The Monument — Pino Capasso

Born in Florence, Stefania grew up inside the craft. As a university student she was already at her father's side: from 1983 to 1987 she taught the theory at the four branches of the Pino Capasso Schools, writing the teaching programmes and audiovisual materials herself, along with the texts and the image that carried the schools' advertising. Those were also the years of the theatre — organizer, press writer and presenter with the Zauberteatro company — of the executive secretariat at the Circolo Borghese Stampa, and of organizing cultural events for her Florence district. Then came her degree in Education Sciences.

Then a path entirely her own, far from the salon. Brussels, 1987: at U-MAN she learned the consulting trade — candidate selection, potential analysis for companies across central-northern Italy — and in 1990 became its partner for Italy, opening the Central-Italy office with another entrepreneur. Between 1993 and 1996, a Florentine interlude in fashion, heading womenswear buying for Palazzo della Moda and the Saluti e Baci boutique. From 1997, nearly a decade with the Mind Consulting Group, helping build its analysis tools and manuals, becoming Area Manager and Sales Director for Tuscany and Umbria in 2000 and a partner from 2003, leading eighteen agents, collaborators and consultants. In 2006 she co-founded Microskill with three other managers, a firm for selection, training and corporate coaching; in 2014 she joined World Wide Engenial, again in human-resources training. In between, ten years of international management training, from Florida to England: leadership, sales, communication, people management.