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FINO · Future Is Now

The Future of Work Is Human

Most teams don't have a strategy problem. They have a what-happens-when-pressure-hits problem. We work on that from the inside out.

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The Core Idea

Change at Work Starts Inside People

People learn the frameworks. They know how to give feedback, run the meeting, handle the hard conversation. Then the pressure comes and they shut down, or push back too hard, or go quiet and agree to something they will resent by Thursday.

We teach people to catch what is running them in that moment and get back to a clear place before they speak. The method is Internal Family Systems, parts work, brought into the room where the work happens.

People use it in Tuesday's meeting. It holds when the meeting goes badly.

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Technology is moving faster than our nervous systems. The people who know how their own system works are the ones who will keep up.
Anna and Dario, Co-Founders, FINO
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Why This Matters Now

Il Futuro È Ora

Work changed more in the last three years than in the ten before them. A team ships in an afternoon what used to take a week, and the tools get faster every quarter.

The people doing that work are running on empty. They are tired, they are further from each other than they were, and most of them have stopped saying so out loud.

You can rebuild the process as many times as you want. People carry the same thing into the next meeting that they carried into the last one.

So we work from the inside out. When someone can reach their own calm, their own clarity, their own courage, they can build. People practice those, and they hold when the quarter goes badly.

FINO means Il Futuro È Ora. The Future Is Now. This does not wait for the next strategy cycle, the next reorg, or the next round of hiring. The people who can do it are already on the payroll.


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Who We Are

The People Behind FINO

Anna Milaeva

Anna Milaeva

Co-Founder

  • IFS Level 3 Practitioner
  • Certified Deep Transformational Coach
  • 10+ years operations & organizational leadership
  • Author of Already In A Meeting
Dario Giuffrida

Dario Giuffrida

Co-Founder

  • Organizational Psychologist
  • IFS Practitioner
  • 20+ years working with groups and communities
Already In A Meeting, a novel by Anna Milaeva

The Novel

Every Team Is Already in a Meeting

Anna wrote a novel about it. Five colleagues, one company in trouble, and the second meeting that runs inside each person while the first one happens.

Everything we work on shows up in it. What stays unsaid in a room, and what it costs the team by the end of the quarter. Funny on the surface. Parts work underneath.

Paperback and Kindle.

Questions

Frequently Asked

A model of how a mind is organized. Everyone has parts: the one that pushes hard, the one that goes quiet in conflict, the one that answers email at midnight. IFS teaches people to work with those parts instead of being run by them. Richard Schwartz developed it in the 1980s and it has been practiced for forty years.

People learn to catch what is happening in them during a hard moment at work, and to speak from a clear place. It happens in ordinary settings. A weekly session, a team meeting, a decision that has been stuck for a month.

No. We do professional development. Nobody is asked to disclose personal history to their colleagues. People learn a model they can use in a meeting, and what they do with it outside work stays theirs.

Both, and most of our work is with teams. A team that can name what happens to it under pressure gets through the conversations that used to stall.

Because the tools land on people. A workflow nobody trusts goes unused, and a rollout that frightens people fails quietly. We work with the people and build the system, with the same team, in the same engagement.

Founders, leadership teams, law firms, healthcare teams, and independent practitioners. We work online worldwide and in person across the United States and Europe, in English, Spanish, Russian, Italian, and Portuguese.

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