Rivivere Fellowship
is a full immersion executive education and spiritual retreat program for missionaries, entrepreneurs, corporate executives and business professionals. It uses ancient Italian hill-top boroughs as its campus to deliver seminars, workshops, case studies and one-to-one coaching. Editions are limited and calendar defined by the selection and availability of participants from around the world so as to form small, well-balanced classes. Rivivere’s essence is defined by management academia and practices uniquely enriched with sound biblical teachings for the life of those called to lead people and organizations whether private or public, profit or non-profit, starting-up, growing-up, shaking-up or turning around.
Rivivere Values
PRINCIPLED FOR ENLIGHTENMENT
- World-class Teaching: Business and organization management practices skillfully condensed for effective assimilation and application;
- Instrospective Coaching: A setting of quiet and simplicity inspiring personal insights and renovation;
- Biblical wisdom: Executive education streams are enlightened with powerful teachings from the Bible.
Rivivere Classes
WORLD-CLASS EDUCATION
- Duration: The management education and executive retreat program runs full-time for two consecutive weeks, from Monday morning through Friday afternoon of the second week as per program sylabus and schedule below, presentially (on campus).
- Format and language: Seminars, work groups and case studies are grouped in 10 daily streams with 3 modules each delivered in English. Individual coaching sessions are also conducted in French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
- Composition: Participants are selected and reservations made on individual basis. There are no pre-requistes or conditions to apply other than involvement with any business enterprise or non-profit organization at management level.
Rivivere Hospitality
UNIQUE HILL-TOP BOROUGH CAMPUS
- Travel: Participants provide for their travel to Naples, Italy, at which airport (or train station) arrival pick-up and departure drop-off are provided by Rivivere;
- Lodging: Individual apartments are supplied with sheets, towels, private bathroom and kitchenette;
- Meals: Full board with fresh produce mediterranean cuisine is provided from Sunday dinner through Saturday breakfast second week (special dietary requiements need to be requested upon enrolment).
Rivivere management education
Format
Rivivere Fellows gather for morning seminars in the campus’ rustic auditorium and for afternoon biblical leadership studies, management workshops and case-study workgroups in the borough’s inn. One-to-one coaching is individually apportioned in four one-hour slots chosen over afternoons and week-end, held in charming indoor and outdoor spots. Selected businessmen, managers and missionaries share their knowledge and experience in video conference night sessions. Fellows receive a course book with all program content and used to take notes (Rivivere desencourages access to phones, computing devices and the internet in order to best exploit its retreat format). Delivery of Rivivere program is centered on a single multidisciplinary professor, also coach. Applicants are requested to schedule a half-hour Skype video call with him for mutual preliminary assessment.
Rivivere Program (scroll horizontally)
| (subject to updates) | Monday seminar day 1 |
Tuesday seminar day 2 |
Wednesday seminar day 3 |
Thursday seminar day 4 |
Friday seminar day 5 |
Saturday free study time coaching |
Sunday free study time & coaching |
Monday Seminar Day 6 |
Tuesday Seminar Day 7 |
Wednesday Seminar Day 8 |
Thursday Seminar Day 9 |
Friday Seminar Day 10 |
| STREAMS/ MODULES> | STRATEGY, GOVERNANCE & LEADERSHIP |
MARKET & QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS | CORPORATE FINANCE & INVESTMENTS | MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS & ACCOUNTING | ORGANIZATION, PROCESS & IT ARQUITECTURE | coaching hour 2 (one slot of choice/available) | coaching hour 3 (one slot of choice/available) | MARKET-DRIVEN OPERATIONS & INNOVATIONS | ORGANIZATION & CAPABILITIES MANAGEMENT | BUSINESS PLANNING & PROGRAM MANAGEMENT | COMMERCIAL DRIVE & ENTREPRENEURSHIP | GLOBAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & NEGOTIATIONS |
| 06:30-07:00 | morning prayer & worship | |||||||||||
| 07:30-08:30 | breakfast | |||||||||||
| 08:30-10:30 | business strategy and risk management | valuation | financial management |
accounting for management | process and organization design |
Slot 1 | Slot 1 | branding and innovation |
organizational behaviour | business planning |
sales-driven entrepreneurship | international business development |
| Slot 2 | Slot 2 | |||||||||||
| 10:30-11:00 | coffee break | |||||||||||
| 11:00-13:00 | enterprise governance and leadership | market approach & research |
investment management |
managerial economics |
information & communication technology | Slot 3 | Slot 3 | operations management | personnel & capabilites management | program and project management |
managing market and social values | multicultural negotiations |
| Slot 4 | Slot 4 | |||||||||||
| 13:00-14:30 | lunch | |||||||||||
| 14:30-16:30 | biblical foundations for leadership | biblical perspectives on markets & valuation | biblical wealth & financial management | economics and accounting of God |
body of Christ and our organizations | Slot 5 | Slot 5 | transformation for revival | biblical foundations for managing people | planning under the heavens | gospel-driven entrepreneurship | biblical foundations for development |
| Slot 6 | Slot 6 | |||||||||||
| 16:30-17:00 | tea break | |||||||||||
| 17:00-19:00 | group workshop & case study / individual coaching hour 1 (in one of slot 7, 8 or 9 of choice) |
Slot 7 | Slot 7 | group workshop & case study / individual coaching hour 4 (in one of slot 7, 8 or 9 of choice) |
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| Slot 8 | Slot 8 | |||||||||||
| 19:00-20:30 | dinner | |||||||||||
| 20:30-22:00 | evening speakers / individual coaching hour 1 (in one of slot 7, 8 or 9 of choice) |
Slot 9 | Slot 9 | evening speakers / individual coaching hour 4 (in one of slot 7, 8 or 9 of choice) |
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| 22:00-22:30 | night prayer & worship | |||||||||||
Rivivere Syllabus
Rivivere provides a comprehensive overview of the leading themes in all areas of general management and equips with key techniques and tools to successfully perform in them as described below. Individual coaching sessions convey further insights significant to the profile, context and areas of interest of highest relevance and significance to each Rivivere Fellow pointing guidance and materials for in-depth learning during group work and self-study times on campus and for on-going self-development. There are no academic or curricular pre-requisites for enrollment other than Rivivere commendation for application and approval of the later on case-by-case basis at Rivivere's discretionary analysis which is communicated to the applicant. Courses are ministered to an audience with appreciated breadth or depth of business and/or personal life experience regardless of education degrees, career seniority, function or industry experience.
