A deal with the devil – Lessons learnt from skiing
I signed a deal with the devil. In exchange for a beautiful black down jacket, I fell in love with from a prestigious shop in downtown Milan. My devil did not look like Brad Pitt (who can forget“I am Joe Black”?!?!), but the beautiful blue ski suit of the ski...
Are you ready for today’s and tomorrow’s challenge in Business Travel?
Milan and Amsterdam are two cities with a particular meaning in my personal experience. Milan: the city I adopted 20 years ago and where I returned to live after more than four years in Amsterdam. Two cities different from each other and united by far more than the...
What if it’s a movie? – Design Thinking explained with TV series and movies – Stage 5 Test
The five stages of Design Thinking, according to d.school, are as follows: Empathise, Define (the problem), Ideate, Prototype, and Test. During my workshops, I often use clips from movies or TV series to explain the different concepts related to the steps of the...
What if it’s a movie? – Design Thinking explained with TV series and movies – Stage 4 Prototype
The five stages of Design Thinking, according to d.school, are as follows: Empathise, Define (the problem), Ideate, Prototype, and Test. During my workshops, I often use clips from movies or TV series to explain the different concepts related to the steps of the...
Seven pills from ACTE Amsterdam Global Summit 2019
On 23-25 October 2019 the annual ACTE Global Summit & Corporate Lodging Forum took place in Amsterdam. The ACTE Summits are always a great opportunity for professionals working in the industry of Business Travel to learn about the developments in this field. At...
What if it’s a movie? – Design Thinking explained with TV series and movies – Stage 3 Ideate
The five stages of Design Thinking, according to d.school, are as follows: Empathise, Define (the problem), Ideate, Prototype, and Test. During my workshops, I often use clips from movies or TV series to explain the different concepts related to the steps of the...
What if it’s a movie? – Design Thinking explained with TV series and movies – Stage 2 Define
The five stages of Design Thinking, according to d.school, are as follows: Empathise, Define (the problem), Ideate, Prototype, and Test. During my workshops I often use clips from movies or TV series to explain the different concepts related to the steps of the Design...
What if it’s a movie? – Design Thinking explained with TV series and movies – Stage 1 Empathise
The five stages of Design Thinking, according to d.school, are as follows: Empathise, Define (the problem), Ideate, Prototype, and Test. During my workshops I often use clips from movies or TV series to explain the different concepts related to the steps of the Design...
The Business Travel Pyramid: the foundation for the perfect Traveller’s Experience
I’m one of those lucky women, who in her whole life has never put on weight! The gods (well, maybe my father and my grandmother) have bestowed me with a set of very generous genes, which over the years have allowed me to eat whatever I wanted with absolute zero impact...
A new blog is born!
Spring is a time of rebirth. Nature flourishes after the winter break and we, too, feel this drive for renewal. It is the right time to plan and start with new adventures. And so I too got caught up in this generating force, and my new blog was born! My relationship...