“My dad was an entrepreneur, and wanted me to work in his company, but I never did. I’ve always been a free-lance, so I’ve never worked as an employee. Having never experienced this, I am interested in what it means to work in a company, but also what it takes to be a ‘good’ leader. And, above all, what happens to people’s emotions and needs in the corporate world”. Cristina Nuñez

Cristina Nuñez held SPEX workshops in companies such as Saatchi & Saatchi (Milan), Watson Wyatt (Milan), Danone (Milan), Italfondiario (Rome and Milan), Banca del Mezzogiorno (Matera), Marketing Forum (Milan), Mida (Milan), Future Concept Lab (Milan), Muksumanki (Turku), Telefonica (Barcelona) and SDA Bocconi School of Management. She also held individual SPEX sessions with executives in collaboration with executive counsellors Serenella Sala (Milan) and Olga Marsó Roura (Barcelona).

These experiences have brought her to build a special project for the corporate world: Portrait Insights. The video above is about a Portrait Insights workshop and event that she held for 80 leaders of Telefonica in Barcelona, Spain.

Portrait Insights is a flexible corporate workshop that can be tailored to the company’s needs. It consists in the production of portraits of participants, individual sessions on the multiple and ever-changing perceptions of the images and group work sessions where participants can share their images and listen to others’ perceptions of these images. We know that perception is 50% subjective and that it changes all the time. The two sides of the human face are governed by the opposite brain hemispheres, and each side often expresses very different things, so we never use photographs to affirm anything about the person. By exploring the multiple and ever-changing perceptions we flexibilize our perceptions, accept vulnerabilities as part of a whole, and discover our and others’ strengths and potential. 

The objectives and expected results are:

  • broadening of self-perception and discovery of potential
  • broadening of perception of others and discovery of the relationship’s potential
  • stimulation of the creative process, which provides empowerment and self-efficacy
  • transformation of vulnerabilities into strengths

Please see Cristina Nuñez’s PhD Thesis on SPEX on her Academia profile.

Portrait Insight can be:

  • Introductory: presentation and discussion (2 hours), individual portrait and perception sessions (30 min each) and group work (2 hours).
  • Creative: the introductory, plus 2 more 2h group sessions so that participants will produce self-portraits and other images with their own Smartphones or cameras, following different exercises.
  • Complete: the introductory, plus 6 more 2h group sessions so that participants will produce self-portraits and other images with their own Smartphones or cameras, following different exercises, divided in three parts: ME, ME AND THE OTHER, ME AND THE WORLD. Individual autobiographical projects can be produced at the end of the workshop.

 

Please contact us and ask for a tailored proposal for your company or for yourself as a leader.