Renata Duretti
Partner
I have a deep experience as an HR Country Director. I am a Certified Coach, with a great attention to HR processes that I love to interpret, from the perspective of the people who live in the company every day.
I am a graduate in Economics and Commerce from the University of Turin. I have gained 20 years of experience as a manager in various companies, with different but complementary roles. This cross-functional path has given me a 360 ° vision, real because it was born from concrete field experiences which are precious for my current profession.
During my career, I have worked mainly in retail and industrial sectors. It all started in the management control area at Martini & Rossi. Later, I joined IKEA Italy, initially as Store Manager, and then as Country Manager for Logistics and Customer Relations. In the last 5 years, still at IKEA, I held the position of HR Director for Italy and I obtained certification as a coach from coachutbildning.se (ICF Fundamentals).
Throughout my career, I have consistently created and restructured business functions with very challenging objectives. This training has allowed me to understand the importance of fundamental factors such as knowledge, growth, team engagement, and lateral thinking.
From 2019 to 2021, I collaborated as a consultant with a leading international company on leadership and organization issues. Moreover, because inclusion has always been a top priority for me, I actively contributed to the development of national and international projects in the field of Diversity & Inclusion and was a Board Member of Valore D, an association committed to the development of women's leadership, for 5 years.
I am still a Board Member of The Circle Italia Onlus, which develops projects to support the world of women.
Michele Marchesan
Partner
I have a solid background in the industrial sector, with significant experience in international change management processes. I have developed deep expertise in organizational design at all levels.
I have been a manager for 30 years and I combine functional skills with different and complementary roles that have been significant in my career in the HR world. I have worked in very complex environments, particularly in matrix organizations. I have operated in all areas of human resources and gained important experience as a Line Manager in an industrial context. My knowledge of international realities is profound and my familiarity with intercultural issues arises from actual exposure to all geographical areas of the world. This exposure has seen me involved in corporate positions, but also at the business unit level. After a degree in Political Science, my path began in 1987 at Montedison and continued at Costan Refrigeration. Later, I held several managerial roles within the Electrolux Group in Italy and abroad: HR Director Industrial Operations at the European headquarters in Brussels from 2000 to 2006, General Manager of the Porcia plant in Italy from 2006 to 2010, Senior Vice President HR Global Operations, Major Appliances at the global headquarters of Electrolux in Sweden from 2010 to 2015. After an experience as Senior Vice President and CHRO at Datalogic, a global high-tech company based in Bologna, in 2017, I entered consulting, collaborating with a leading international company on leadership and organization issues.
We are two professionals who are strongly focused on the results of the business with a pragmatic and concrete approach. At the same time, we are attentive to the personal dimension and dynamics of teams. Our professional style is characterized by «creative kindness» because we deeply believe in non-selective listening that helps us in understand the true nature of problems more effectively.
We believe that jointly building a People Strategy with businesses is essential to achieving business objectives.
Creating added value is the focus that guides us.
We are professionals with significant management careers in our baggage. We have worked in advanced professional contexts, in companies with great international scope. And we have personally experienced high-level business tools.
We have experienced the business from different perspectives. This allows us to offer you our expertise to ensure adequate responses to your needs.