeholders and making crucial decisions.

As an educator, Marco teaches strategy, stakeholder management, decision-making, learning organizations and mastering presence in several institutions and customized in-company programs, bringing real-world examples into the classroom.

He is Fluent in English, Italian, and French.