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Silvia Baroni

Organizing remote Hackathons: my experience and best practices by starting from zero.

Innovation needs a purpose and a bunch of people willing to give space to it.

6 min readOct 1, 2020

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Hybrid facilitation: merging online and offline interactions.

The forced work from home adjustments we’ve all been navigating has led to some interesting and exciting developments in how we operate in…

5 min readJun 2, 2020

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Virtual Design Thinking Workshops: my experience and best practices.

A worldwide shut-down like the one we’ve seen around the COVID-19 outbreak is something that’s almost unprecedented within the working…

5 min readApr 27, 2020

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The acceleration of remote facilitation (and the disruption of my own job).

After creating from zero, an online community in Volkswagen where to meet-up digitally, organized an online Hackathon with 1000s of people…

4 min readApr 6, 2020

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The acceleration of remote facilitation (and the disruption of my own job).

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Silvia Baroni

The courage of taking risks, and break down fences.

Last week on Friday and Sunday evening I participated at the performance of Taylor Mac, “A 24-Decade History of Popular Music” over four…

3 min readOct 21, 2019

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The courage of taking risks, and break down fences.

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Silvia Baroni

The Fintopia journey.

Learning to learn to transform yourself.

6 min readOct 7, 2019

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The Fintopia journey.

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Silvia Baroni

Beyond breaking your habits and ‘getting naked’, new work.

A few weeks ago I published my article about cultural change: “To foster change, you need to get naked”. Here I will go deeper into my…

4 min readApr 8, 2019

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Beyond breaking your habits and ‘getting naked’, new work.

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Silvia Baroni

To foster change, you need to get naked.

I was inspired by visiting the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin recently. The famous “The Big Nudes” encouraged me to think about…

3 min readMar 11, 2019

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To foster change, you need to get naked.

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One rule of thumb for changing your system and culture: people’s ownership.

You can’t change people’s mindset and corporate culture if you don’t change the processes and the system itself. Also, you can’t change…

4 min readFeb 25, 2019

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One rule of thumb for changing your system and culture: people’s ownership.

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To be innovative you need to go against the grain of your usual habits.

The Radical Divergent Thinking approach taps into the human courage to break the habits-loop, to become aware of them, and to make…

3 min readFeb 11, 2019

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To be innovative you need to go against the grain of your usual habits.

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Silvia Baroni

Silvia Baroni

Senior Strategic Designer @ VW Group Services | Helping people & teams access to more possibilities and co-design organizational and behavioral change.

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