hakademia
Where you will learn how to deal with the unknown.
Why our offering is unique.
Everyone is talking about the #NewNormal.
However, it is necessary to fill a skills gap to be able to face the new state of reality. A process to learn how to deal with the ongoing discontinuity and with every future one.
We need to prepare ourselves to do jobs that do not exist yet, which will use technologies and solutions not yet invented, to solve problems that we do not know are problems yet.
The purpose of HAKADEMIA is to prepare professionals and companies to face all this.
Introducing yourself to new topics for understanding and managing the unknown. Subjects such as System Leadership, Co-design, Complexity Management, Psychological Safety. At the same time, renewing with a different approach skills already recognized as critical, but never adequately addressed (social intelligence, public speaking and front of the room communication, intercultural and non-verbal communication etc.).
Human being first
We talk to the Person as a whole. Yet a person who acts within an organizational context to obtain a sustainable profit.
Our constantly expanding offering aims to cover areas and subjects, erroneously defined as soft skills by the market. Skills we prefer to name power skills that are critical for dealing with the complexity of the world today and for the future.
Inclined to innovation
In Hakademia, you will find themes and topics that are unique and certainly not so common in the catalogue of any other training agency (because we are not!).
You will also find more familiar subjects but be sure that we will offer them from a very different perspective.
15 years of experience in designing and leading workshops across the world with specific fields of specialization, give us a competitive advantage.
A chain of trust
To become an expert listed in Hakademia, someone has to pass a rigorous selection.
They have to have strong values and a bullet-proof work ethic.
They need to show a positive attitude, a “servant leadership”, something we value a lot.
And lastly, they have to be introduced by another expert.
We believe that under those rules, we will able to keep the quality of our services at the top.
Zero blah-blah
We are very pragmatic. We do not like to waste (y)our time.
We are aiming not just to inform but to transform our participants. We can do it teaching new tools, or supporting a change in mindset or giving you a very different perspective needed for a big leap.
Every training is highly collaborative, designed for giving you the best experience, many takeaways and full of case history.
Some example from our catalogue.
CHANGE IS LIFE
If everything seems under control, you are not going fast enough. — Mario Andretti. What is the change? What is innovation? Is different today than in the past? How can we deal with constant change? How can we communicate it?
SYSTEM LEADErship
We need a different kind of leadership with a different set of skills to deal with the uncertainties of the VUCA world (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity).
INTERCULTURAL MANAGEMENT
While working in multicultural environments, how can we calibrate strategy, behaviour and communication for leveraging and never neglect such a central factor in relationships
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
You might thing that just the ones with a need of speaking in front of many people are in the needs for learning “a better way to communicate to your audience”. But nothing could be more distance from the truth. A business meeting or a sales pitch, asking for a raise or managing a situation in business as in life we should always focus on improving our communication skills.
THE POSITIVE ORGANIZATION
Everything change: priorities, values, individuals, context. How organizations react to this? The ones that are responding with a strong focus on values and people more than just profit are dealing better and still attracting talents. Those are the “positive organizations”. Which are their characteristics? How can we become one?
INTRAPRENEURSHIP
Know your weaknesses and strengths, take the right risks, trust yourself, better plan, be able to change. In short: manage yourself as if you were a company. A way of living your career (and ultimately your life) that will be more and more critical for your success and your happiness no matter if you will work as a freelancer, employee or entrepreneur.
BIG FAT LIES
How many times spotting a lie would have been a key for a success? It takes a specific set of skills to spot and, nevertheless, to say lies. A critical skill to acquire for everyone with a business involving relation with other human beings.
Meet your experts
Andrea Guida
System leadership and COdesign expert, facilitator, strategy consultant with a fling for complexity management.
He has recorded a few dance music records, had clients on 4 continents and met (once) Angelina Jolie.
Francesco di fant
Communication, Body Language, Public Speaking and Lie Analysis expert, with more than 15 years of experience. Consultant and trainer, visiting professor in some Italian university, speaker, author of books and articles on body language.
Turn on the TV on some Italian national channel, and you may see him. Especially if some scandal just happened.
Rodolfo MAGGIO
PhD from the University of Oxford, PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester, studied anthropology at the London School of Economics & Political Science and the Waseda University in Japan.
A strong academic profile, with a consultant touch. In understanding rituals, cultures, habits, spotting stereotypes and prejudices, no one can compete. Author of several books. Oh! And fluent in Japanese.
EDOARDO SALA
Graduated from the London Academy of Dramatic Arts, with an MBA, Edoardo is a well-known expert in public speaking. When it comes to pushing out the leader in you... well, you first need to find him and then teach him how to talk fitly. In doing this magic, Edoardo doesn't have many competitors.
If he is not of the stage to teach or act, then you can find him riding a vintage road bike at the Eroica race.
RAFFAELE SANTORO
Raffaele is a seasoned facilitator, workshops and collaborative training designer, Corporate Culture expert and recently Chief Happiness Officer graduated. He loves playing soccer (have you ever seen Messi?).
Besides, he holds a degree in psychology.
GIUSEPPE PETROSINO
Giuseppe is a certified coach and value creation expert with a long experience in the pharmaceutical industry. In his career, he has managed to ensure that a needed rigour never stopped his will to think about People before numbers.
If he's not riding a motorbike, he is probably climbing a mountain.
The world is changing.
Discover how to deal with it.
What did struck you reading about Hakademia? How can we support your needs? Do you think about an online or face-to-face session? Do you prefer a speech or a lesson? A single event or an upskilling process?
Whether you are a professional or a company, for these and other questions, book a call now, and one of us (not a salesman!) will be pleased to answer all your questions and introduce you to our catalogue in details
Why did we choose the name HAKADEMIA?
The Haka is a well-known Maori dance that expresses the inner feeling of the one who performs it and can hold multiple meanings. It is not just a war dance or an act of threatening, as it is often mistakenly considered. The Haka can also be a manifestation of joy or pain, a way of free expression, leaving performers the freedom of movements.
Why images of trees?
Because trees are the representation of beauty and long life. Because a tree is a living image of individual strength, in a collective and well connected environment. Because trees are synonymous of growth and solidity. Because plants have evolved perfectly in all conditions, not being able to escape from danger as animals do: a real example of constant and successful evolution.
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