As Principal of ParticipAction Consulting, Inc. Adriano Pianesi brings 15 years of his rich experience in the nonprofit, government and private sector to his work in training adults, course development, facilitation and e-learning. He is an innovator and practitioner in dialogue education and conversational learning. Adriano's strengths lie in his ability to diagnose clients' underlying organizational issues to develop and implement strategies that support organizational change and meet client business goals. He has built a reputation for developing concepts, processes and systems for learning and lasting change.
Prior to founding ParticipAction, Adriano was Lead Training Consultant at Serco, Inc. where he provided business training services in support of a large scale Oracle CRM implementation. He directed training for 800+ users in numerous locations across the country. During this project, he began experimenting with the use of alternative methods of training adults in IT systems implementation projects and other change management initiatives, focusing on the power of dialogue, experience and hosting in adult learning experiences. This became the foundation of The Learning Construction Site, a signature training method developed by Adriano and the basis of the article, "The Learning Construction Site: Unlearning and Rebuilding New Knowledge" published in The Systems Thinker, in August 2008. (see our Resource page)
Some of the organizations Adriano has worked with include the U.S. Army, the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation, the USDA Graduate School, SiloSmashers, the U.S. Department of Justice, the National Labor Relations Board, Aderas, Keane Federal Systems, MRIS and the YMCA of Greater Omaha.
Adriano is a certified Action Learning Coach and Harvard Discussion Method expert. He holds an MBA from the University of Milan and speaks (and trains in) Spanish, French and Italian. Adriano conducts annual sessions at the International Association of Facilitators and the System Thinking Conference. He is actively involved with the Training Officers Consortium and is a member of the Society of Organizational Learning.
More on Adriano in his LinkedIN page