Claudio Guffanti, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion | ICF Coach Most business leaders spend their time and resources trying to identify ways to sustain their business growth and have a global presence. To that end, they spend heavily on various tools and technologies in a desperate attempt to retrain their employees and develop fresh ideas and perspectives that could solve the existing and evolving pain points. However, most businesses are missing a key point. The idea should be to foster diversity and inclusion (D&I) through which companies can embrace talented individuals from diverse regional and cultural backgrounds and orientations to tap their unique ideas and fuel business prospects. A visionary leader passionate about exploring the power of human connect, Claudio Guffanti realized that D&I can be company’s unique differentiating factor in staying ahead of the market competition while creating a social impact. Realizing that most companies in Italy were in darkness about D&I’s potential in improving business results through a diversified workforce, Guffanti took upon himself to change the status quo. This burning desire led him to lay the cornerstone of Unlimited Views. Through Unlimited Views, Guffanti helps companies benefit from fresh perspectives, out-ofthe- box thinking, and courageous decision-making.
As opposed to the traditional HR services companies, Unlimited Views ensures that its clients understand the intrinsic commercial value hidden in D&I and that they have the skills to lead a unified workforce to smoothen the change curve and adapt to market changes quickly. The company achieves this through training. Guffanti, a diversity manager and coach, can train different groups of people to work on various aspects of a project, as per their business needs, and collect the varying points of view to enrich their decision-making for successful project outcomes.
Led by Guffanti, Unlimited Views assists clients from different industries to grow their business through the implementation of D&I strategies. These strategies include the promotion of internal diversity for an inclusive working environment through employee training and involvement. While training helps a business be aware of D&I’s ins and outs, coaching aids them in developing an action plan and tracking its progress.
Based on these efforts, businesses can easily build strategies, identify the resources to be deployed for a particular project, and develop new skills among their employees accordingly.
Unlimited Views ensures that its clients understand the intrinsic commercial value hidden in D&I and that they have the skills to lead a unified workforce to smoothen the change curve
“As a coach, I focus on people development at different levels, ranging from teams and their leaders as well as project groups, and personal coaching for individual development,” mentions Guffanti, founder of Unlimited Views. “Through our coaching, companies can reduce their employees’ unconscious biases as they can deeply understand inclusion in spite of belonging to varying backgrounds. Coaching adds value to the clients’ business goals as there is an equal division of power among all the employees to put forward their viewpoints, which leads to a win-win situation.” Besides, the company aids clients in developing mid-term and long-term strategies for D&I. For instance, Unlimited Views helped a client start their business processes from scratch by deploying a D&I council to deal with projects, define goals, and plan strategies according to the priorities. In another instance, the company catered to a client that had a wrong understanding of people with disability. “We assisted them to hire candidates with disabilities who helped the team leaders and managers develop required skills to manage any situation,” highlights Guffanti.
“Although most visionary companies in Europe are already working on D&I, they are still unaware of the competitive leverage that D&I can deliver to achieve fruitful business results. So, Europe would be the activity center for Unlimited Views in the near future,” concludes Guffanti. “We want to continue helping clients to understand D&I and accordingly prepare them to invest in the future and bring home different talents to cultivate inclusion and a sense of belonging.”
