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Federica Grazia Bartolini, communication strategist, executive advisor and author

Communication strategist · Executive advisor · Author

I do communications.For businessand beyond.

I work with organizations, write about technology, communication and relationships, and create projects that bring people closer together. Different worlds, united by the same belief: technology must serve people, and communication must create understanding, trust and human connection.

Founder of FGB Communications and Quartierino

What moves me

Different worlds. One common thread.

Creating the conditions for people and ideas to express their value—in work, relationships, and the places where we live.

Organizations · FGB Communications

My work with organizations.

I founded FGB Communications, the corporate communications agency through which I work with mid-sized and large companies. It is where my corporate experience becomes strategy, method and delivery.

Equality and leadership

Work and society

I am interested in the conditions that allow people—and women in particular, because I experience many of these dynamics firsthand—to grow, lead and choose without conforming to a single model of leadership or sacrificing entire parts of their lives. I explore them through experience, evidence and humour.

Writing · Novel in progress

I write about relationships: with AI and between people.

After writing a handbook on governing the relationship between organizations, people and AI, I am completing my first novel: a story about human relationships, compromise and what happens when we stop listening to one another.

Entrepreneurial project · Quartierino

Turning proximity into connection.

Quartierino is the entrepreneurial project created to turn geographical proximity into community. It starts in Milan to create meaningful connections between people who live close to one another but often remain alone among others.

Where I come from

The thread that connects it all

I grew up in the suburbs, the first in my family to graduate from university and learn English. While I was at university, I created BestMilano.net, a social network designed to bring together people with the drive to make things happen and build connections of real value. The project ended before it could become the business I had envisioned, but the idea behind it has never left me.

Change has shaped more than my career. It has also run through my personal and family life, marked by times of crisis and profound loss. I learned that you can stay standing through the hardest moments and that respect for people matters most in those moments. That is as true in our personal lives as it is in business. And I learned firsthand what it means to be a woman and a mother, to lead a team and hold a family together in a society that was not designed to support a life built this way.

Today I work alongside business leaders, bring these themes to stages and universities, explore them with humor on social media, write, and nurture a social venture of my own. These pursuits may be different, but they are bound by the same thread: helping people, companies, and ideas communicate, create value, and navigate major transformations without losing what makes them unique.

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Cover of the Italian-language book “Governare l’impatto dell’AI in azienda” by Federica Grazia Bartolini, FrancoAngeli 2026

My handbook

Governare l’impatto dell’AI in azienda

FrancoAngeli, 2026 · Published in Italian

A guide to governing AI without losing sight of strategy, reputation, or people.

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Publications and talks

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On LinkedIn

Corporate communications, leadership, and transformation.

On LinkedIn, I share analysis, case studies, and perspectives on corporate reputation, change, AI, and executive positioning. It is where I draw on first-hand experience to engage with people who lead organizations and teams.

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On Instagram

Conversations, reflections, books, and real life.

On Instagram, I talk about real life, stories that stay with me, books, and travel, but also communication and change. It is my most personal space—where life and work coexist without too many labels.

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