About Us
Zella International ry is a non-profit organization aiming to enhance people’s human flourishing and well-being, with a particular focus on young individuals. We achieve this by offering specialized leadership services created by experts in the field. Our main objective is to preserve and promote human skills that enable transformative experiences through leadership and management practices. Our efforts are focused on spreading knowledge, leadership wisdom and management expertise to tackle the global challenges of today and to transform them into opportunities for the future and the benefit of society
Mission
To educate and train international awareness-based leadership conceived as an evolutionary, synergistic, and transformative experiential journey of the individual and collectiveness.
Leadership knowledge, experience, and service are developed through Zella’s scientific tools designed to help people, apprentice leaders, and established leaders, keening to develop a holistic
vision of their personal and professional life.
Vision
Zella co-creates Human Transformative Leadership Experiences with individuals and organizations willing to engineer their personal/professional Leadership Evolution.
Purpose
To co-create eco-systemic societies and environments, where building, growing, and retaining the development and dissemination of human leadership capacities and attitudes, meant to foster the knowledge, the wisdom of leadership, and the management of the global challenges of the present and transform them into emerging future possibilities.
Zella International was founded by Marcella Zoccoli on the 11th of January 2022 (co-founders Kirill Anton and Chiara Gentile) and consists of Zella Specialists bringing their expertise and competencies from various backgrounds. Just like the diverse people who make it, Zella shines in many different names of its own: a community of practice, a network of professionals, the destination for educational training and coaching, home of transformative leadership, and a world-traversing spiritual turtle. In its very essence and practical form Zella’s Educational & Edutaining Project, rooted on a ground of more than 30 years of experience in international business offers a new perspective on international education conceived as an evolutionary path.
Started in 2016 and developed during seven years of academic research-based work in the Leadership & Global Competence discipline applied at the School of Business at JAMK University of Applied Sciences in Jyväskylä, Finland and further expanded through the doctoral research at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki – supervisor Prof. Krista Lagus.
Zella’s course into the world is charted by Marcella Zoccoli, a Senior Lecturer & Teacher at JAMK University of Applied Sciences in the area of Leadership and Global Competence, where she has her own R&D experiential learning laboratory (teaching and training) at JAMK School of Business and ProCESS Project (European Erasmus+ Project where she works as SESS Trainer).
Most of Zella’s Specialists joining Marcella have been collaborating with her since the beginning as guest speakers or facilitators and some of her courses have been the setting of her PhD research along with EspressoSkillsLAB© activities. Our educational approach, methods, and pedagogical tools are based on the practices of awareness that allow us to meet the demands of the time while maintaining space for evolutionary development.
Embrace the many ways applied leadership knowledge can shape the lives around you and embark on the journey to your true potential destination Mondo. You will learn how to become a purpose-driven leader ready to engage in collaborative endeavors with social actors. Zella will support you on this journey by delivering actionable and empowering learning experiences.
Zella invites you to become a part of transformative global development. Welcome onboard the Zella!