Giovanna D’Alessio is a Partner at Asterys, a global organizational development firm with over 100 facilitators and executive coaches operating across 25+ countries. She is also the co-founder of AEquacy, a groundbreaking hierarchy-free organizational design that fosters collaboration, innovation, and performance by transcending the limitations of traditional hierarchical structures.Giovanna is the co-author of "AEquacy: The New Human-Centered Organizational Design to Thrive in a Complex World" and "5 Principles to Thrive in Complexity". Both books, available on Amazon, offer actionable insights into shifting from hierarchy to self-organization to better navigating challenges in today’s complex environments.As a trusted advisor, Giovanna works closely with CEOs, executives, and top teams on top team alignment, change management, culture transformation, leadership development. Her work focuses on driving mindset shifts and behavioral transformation to achieve lasting organizational impact.In 2002, Giovanna founded the Federazione Italiana Coach (now ICF Italia), the Italian Chapter of the International Coach Federation (ICF), where she served as President. Her contributions to ICF Global spanned nearly a decade, culminating in her role as President in 2010 after serving as Vice President, Treasurer, and President-Elect.A sought-after speaker, Giovanna has presented at international and local conferences, sharing her expertise on leadership, culture transformation, and personal growth. She is also the author of "Personal Mastery: The Path to Transformative Leadership" (Italian: Il potere di cambiare. Come sviluppare la leadership personale, published by Rizzoli Etas).Giovanna has been holding the prestigious Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential from the ICF since 2005 and is extensively trained in transformation facilitation, Voice Dialogue, Family and Business Constellations, Design Thinking, Deep Democracy, Open Space Techmology, Coaching Supervision, Holacracy and , of course, AEquacy.Before her career in organizational development, Giovanna gained extensive business and leadership experience. She founded and managed her own advertising agency for five years before joining Saatchi & Saatchi, where she served as Account Director and Head of the Internet Unit. Later, she led the Italian launch of Yahoo! Inc., eventually becoming European Marketing Director at Yahoo!’s London headquarters.