Maria Grazia Testa

Maria Grazia Testa is an expert in systemic approaches that enhance compassionate cognitive and behavioral responses. She helps private, public, and non-governmental organizations accelerate and intensify their sustainable impact by embracing complexity and a human-centric approach. She has run operations on 6 continents, driven transitions for multinationals worldwide, and led global programs affecting ecology, people, and economy in collaboration with the United Nations, the European Commission, local institutions, businesses, and civil society. In addition to her professional, environmental, and societal commitments, she brings expertise in engineering, the circular economy, organizational design, social sciences, and creativity, supporting evolutionary transitions and transformations that reconcile people and the planet. Her favourite quote is from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso: “We live very close together, so our prime purpose in life is to help others.”