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Service sections are as follows:

Courses for Business Growth and Professional Development

Courses for schools and educational organisations

Courses for individuals and families

Live tours, guided by Geographers of Emotions and designed to develop management skills

Virtual journeys for storytelling, collaboration, team work and fun

Games to enhance your management skills

coming soon – there will be a forum where you can ask questions, support others and learn stuff whilst networking, all about CREATIVITY

A COMPASS FOR WHEN YOU GET LOST IN BRUSSELS

with Marco Bertagni

For Leaders, Managers, Decision Makers, and their Teams involved in growing and developing trade relationships and business in the EU.

6 hours in total, designed to be delivered as a one or two day workshop. Available in Italian, English or French

The world of lobbying is rapidly changing, and you must embrace this change in order to thrive. Successful representative organisations are less elephantine and costly than in the past: lobbying nowadays is less about formal aspects and more and more about focusing on key-issues to represent vis-à-vis EU institutions and about matching key-services demanded by clients. Your workshop leads, who have 30 years of experience in national and international lobbying organisations, offer a course of orientation in the new world of lobbying, starting from an internal decisional processes to get to the importance of believing in what has to be represented.

During the workshop we examine building effective relationships with companies/subjects of the Associations: they should not be seen as competitors, but as companions working towards a common goal. In addition, attendants will become familiar with the European Union Institutions, the way they work and their funding policies. Participants will be asked to map the Association/Organization they work for, in an innovative and non-conventional way, then use this map as a starting point to develop their own organisation.

For more information about booking this course for your business, either as a stand-alone or as part of a bespoke training package, please contact marco@bertagniconsulting.com

FULL ENGINEERING OF AN EXIBITION

with Marco Bertagni & Marco Barozzi

For Event Leaders, Managers, Decision Makers, Organisers and their Teams

6 hours in total, designed to be delivered as a one- or two-day workshop, available in English, Italian, French & Spanish

Business is emotional when it comes to customer experience strategies. The traditional rational consumer model has been challenged by a more intuitive consumer model. Rather than viewing customers as essentially rational in their decision making, the role of emotions in their decision making has received an increasing amount of attention and consideration. It is also a key component of building employee’s and customer’s trust.

The collaboration of fields and disciplines such as marketing, psychology, behavioral economics, and neuroscience have opened this view of consumer behavior understanding. Humans are largely emotional beings and customer behaviour is emotionally driven, almost entirely. We have the science to back it up.

We will go through the latest languages of communication by mapping the values your business wishes to share with potential clients during your exhibition and we will have an overview of how to design an effective booth, while still keeping in mind the main commercial and organizational rules of how to set up a fair, as well as post-exhibition management. We will also update Companies on the latest post-Covid-19 trends in exhibition management.

HOW TO PUT AN INTEGRATED STRATEGY IN PLACE

with Marco Bertagni & Laurent Peters

For Leaders, Managers, Decision Makers and their Teams

6 hours in total, designed to be delivered in a one- or two-day workshop, available in French and English

with Marco Bertagni

For Leaders, Managers, Decision Makers and their Teams

6 hours in total, designed to be delivered in a one- or two-day workshop, available in French, Italian and English

A project of any kind aims at improving the initial conditions of any given situation to a better level, be it from the environmental, social, or economical point of view. But there is so much more to effective project management than that, particularly in infrastructure, urban planning and other territorial design projects.

Typically, all people involved in project set-up, implementation and control focus on one particular aspect to be changed and improved, while positive or adverse side-effects and impacts are neglected or only marginally considered.

During this workshop, the moderator will elaborate a novel impact-tree, or more specifically, a geo-emotional map as a first step of a course based on the quantitative and qualitative aspects of project management, that will not only consider traditional aspects (economic, social, environmental), but will also bring to light dimensions linked to geography of emotions.

Case stories of water management will be examined like, for example, the reclaiming of the Zuiderzee in the Netherlands. Also, an overview of hottest geo-political water management projects will be offered to participants.

For more information about booking this course for your business, either as a stand-alone or as part of a bespoke training package, please contact marco@bertagniconsulting.com

WHEN THE PRODUCT BECOMES THE TERRITORY’S AMBASSADOR

With Marco Bertagbi & Melissa Rodriguez

For Leaders, Managers, Decision Makers, and their Teams involved in growing and developing international trade relationships and business

6 hours in total, designed to be delivered as a one- or two-day workshop. Available in English, Italian and Spanish

The concept of Genius Loci, the so called Somewhereness, is not only a geographical, philosophical or architectural speculation. It can be the base for a territorial marketing strategy and or the key-element to match companies in order to begin a joint trade action in international markets.

