Tuesday, October 7, 2025 (9:30 am - 5:00 pm) Meeting

GLOBAL SUMMIT
IN PERSON AND VIA WEB
Human Resources Global Summit 2025
The power of diversity: people, organizations, culture, performance

NH Collection Milano CityLife Via Bartolomeo Colleoni, 14 - 20149 MILANO

Organizations that embrace and value diverse perspectives are often better equipped to navigate uncertainty, develop creative solutions, and build more resilient and high-performing organizations.

The HR Global Summit offers a unique opportunity to engage with world-renowned experts, international executives, and leading academics from top business schools, with the goal of exploring how diversity can become a true driver of performance for individuals, teams, and organizations.

Speakers

Nico Acampora

Founder, PizzAut

Stephanie Creary

Professor of Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Bret Freeman

Senior Executive Coach and Master Facilitator, NeuroLeadership Institute

Marco Grazioli

President, The European House - Ambrosetti; Board Member, TEHA Group

Giorgio Metta

CEO and Scientific Director, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)

Fabrizio Salvador

Professor, Operations & Technology Area and Vice-Rector for Applied Research, IE Business School

Daniele Santarelli

Head Coach, Imoco Volley Conegliano and Turkey Women's National Team

Kumari Williams

Chief VIBE Officer, Workday

Programme

October 07, 2025
9:30 am - 10:45 am Welcoming remarks

Daniele Santarelli, Head Coach, Imoco Volley Conegliano and Turkey Women's National Team
DNA Conegliano: a journey of diversity towards the future

Marco Grazioli, President, The European House - Ambrosetti; Board Member, TEHA Group
Virtue and constraints, freedom and alienation: setting, blocking, and spiking
10:45 am - 11:00 am Debate
11:00 am - 11:30 am Break
11:30 am - 12:40 pm Stephanie Creary, Professor of Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania 
Building effective relationships across different generations 

Kumari Williams, Chief VIBE Officer, Workday
VIBE (Value Inclusion & Belonging for Everyone) as a driver of growth for the entire organisation: the experience of Workday
12:40 pm - 1:00 pm Debate
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Networking lunch
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Fabrizio Salvador, Professor of Operations and Technology Management, IE Business School  
Experiential diversity as a lever for performance  

Bret Freeman, Senior Executive Coach and Master Facilitator, NeuroLeadership Institute
Smarter together: better results through the neuroscience of diversity

Giorgio Metta, CEO and Scientific Director, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology - IIT)
The power of diversity: the experience of IIT 
4:00 pm - 4:15 pm Debate
4:15 pm - 4:45 pm Nico Acampora, Founder, PizzAut
Nurturing potential. How diversity creates impact at work: the PizzAut case
4:45 pm - 5:00 pm Debate 

Wrap up and conclusions

Documenti dell'incontro

Nota informativa

GLOBAL SUMMIT
IN PERSON AND VIA WEB
Human Resources Global Summit 2025
The power of diversity: people, organizations, culture, performance

Nota informativa

Kit

GLOBAL SUMMIT
IN PERSON AND VIA WEB
Human Resources Global Summit 2025
The power of diversity: people, organizations, culture, performance

Kit

Documents

GLOBAL SUMMITIN PERSON AND VIA WEB
Human Resources Global Summit 2025
The power of diversity: people, organizations, culture, performance

Presentation by Marco Grazioli

GLOBAL SUMMITIN PERSON AND VIA WEB
Human Resources Global Summit 2025
The power of diversity: people, organizations, culture, performance

Presentation by Stephanie J. Creary

GLOBAL SUMMITIN PERSON AND VIA WEB
Human Resources Global Summit 2025
The power of diversity: people, organizations, culture, performance

Presentation by Fabrizio Salvador

GLOBAL SUMMITIN PERSON AND VIA WEB
Human Resources Global Summit 2025
The power of diversity: people, organizations, culture, performance

