Fiona Passantino | SpeakerHub

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Current position (1)

AI, Engagement, Communication Specialist

Executive Storylines

Achievements (1)

Winner UK Business Book Awards

The Handbook for Post-Covid Engagement received an award of excellence for business literature in the "International" category for the UK Business Book Awards! Fingers crossed for the final selection in May.

Degrees (1)

Masters in Leadership and Management

University of Amsterdam Business School

2018 to 2020

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Culture & Engagement

Long before the pandemic changed everything about the way we work, Fiona Passantino started as an old-school comic artist and writer, then game and digital designer. She has worked as Creative Lead, Senior Visual Communicator, Innovation Advisor, Explainer and Storyteller for some of the largest multinationals in Europe, hopping from Vienna, London, Budapest to Brussels and Amsterdam.

Fiona Passantino is the Senior Culture and Engagement Manager and Internal Communication specialist and the author of the Comic Book for Executives series. These books combine highly visual storytelling with research-driven guides for improving our internal communications and employee engagement in our post-Covid world.

ChatGPT Integration

ChatGPT is a powerful tool that may revolutionize our lives as communicators. When used correctly, this application can improve the speed and quality of your work, open up new language markets, help with ideation and even make a difference in your personal life. Soon, behind every successful professional will be an open ChatGPT browser tab. As a professional communicator, leader or content creator, you will likely need to start integrating AI into your current and future workflows. However, it can be a complex system to set up and use effectively. Understand what AI can and cannot do, and learn the basics of professional ChatGPT integration. Fiona can work with you and your team to learn and practice the basics, and within the context of your organization. Future-proof your teams with this engaging and very useful keynote, workshop or training day.

High-Visibility Leadership

Often, our top-level leaders live in another world; they work at the same company with the same goals, vision and share the same elevators, but are invisible to the community working for them. How can leaders increase their presence, visibility, and interaction with the people making the company run, and still meet the needs of other stakeholders, clients, partners and board members? Five easy ways to start.

AI Integration Specialist

Fiona Passantino empowers professionals to improve their working communication, engagement and inspiration. She helps leaders and teams with AI awareness and integration, Leadership Visibility, Employee Engagement and Content Creation. This is done as a speaker, workshop facilitator, trainer or 1:1 executive coach.

Fiona’s AI training stems from a recent MBA masters’ program with a special concentration in Leadership and AI at the University of Amsterdam Business School. A frequent speaker, trainer, facilitator blogger and the 2023 UK Business Book Award-winning author of Comic Books for Executives, Fiona’s upcoming book, “The AI-Powered Professional”, is due for release in October. She is the host of the podcast “Post-Covid Leadership Advice”. Her company is Executive Storylines.

Presentations

Presentations (11)

Unleashing Employee Voice for Business Success

Radical Listening and building a sustainable plan for Employee Engagement

ChatGPT Integration for Leaders and Teams

Leaders today need to be highly visible. Physically, with teams and stakeholders but more and more, also digitally, producing meaningful posts and thought leadership content for internal and external audiences. When words are needed, ChatGPT can help. When refined for accuracy, voice and coherence, it’s a tool that can help raise your profile and get your message out. AI is intimidating. Here are a few facts you need to know. Five easy ways to use it and five best practices to make AI your b*tch.

Managing Rebels: Who They Are and What They Need

We all have one. The brash, high-performer with the big mouth. A fountain of radical ideas, constantly pushing back against the status quo. He bends the rules, ignores advice and does things his own way. Emotional, intense and stubborn, he takes your time and upsets others. You secretly wish he would just quit. But Creative Rebels bring something special to the workplace and are a fountain of energy, ideas and passion that can be positively channeled into your most loyal supporter. Eight ways to unlock the value in your Rebel.

Reaching the Factory Floor

For many multinationals, internal communication is split between the office workers and those on the factory floor. Plant and field workers have some of the hardest jobs and provide core value for the company. Yet this group shows low engagement and often feels out of touch with the organization. Who are these workers, and what do they need? Learn about the secret weapon to inform, engage and connect this group.

Habits of High-Visibility Leaders

Engagement is About the Details

Engagement Managers are often measured by how they move the needle on employee net promoter scores or attrition rates. But in fact, it’s all about the details. Conveying the feeling of being heard, seen, valued and respected in the workplace, and allowing for empowerment, inspiration and joy.

Understanding Flow

“Flow” contributes to increased job satisfaction and improvise our mental, physical and emotional well-being which naturally translates to higher levels of engagement and lower churn rates. The average workday, chock with meetings, incoming fire of communication, expectations and deliverables, needs to be carefully choreographed to create that all-important, critical ingredient for achieving “flow”: silence.

Radical Listening

"Radical Listening" means taking every opportunity to ask your workplace community what they want across a variety of channels and delivering results within 48 hours. In some cases done with “Listen and Deliver” tight loops, and in others, a “Cultural Deep Dive”. All these listening channels have very different goals and deliver different data. But the point is to build trust for when it counts: the engagement surveys.

Lessons from Mythology for Corporate Communication

As our world becomes ever more complicated and our way of life more unstable, technology more overwhelming and our role as humans more unsure, we need the skills of the ancient Storyteller and the tools of the Epic and metaphor to deliver us the information we need to survive as a tribe, and to inspire, to align and to remind us of who we are.

AI-Powered Visual Communication

ChatGPT is set to superpower our communication and content development. But what about our visual communication? What’s a GAN, what’s Image Diffusion, and how does visual AI work? MidJourney is one of a number of next-level text-to-image generators. When used correctly, this and other tools can make your presentations, training materials, onboarding, content creation and internal comms visually stunning and on-point.

We’re all empowered to become illustrators, designers and visual storytellers at the highest level by taking the first steps and learning to incorporate AI in our workflows. As a professional communicator, leader or content creator, you will likely need to start integrating visual AI into your teams and workflows. MidJourney, Adobe, Dal-i and others: learn how they work and how to and use them effectively.

Together, we will take our first look at image generating AI to see what it can and cannot do, understand where it is best applied in your context.

The AI-Human Co-Creation Workflow

Understanding AI and augmenting the Human for non-technical professional teams

AI is set to transform our working lives, challenging us to re-think how we perform as professionals and connect with our stakeholders. It will fundamentally change our most creative processes and how we interact with our teams, our employees and stakeholders.

Becoming a future-ready AI professional will require two major focus areas: attaining a greater understanding of the tools and what tasks will be separated out to the bot and what will remain in the Human domain. The next step is setting the stage for a successful and sustainable model of AI-Human Co-Creation.

Past talks (5)

Visual communication specialist and corporate storyteller with new release.

RADIO PODCAST INTERVIEW: Dutchbuzz

Dutchbuzz Podcast

January 9, 2021

EPISODE 5 – FIONA PASSANTINO – UNDERSTANDING POST COVID COMMUNICATION

FABULOUS AFTER FIFTY!

Podcast

January 10, 2022

The Power of Visual Storytelling

Unleashing Innovation in Digital Communications

Amsterdam de Balie