When I was five years old, my father moved from Bergamo to Kuala Lumpur for work, taking us all with him to another continent, another language and many other cultures.

From one day to the next, we upped sticks and went, as the school year was just beginning and without a word of English.
That was my first grade – no mean feat, believe me!

One day I came home to my mother riding the immortal yellow school bus, and told her: “I understood that I have to take something to school tomorrow, but I didn’t get what’.

When I look back on that period today, I can see the values that would go on to inform my whole life: adapt, don’t lose heart and never stop learning.

I returned to Italy when I was 10 years old, and I consider that experience my luckiest break. I owe it my open-mindedness and near-native English.
Time has been ticking fast since then, and life has moved on. In the first 18 years of my life alone, I called home 6 houses, 4 cities and 2 continents.

I’m now 40 years old and I still hail this aptitude for change as my greatest asset in my personal life and career development.