Presentation by Kumari Williams

GLOBAL SUMMITIN PERSON AND VIA WEB
Human Resources Global Summit 2025
The power of diversity: people, organizations, culture, performance

Presentation by Bret Freeman

GLOBAL SUMMITIN PERSON AND VIA WEB
Human Resources Global Summit 2025
The power of diversity: people, organizations, culture, performance

Presentation by Giorgio Metta

GLOBAL SUMMITIN PERSON AND VIA WEB
Human Resources Global Summit 2025
The power of diversity: people, organizations, culture, performance

OECD Employment Outlook 2025

OECD

GLOBAL SUMMITIN PERSON AND VIA WEB
Human Resources Global Summit 2025
The power of diversity: people, organizations, culture, performance

Organizational culture. Ignorance, quackery or play your culture

Cisca Jager, Bob Waisfisz

Egea

GLOBAL SUMMITIN PERSON AND VIA WEB
Human Resources Global Summit 2025
The power of diversity: people, organizations, culture, performance

Z Revolution. La generazione che sta cambiando aziende e lavoro

Andrea Iovene, Serena Affuso

FrancoAngeli

GLOBAL SUMMITIN PERSON AND VIA WEB
Human Resources Global Summit 2025
The power of diversity: people, organizations, culture, performance

Come coinvolgere una forza lavoro multigenerazionale

Catherine Collinson, Michael Hodin

Harvard Business Review Italia

GLOBAL SUMMITIN PERSON AND VIA WEB
Human Resources Global Summit 2025
The power of diversity: people, organizations, culture, performance

Cosa viene dopo la DEI

Lily Zheng

Harvard Business Review Italia

GLOBAL SUMMITIN PERSON AND VIA WEB
Human Resources Global Summit 2025
The power of diversity: people, organizations, culture, performance

IA e competenze: navigare il paradosso tra potenziamento e perdita di expertise

Francesco Bolici

Harvard Business Review Italia

GLOBAL SUMMITIN PERSON AND VIA WEB
Human Resources Global Summit 2025
The power of diversity: people, organizations, culture, performance

One more time: why diversity leads to better team performance

Ron Carucci

Forbes

GLOBAL SUMMITIN PERSON AND VIA WEB
Human Resources Global Summit 2025
The power of diversity: people, organizations, culture, performance

Merit-Based management demands DEI

Stephanie Creary, Marla Baskerville, Y. Sekou Bermiss, Atira Charles, Anthony C. Hood, Quinetta Roberson, Sean Edmund Rogers, Flannery Stevens, Alexis Nicole Smith

MIT Sloan Management Review

GLOBAL SUMMITIN PERSON AND VIA WEB
Human Resources Global Summit 2025
The power of diversity: people, organizations, culture, performance

Reframe the value proposition of diversity

Vijay Pendakur

Harvard Business Review

GLOBAL SUMMITIN PERSON AND VIA WEB
Human Resources Global Summit 2025
The power of diversity: people, organizations, culture, performance

La pratica della leadership adattiva. Strumenti e tattiche per trasformare le organizzazioni e le comunità

Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow

FrancoAngeli

GLOBAL SUMMITIN PERSON AND VIA WEB
Human Resources Global Summit 2025
The power of diversity: people, organizations, culture, performance

What role for AI skills in (re-)shaping the future European workforce?

Lucia Vesnic-Alujevic , Georgios Saitis

EPRS - European Parliamentary Research Service

GLOBAL SUMMITIN PERSON AND VIA WEB
Human Resources Global Summit 2025
The power of diversity: people, organizations, culture, performance

Workday Global Workforce Report

Workday

GLOBAL SUMMITIN PERSON AND VIA WEB
Human Resources Global Summit 2025
The power of diversity: people, organizations, culture, performance

Come aumentare il coinvolgimento dei dipendenti

Dorie Clark, Alexis Redding

Harvard Business Review Italia

Video of the meeting