From Toys to Joys

I would be around 7 years old when I started destroying old toys to take out their motors. I don't remember having many toys, but I do remember that we managed to find them in the simplest things. With those motors, I built airplanes or boats, adapting an ice cream stick as propellers or blades. My parents associated these actions with an engineering vocation, but in reality, and according to several personality tests I would take 22 years later, they had confused my creative vocation with a scientific one. My parents' guidance led me to develop skills more typical of the left side of the brain (mathematics and sciences), without extinguishing my natural skills of creation, transformation, and innovation.

Years later, I became an electronic engineer, but the voices of creation and expansion were strong, so as soon as I graduated, I went to work in Italy and very soon I realized that engineering was used to create businesses. I wanted to understand how everything came together, so that path led me to pursue an MBA and subsequently work in banking, where I found a need that converged creation with engineering and business: Data and Analytics.

Today, I have worked for technology, banking, and retail companies, always in proximity to areas where I can create new things. For approximately the past 10 years, I have had the opportunity to serve others by leading teams of people, helping them discover their vocations, and in doing so, I come closer to my own vocation. This, to me, is the most significant form of innovation and transformation.