Marco Stefanini – CEO & Founder of Stefanini – Innovation ecosystem and servant leadership by CIONET

What is Stefanini’s Innovation ecosystem and how does it relate to company’s success? How do you combine true entrepreneurship with servant leadership? What is the secret ingredient of talent retention at Stefanini?

In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode Marco Stefanini, the CEO and founder of Stefanini Group, talks with Hendrik Deckers about growing as a leader and contributing to a better, more inclusive world. Marco explains the importance of diversifying the business and value of partnerships.

As a leader, Marco is a pure example of servant leadership and hard work. In thirty years, along with his family, he built from scratch a company that’s offering a hybrid model of services combining the traditional IT with the latest digital solutions in over forty countries.

Table of contents:

01:04 | Introduction and Marco Stefanini’s background

01:46 | About Stefanini

04:43 | Cyber Smart Defence: digital company specializing in penetration tests

05:48 | Innovation ecosystem

08:21 | The story of growth

10:45 | The biggest challenge & opportunity

11:56 | Stefanini Institute

14:34 | Global or Brazilian?

18:02 | Talent retention: the secret ingredient

19:43 | Hard work culture

22:42 | Self-funded, more than a billion USD worth company

24:28 | Marco’s role as CEO

26:21 | Selecting the best people

29:09 | The early beginnings

34:33 | Marco’s hobbies & passions

39:15 | Family background

42:20 | The worst & best thing that has ever happened to Marco

48:49 | Marco’s personal mantra

49:54 | Marco’s core values

51:26 | Marco’s mentors

54:10 | Quote of the week

56:32 | Growing as a leader

01:02:08 | Advice for people starting out