Stefano Besana
Digital and Future of Work Leader
Autohor – Speaker – Advisor
Main Topics:
- Artificial Intelligence / Human–Machine Interaction Design
- New AI-enabled models of work: organizational impacts, data culture, risks, and opportunities.
- AI ethics and governance: “human-on-the-loop,” accountability, and new decision architectures.
- The history of AI, cognitive paradigms, and future trajectories.
- AI use cases in organizations, with a focus on HR, talent management, performance, wellbeing, and safety.
- Leadership and AI: how to lead hybrid human–machine systems.
- Rethinking the enterprise of the future: purpose, meaning, direction, and socio-technical design.
- Skills and learning in the age of AI: advanced learning models, cognitive and metacognitive capabilities.
- Agentic systems: how to collaborate with intelligent agents and orchestrate AI ecosystems.
- Philosophy of technology (Simondon, Gehlen, Dennett) applied to organizations.
- Technology as a cognitive device and mediator of meaning.
- Responsible innovation cultures: principles, policies, ethical lenses, and socio-cultural impacts.
- Future of Work / New Ways of Working
- Hybrid working, flexible design, and new organizational models for the 2030 enterprise.
- The evolution of skills and leadership paradigms.
- Sustainability, inclusion, and shared value: designing human-centered organizations.
- Emerging technologies and the transformation of professional roles.
- Workplace experience: how physical and digital environments shape behavior, productivity, and wellbeing.
- Digital Transformation
- Social Media, the Metaverse, and Digital Collaboration as strategic levers for business transformation.
- People Experience and Transformative Experience Design: creating experiences that shift mindsets, motivations, and behaviors.
- The datafication of work and Analytics: metrics, measurement, and decision-making in digital evolution.
- Generative AI as an accelerator of processes, creativity, and new value creation.
- Psychology of Innovation / Collaborative Innovation
- Collaborative Innovation: designing collaborative organizations, platforms, and innovation networks.
- Gamification as a cultural and learning transformation driver.
- Networked Flow and Positive Innovation Networks: the psychology of innovation as a competitive advantage.
- Neuroscience, cognitive biases, and decision processes in innovation.
- Change readiness and cognitive resistance: preparing people and organizations for deep transformation.
- New performance models: from control to advanced collaboration.
- Cognitive enhancement, metacognition, and lifelong learning.
- Managing cognitive load and digital wellbeing.
- AI & HR as Strategy
- AI as a strategic lever for HR: governance, policies, operating models, and risk management.
- Talent management 2030 scenarios: automation, intelligent agents, data, and capability development.
- AI literacy: new cognitive, critical, and technical skills for leaders and the workforce.
- Redesigning HR processes with AI: recruiting, onboarding, performance, learning, and wellbeing.
- Data-driven workforce planning: anticipating skill needs, role evolution, and career pathways.
- Algorithms and HR decisions: fairness, transparency, auditing, and impact assessment.
- Employee trust and the psychology of data: building confidence in systems that collect and interpret worker data.
- Human–Machine teaming in HR: designing collaborative and integrated human–AI processes.
Professional Profile:
A thought leader on transformation and cultural change. Professor and invited speaker. Ph.D. in Psychology of Innovation. He holds a dual bachelor’s degree in learning processes and neuroscience and an MSc in education. Karatedō master. Book author.
Currently, Stefano is a Partner at Deloitte Consulting – Organization & Workforce Transformation | Human Capital. Stefano works on Organizational Design and Change Management projects for large organizations.
Before that, Stefano steered for 10 years the Digital and Future of Work solution within EY, where he was responsible for wavespace Italy: innovative and collaborative hubs for transformative experience design. He spent the last 15+ years working with large and international organizations in highly demanding environments where he led and managed projects on digital and cultural transformation, HR transformation, organizational design, talent management, open innovation, change management, analytics, data culture, digital adoption, and social collaboration.
On top of his professional activities as a consultant, he is also a professor for diverse business schools and universities about using social and digital media to heighten business outcomes. He has also published articles and papers for several business magazines (including Harvard Business Review) and four books devoted to gamification, digital transformation, collaboration, and the future of work.
Stefano has a master’s degree in long-life education, and a bachelor’s in learning processes achieved with a thesis on using social networks within companies to generate significant learning (awarded by Telecom Italia as one of the most innovative Italian projects). He has also been a visiting student at UCLA. Stefano also has a second bachelor’s in psychology and neuroscience.
He holds a Ph.D. in transformative experiences to study the impact of networked flow on innovation.
A fifth-dan black belt, he is a master of Shotokan Karate.
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