Whether it is about inventing something new outside in the world or developing something new inside an individual, Chiara Chidelli believes that any creation of novelty is the result of an intense social process.

In her view, the new always needs friends.

She developed this belief while developing her practice: building collaborative experiences for individuals, teams and organizations to learn together, create together, evolve together.

Chiara’s role tends to shift from co-designer, to process facilitator, to producer, to team manager, to documenter. Working closely with a front-of-the-room facilitator and a facilitation/teaching team, she and her team build a space that allows for the emergence of new ways of doing, thinking, being — both at the individual and collective levels.

Her efforts are about creating environments that hold individuals and groups while they work together, moving through a non-linear process that invites them to dig deep into the nature of the challenges they face; play with different concepts and frameworks; learn to have more authentic conversations; imagine and see possibilities; develop new and better approaches.

She has always been curious about the social dynamics and emotional states that animate the collective and individual efforts of making progress on an issue that matters, bringing something new to life, developing into a more evolved version of oneself. And so, she loves her work: because it allows her to witness people while they find the courage to seek out their inner strengths, explore them, experiment with them…and then try to use them to shift something within themselves and in their world.

Since 2006, her practice has grown and evolved alongside that of Architects of Group Genius, a small consulting firm that operates globally within the blurred boundaries of leadership-strategy-collaboration-learning-change-innovation.