Values Turning into Action: Leadership, Trust, and New Generations

The day at The Vision Stage spotlighted a theme that cuts across companies, organizations, and professional communities: leadership is not what is declared, but what is practiced. A strong common thread emerged in two sessions that placed people, responsibility, and shared culture at the center, showing how credibility is built through consistency between words and actions.

With the “Walk the Talk: a journey that becomes vision” session presented by Simone Lijoi, the focus was on the need to turn values and identity into daily choices, inside and outside the company. This approach was strongly supported by MIDO and ANFAO President Lorraine Berton and reinforced by the contribution of Sabrina Paulon, ANFAO Vice President, who described the path developed in 2025 with member companies, in collaboration with Tack TMI, aimed at aligning vision and action.

Giving substance to these concepts, the dialogue between Daniele Cassioli and Pasquale Gravina brought to the stage two different paths united by the same idea: values are not a manifesto, but a concrete guide through change.

The same message returned even more powerfully in the session “Building Trust, Generating the Future”, featuring Ferdinando “Fefè” De Giorgi, Head Coach of the Italian Men’s National Volleyball Team, in conversation with Simone Lijoi. De Giorgi shared a lived leadership experience: language as an educational tool, consistency as the foundation of authority, and the micro-behaviors that shape the daily climate and cohesion of a team.

At the center was also the relationship with new generations: not a “protective” management style, but a choice of trust and accountability. Because talent grows where there is space, recognition, and clear goals. A clear message, valid in sport as in organizations: trust is not declared, it is built and when it becomes culture, it generates the future.