To describe myself in a sentence, I'd quote Bruce Chatwin: “Travel doesn’t merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind.”

I started traveling when I was 12, thanks to CISV, a global organization dedicated to peace education through intercultural friendship and understanding. This experience inspired me to become a tourism professional, a job that allows me to have daily contact with people from all over the world, which I love! 

I graduated in Economics and Management of Tourism Services at the University of Bologna and since 1998 I’ve been working for Modenatur, incoming tour operator promoting Modena and its region, where I’m now director. I’m also the coordinator of the Tourist Office of Modena. I joined IWA Modena in 2018 since I find it's amazing to have the opportunity to share friendship and projects supporting the local community with a group of women coming from all over the world.

Fabiana Leal is a former Finance executive who worked for several multinational companies in different countries. After more than 15 years of living in the corporate world, in 2019 she swapped spreadsheets and numbers to follow her passion in advising professionals on their careers, something she had been doing for almost 2 decades for friends and colleagues.
She was a corporate executive, so she knows how hiring managers and recruiters think.
She is passionate about knowledge and a fast learner with an MBA and a Master's in HR at the Bologna Business School. She lives by the Italian hills with her husband and two daughters. She is building an international digital business, Career Lab 4IR, to help professionals with more than 10 years of experience market themselves in the digital transformation era. In less than two years, Fabiana has helped almost 100 executives of various nationalities get well-paid jobs and promotions.
She is a tireless coach and mentor with hunger for knowledge and execution. She was featured on Yahoo!Finance as one of the top career coaches to follow in 2020. LinkedIn editors constantly feature Fabiana's posts, recognized as insightful and contribution-driven.

Laura Munson is the New York Times and international bestselling author of the memoir This Is Not The Story You Think It Is:  A Season of Unlikely Happiness, and her new USA Today bestseller, the novel Willa’s Grove.  Her books have been published in nine countries and featured in Vanity Fair, Elle, Redbook, Time, Newsweek, Washington Post, Publisher’s Weekly and many other newspapers, magazines, and online venues across the globe.  
Laura speaks and teaches on the subjects of empowerment, creative self-expression, and the language of change, at conventions, universities and schools, writing retreats/workshops, and wellness centers.  She is the founder of the acclaimed Haven Writing Retreats and has worked with hundreds of people in locales around the States, and internationally.  
Her work has been published in the New York Times Modern Love Column, the New York Times Magazine, O. Magazine, The Week, Huffington Post, Redbook, Woman’s Day, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, More Magazine, The Sun, and many others.  She has appeared on Good Morning America, The Early Show, WGN, many NPR stations, Hay House radio, as well as other media including London’s This Morning and Australia’s Sunrise.  She lives in Montana with her family.

I am Inbal Haim and I am Israeli. I have been dancing since I was 5 years old, trying all styles from classical to modern, jazz, funk, hip hop, Latin American, group dance, Israeli dance. My destiny seemed almost defined (I wanted to be a dance teacher), but during my military service I also got to know the world of fitness; in fact, being an instructor of “Krav Maga” (self defense) and after some hard training, my dancers body was transformed into a more fit one! After my military service, I made the final decision and went to study physical education. I graduated, following parallel fitness and dance courses to obtain my teaching qualifications.
Lately I have been working, with great satisfaction, with pregnant women, elderly people, boys and girls who have never danced, children in the 4/6 range and many others.
My goal is to bring happiness to the people I work with, hoping that they get better,  and feel better. I love when they tell me: "since I have been doing ...my life has changed .."

Hi, I’m Lena!
I’m a nomad at heart, of multicultural background, always curious about the world, different cultures, human beings, places.
I’m a bodyworker, bioenergy healer, yoga and meditation teacher, massage practitioner and holistic mentor. I’ve always been interested in how body, mind, emotions and spirit interweave. Through my work, I take people home into their body, their being, into their heart, to the truth about who they are.
I love to see and create beauty in the world, pure human nature is a part of that.

Born and raised in Modena, Italy, I grew up surrounded by a rich culture in which art, passionate people and good food were integral to life. My drive to make an impact through my career is rooted in my deep passion for connecting with people from different cultures and creating together. This passion took me on a journey of 25 years of international corporate experience in several executive leadership positions across Europe and the US. 
Two years ago, I left the US and the corporate world to fully dedicate my life to helping individual finding their authentic voice. I moved with my husband to a sunny village in the south of Spain where we opened our company: Renaissance-cec.
Beyond work, I love painting, walking at the beach with my dogs, playing tennis and meeting new people.

Learn more here.

Lavinia Nitu is an international award-winning photographer and she specializes in Documentary Family Photography.
Her photography revolves around human nature and its interconnection.
She’s an intersectional transfeminist and her unique voice was strongly influenced by women mentors and art creators that she surrounded herself with.
Her work is an ode to the unseen. 

German by birth, Italian by marriage and international at heart. Isabell has more than 20 years of experience as a consultant in the fashion and retail sector and her profession has taken her across the world.
Aware of the difficulty of starting a new chapter of life in Italy, she founded "guidexpat" and is also the co-founder of "Here We Are Italy", a community aimed at supporting international families and global professionals to have a "soft landing " in Italy. Networker at heart and passionate about personal development, Isabell strongly believes that every goal is achievable, as long as she focuses her thoughts and mind in the realization process.