This workshop has been developed to facilitate a deep and multi-perspective knowledge of Somewhereness and how to apply this concept to policies of internationalization.

The tools and insights you will gain are particularly efficient for companies operating in the food and drink sector or the tourism sector, or any business producing goods and services that are functionally linked with territory.

For more information about booking this course for your business, either as a stand-alone or as part of a bespoke training package, please contact marco@bertagniconsulting.com

with Bernd Gibson

For Leaders, Managers, Decision Makers, and their Teams involved in growing and developing effective intercultural relationships

6 hours in total designed to be delivered as a one or two session workshop. Available in English and French

with Michael Connolly and Everita Strelca

For Aviation Professionals looking to provide the best possible service to travelers of all abilities, through their terminals

4 hours in total, designed as a one session workshop. Available in English

GROW YOUR TRIBE, ENGAGE WITH CLIENTS, DEMONSTRATE YOUR VALUE

with Ali Bagley

For Coaches and Small Business Owners wanting to develop their writing skills to grow their business

6 hours in total designed to be delivered as three x 2 hour weekly interactive sessions or can be purchased as a modular online course to follow in your own time. Available in English

with Marco Bertagni & team

For Leaders, Managers, Decision Makers and their Teams involved in urban planning and transformation

4 hours in total designed to be delivered as a single workshop. Available in English, Italian, Spanish and French

In urban and territorial planning, of any scale, it is appropriate to compose different professional profiles representing many visions of the world. Through an approach balancing classical quantitative elements with the more recent qualitative ones, it may be possible to really add value to the spatial assets on which we plan to intervene and, above all, to generate benefits to the human community living there. Geography - understood as a science that has as its object the study, description and distribution of the various phenomena of Earth, in the configuration of its surface and their spatial distribution as connected with human life - lends itself to act as a pivot around which aggregating other sciences, to approach an integrated knowledge of phenomena to not only reduce the margins of error, but to create the conditions for the new social dynamics. The territorial planner, the show runner in cinematography, is no longer a dictator: he must pay attention to architects, engineers, geographers, geologists, philosophers, psychologists and many other professionals, compose their visions and identify preventive reading tools of the territory on which they are about to intervene. Thus, going beyond the quantitative, measurable, zenithal and detached vision that is often the dominant one in environmental and economic impact studies and to welcome qualitative research. We must strongly pursue an ethic of encountering and listening, which allows us to grasp life stories, but also the genius loci, the genius faber, the common and emotional "feeling" of human beings who will experience the consequences of intervention on their space. 

A GEOGRAPHICAL READING OF THE CONTEMPORARY CITY

with Marco Bertagni and Anna Preti

For Leaders, Managers, Decision Makers, and their Teams involved in urban planning and transformation

6 hours in total designed to be delivered as a one or two session workshop. Available in English and Italian

Critical urban geography (close to human and emotional geography) has pioneered the structuring of interdisciplinary debates within urban studies, developing the more systematic analysis of the relationships existing between contemporary political processes and the reconfiguration of urban space. Critical urban geography, through the development of 'the right to the city' first, and the one of post-politics recently, has highlighted the need to reflect on the rift between the policies and projects of many European cities investing urban spaces and urban natures. This is characterized by the neoliberal and post-political, post-ideological paradigm, and the grassroots demands for different urban paths. In the context of that segment of critical urban geography that deals with the study of political ecology, a rich literature is developing at the international level. Such literature is focusing on governance mechanisms and practices of use of urban natures studied in the relationship to the social claims that take position against these transformations (as it is in the case of many urban forests), and institutional narrations that support urban regeneration processes. The methodological approach of critical urban geography combined with the use of emotional geography during fieldwork could trigger innovative models for studying these conflicting urban realities. Many European cities are already using neighborhood workshops, Bologna being an example, within which emotional geography and semiotic analysis are used to experiment new modes of participatory processes of citizenships (see for example "Progetto Pilastro 2016 - maps as medium for territorial knowledge"). This use of emotional mapping is interesting when integrated with a genuine political interest to citizens participation in the future of urban natures. The theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches of critical urban geography and the post-political theory are fundamental tools for critically analyzing the limits and the potentials of such political practices of inclusive governance, suggesting, eventually, alternative uses of emotional geography.

For more information about booking this course for your business, either as a stand-alone or as part of a bespoke training package, please contact marco@bertagniconsulting.com

TOOLS FOR STUDENTS A WITH FUTURE IN INTERCULTURAL CAREERS

with Elia Rodriguez Saavedra and Marco Bertagni

For Students and young people looking to work in intercultural teams and other countries as part of their professional growth

8 hours in total designed to be delivered as 4 individual sessions. Available in English, German and Spanish