The story about this name, "Intellectual Stripper," goes back to a night with family members in the South of Italy, where I come from.

It was Christmas 2019, a few glasses of wine, maybe more, and brainstorming in a silly way about lucrative jobs of the future. Analyzing the market of the online professions related to sex, a not even 18-year-old girl suggested:

"The market is overloaded, but none has thought about stripping while giving a book review or intellectual content with a naked woman on screen."

And then she added, "I will be an INTELLECTUAL STRIPPER!"

I thought it was brilliant!

I was a bit tipsy but still capable of type, so I did. I started searching online to see if the domain was taken. If a domain doesn't exist, none thought about it. And I bought it :-)

The idea was brilliant, the name intriguing, but who is the person behind that original name?

I am a former Italian lawyer lent to the business world to give voice to these two souls I have: law and business. I am organized and detail-oriented but also creative and strategic. An American academic environment has borrowed me to develop professionals in their careers by providing mentoring and training. On what? Assertive Communication, Networking, Development, Conflict resolution, Change management... Change in general.

I help people and organizations unlearn and learn again from a different angle.

The first person I helped, and continue to is myself. I approach changes in life with an open mind. I embrace challenges flirting with the expected outcome. I am often told that I am not patient, but I spent last 14 years to build an international presence, a wide global network based on trust, and finally an entry into the american business world that it where I wanted to end my career. My mom says that everybody should go through 3 different professions in life. I have done and learned a lot of different topics, but I can number my first 2 stages as 1. solo-lawyer; 2. entrepreneur; 3. the future. That to me means: employed in the United States, starting a new chapter.

It is a sexy intellectual stripping process the process of change.Yeah, it can be sexy. It is a sexy evolution. When you put in a box your prejudices, biases, and open your mind to absorb something new or just presented differently, you are becoming an intellectual stripper.

I wrote a book about it.

Welcome to the world of intellectual strippers!