Background

Gisela has been working for more than 20 years as a trainer, facilitator, speaker and consultant, helping employees of all hierarchic levels to improve their skills in Creativity , Innovation, Idea Generation and Change Management

Education

• Bachelor in Social Communications

Graduate Courses

• Team Building at the Catholic University in São Paulo
• Role Playing at GETEP, a Brazilian Psychodrama Institute
• Group Dynamics at the Brazilian Society of Group Dynamics
• Innovation Management, Knowledge Management and Estrategic Business Management at FGV – Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo
• Leading Working Groups , Instituto Pichon Rivière, São Paulo
• Design Thinking at ESPM, São Paulo
• Cyber culture and the new working mindsets at the Catholic University in São Paulo

• Over 100 short term courses on Creativity and Innovation, Training Skills, Leadership and related subjects

Studies Abroad

• Teaching and Facilitating CPS at the State University College at Buffalo, US
• The La Jolla Program with Carl Rogers at the University of San Diego, US
• Training the Trainers with Edward the Bono at the Management Center Europe in Belgium – Brussels
• Targeted Innovation , Leading Creatively and the Leading Creatively Alumini Meeting at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina, US
• Technologies for Creating and Structural Consulting with the Fritz Group in Essex, Massachusetts, US
• Building, Leading and Sustaining the Innovative Organization at the Sloan School of Management (MIT) , US

International Experience

• Attended nine times the annual meetings of the CPSI (Creative Problem Solving Institute) from the Creative Education Foundation in Buffalo, New York, where she also experienced being a speaker and a Home Base Leader.
• Implementation in Brazil of the Idea Program developed by Maritz Inc.
• Lecturer of the International Network of Experts on Creativity and Innovation in Germany and Canada
• Lecturer at the Fourth Creativity Meeting ACOCRE in Costa Rica
• Trainer for the Latin America Program of Creativity at IFF – Essences and Fragrances
• Trainer at ESADE Business School in Spain
• Trainer at the University of Madrid, Spain
• Acculturation and deliverance of a sales training event for DSM
• Co-facilitator of workshops developed by Potential2

Language Proficiency

Gisela delivers training programs in Portuguese, Spanish and English and speaks Italian and French at intermediate level.