Caterina Maniscalco

Consultant & Global

A thought leader, Board member, published author on innovation leadership, and leader of innovation and transformation initiatives for businesses in US, EMEA and APAC. A record of success across strategic roles in global corporations, consultancies, and NGOs, as well as startups and agencies. Known for helping fine-tune leadership approaches, organisational culture / structure / behaviour change, operating models, and experiences that fuel meaningful innovation and outperform enterprise objectives. A multilingual Certified Agile Coach with an MBA, I recruit, develop, and manage multidisciplinary teams with integrity, mentorship and passion. A technologist with coding proficiency; AI & ML evangelist, I build machine learning models for fun.

* INDUSTRIES – Banking / FS, Life Sciences, CPG / FMCG, Automotive, Mobile, Telecommunications, Media, Entertainment, Technology, Mining, Government, Nonprofit.
* LANGUAGES – Native English & Italian; Near Fluent French; Conversational Spanish.
* US / UK / EU Citizenship with current work status for all (US, UK, & EU).

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANCY
* Financial services startup (mobile wealth) – partnered with founder to enhance design and features (including AI), regulatory compliance, customer experience, tech partners.
* Major US automotive client – drove successful Agile transformation: strategy, collaborative rollout plan, stakeholder management, people / systems / process change. Delivered tighter org structure, operating model, communications, metrics, and high-impact coaching.
* Global pharmaceutical client – led turnaround of agency-owned project in record time: redesigned mobile experience across 4 countries (indirectly saving lives); later rolled out across 20 countries with new experiences / devices. Led strategy, design, technical oversight, UX, project management, and cost approvals.

ACCENTURE
Headed client engagements in digital transformation, organisational change, business operations innovation, product strategy (a patentable one) and technology implementation for HSBC, Vodafone, and Disney, among others. Accenture awarded my work on the global transformation of (confidential) top-tier bank the Accenture Client Excellence Award.

AUTHOR
Published my first book in 2019: Distributed Leadership and Digital Innovation (Routledge, 2019), adapting my MBA (in leadership in transformation and innovation) text to address a broader audience and resulting in public speaking engagements at leadership events and universities on leadership, innovation and transformation