Bruna De Palo

Breakthrough Starts Now was a weekly series of interactive, science-based and humorous webinars to help people turn the lockdown into an opportunity to grow. Through an accountability system, the participants set up their own goals and through a series of weekly exercises they created a clear vision and an action plan that to create a more fulfilling life after the Covid-19 crisis.

The Soka Gakkai International (SGI) is a community-based Buddhist organization that promotes peace, culture and education centred on respect for the dignity of life. SGI members uphold the humanistic philosophy of Nichiren Buddhism in 192 countries and territories around the world.

The Community of Sant'Egidio is a Christian community that is officially recognized by the Catholic Church as a "Church public lay association". It claims 50,000 members in more than 70 countries. Its main activities are: Prayer, centered around a reading of the Bible Spreading the Gospel to help people who are looking for a sense to their life. Service to the poor, which is free and unpaid Commitment to ecumenism (the Community of Sant'Egidio is also ecumenical, though being rooted in the Catholic Church) Dialogue with members of other religions and non-believers. The Community of Sant'Egidio was founded in Rome in 1968 by a group of Roman high school students led by Andrea Riccardi. It is named after the Roman Church of Sant'Egidio (Italian for Saint Giles) in Trastevere, its first permanent meeting place. Since 1968, the community has gathered each night to pray and read from the Bible, reflecting on the Gospel, eventually spreading throughout the world with a mission of helping those in need. Their activities include setting up refuges for the old, hospices for AIDS patients, and printing a handbook titled "Where to Eat, Sleep, and Wash in Rome" as gifts to the homeless. The charitable efforts of Sant'Egidio also led it to be a well-regarded mediator of peace negotiations. In the late 1980s, the Community came to the realization that their humanitarian efforts in Mozambique, then torn by the Mozambican Civil War, could not succeed without peace. In 1990, the Community was accepted by the ruling FRELIMO and rebel Mozambican National Resistance as a mediator, playing a key role in the Rome General Peace Accords signed in 1992. They continue peace initiatives in Algeria (notably the 1995 Sant'Egidio Platform), the Balkans, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and other areas, in the belief that war is the "mother of every poverty”.

How big are your challenges? What if you become bigger than them?

By working together on your Leadership Vertical Development, you will expand your way of thinking and interpreting the world, and through the implementation of neuroscience research-based tools, frameworks and perspectives you will:

Improve your performance and impact
Prioritise energy management vs time management
Develop executive presence and further your career
Enhance your virtual leadership
Develop Human Leadership over Business Leadership
Create a psychologically safe environment
Develop emotional agility and conversational intelligence
Horizontal Development = acquisition of new skills, knowledge and competencies.Vertical Development = elevation of your level of consciousness, expanding your thinking, acting and leading capabilities.

With over 20 years of experience in corporate and further studies in neuroscience and psychology, Bruna partners with senior leaders to improve their mental habits and expand their thinking, acting and leading capabilities.