Maurizio Travaglini

Maurizio practices as a consultant in a space located within the blurred boundaries of innovation, change, learning, collaboration and co-design. He works together with his team, Architects Of Group Genius, to create the space for communities, organizations, individuals to identify and define their most critical challenges – and to develop new strategies and approaches to confront them, survive, thrive. The purpose of his work is to augment the individual and the collective capacity to deal with complex, systemic, adaptive challenges, and to create the context for people to do their best work and develop themselves as leaders. Maurizio has conceived, designed, led and facilitated over three hundred projects on five continents, for some of the most admired corporations, universities, and not-for-profit organizations in the world.

Maurizio serves as Adjunct Professor of Leadership and Innovation at the École des Ponts Business School in Paris and as a member of the Faculty Team of the “Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation” program at Harvard Business School. He also taught in the Executive Education department of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), serving as Academic Lead for the “Leadership and Design Thinking” program and the “IndyProject” program. In 2016, Maurizio was invited to the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos as a Forum Fellow.

Maurizio is co-author of the article “Unlocking the Slices of Genius in Your Organization,” published on the HBS Centennial publication Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice (2010). The article was co-written with Professor Linda Hill (Harvard Business School), Greg Brandeau (CIO of Pixar Animation Studios), and Emily Stecker (HBS).

Before founding his practice, Maurizio served as director for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. He spent over a decade in management and consulting roles for global organizations like Nokia, J.P. Morgan, and Accenture.

Education

• Master’s Degree Università Commerciale 'Luigi Bocconi' (1983 — 1988)

Companies

• Member of the Faculty Team of the "Leading And Building A Culture Of Innovation" Program Harvard Business School Executive Education (2017)
• Adjunct Professor of Leadership And Innovation École des Ponts Business School (2016)
• Founder And Managing Partner Architects of Group Genius (2003)
• Research Fellow Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2015 — 2017)
• Lecturer Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2013 — 2014)