Strategy, Governance & Leadership (SG, day 1)
Business Strategy and Risk Management (BSR)
Identify values, mission and vision. Use tools to devise perspectives and means for the enterprise journey. Recognize hazards and alternatives to manage them. Communicate purpose and values to stakeholders.
Enterprise Governance and Leadership (EGL)
Formulate ownership structure and how it oversees management. Differentiate roles associated to tenure, governance and management and instill appropriate organizational culture and leadership style.
Biblical Foundations for Leadership (BFL)
Grasp the Bible storyline while leading people and organizations. Distinguish biblical leaders, understand how their character was shaped. Realize which and how accomplishments were achieved through them.
Market & Quantitative Analysis (MQ, day 2)
Valuation (VAL)
Valuate companies, projects partnerships based on cash flow projections and comparable public company and acquisition analysis approaches and compare stakeholders’ points of views.
Market Approach & Research (MAR)
Select relevant quantitative analysis methods. Reflect on market macro dynamics and how segmentation and targeting can differentiate positioning performance. Know tools and services used for this purpose.
Biblical Perspectives on Markets and Valuation (BMV)
Master marketplace values and needs and know how to approach them accordingly. Differentiate segmentation and targeting processes regarding ultimate customer beliefs and value.
Corporate Finance & Investments (CF, day 3)
Financial Management (FIN)
Select funding options and monitor use of proceeds. Acquire ability to read and act upon key elements of financial statements and of the value tree to optimize profitability and liquidity.
Investment Management (INV)
Articulate cash flow and debt leverage to optimize returns on investments gauging payback and hurdle rates. Understand the capital asset pricing model, acknowledge market imperfections and manage investor relations.
Biblical Wealth and Financial Management (BWF)
Understand what the Bible says about money and how to benefit your business and life with healthy financial administration. Use biblical principles of wealth creation vis-à-vis spiritual richness.
Managerial Economics & Accounting (ME, day 4)
Accounting for Management (AFM)
Read and improve the enterprise cost structure understanding cost components and cost accounting methods. Exploit the Economic Profit Tree and articulate budgets to monitor performance against objectives.
Managerial Economics (MEC)
Discern dynamics of demand, supply and pricing. Exploit consumer surplus, factors affecting supply and basic game theory. Gain awareness of market imperfectness and how to preempt it. Leverage effects of network industries and of the sharing economy.
Economics and Accounting of God (EAG)
Portray the greater order of Economics in the Bible which sees supply extrapolating aggregate demand. See how God’s Economics fulfills and how grace and faith are at the base of God’s Accounting above human capital or good works.
Organization, Process & IT Architecture (OA, day 5)
Process and Organization Design (POD)
Map interdependent factors and strategic typologies to structure the organization. Overview both core and support business processes to optimize organization effectiveness and efficiency using key performance indicators.
Information & Communication Technology (ICT)
View ICT through the lens of application, data and technical architectures back-to-back with the business architecture. Recognize ICT processes and key success factors of proficient information systems and ICT management.
Body of Christ and Organizations (BCO)
Realize in the Bible how the Church was constituted and globalized, and in what way its concepts and reality of head, body and members can empower organizational mission.
Market-driven Operations and Innovations (MO, day 6)
Branding and Innovation (BIN)
Establish Marketing efforts to align expectations with operations. Apply strategies to fulfill the brand promise. Exploit all facets of innovation leveraging customer value, price sensitivity and information products.
Operations Management (OPM)
Oversee quality, facilities, procurement, inventory, logistics, distribution channels, and enterprise resource planning systems according to market context. Consider supply chain modelling approaches.
Innovation for Revival (IFR)
Review approach to work and business. Revive for a new record and a new heart. Redefine work and innovate by looking at the need of others.
Organization & Capabilities Management (OC, day 7)
Organizational Behavior (OBE)
Treat people’s hierarchy of needs. Identify deviations from rationality and take corrective actions. Stimulate group performance according to organizational phase and team roles. Leverage networks.
Personnel and Capabilities Management (PCM)
Motivate employees, manage change, performance and careers. Depict jobs, skills and tools. Administrate labor relations.
Biblical Foundations for Managing People (BMP)
Realize how natural talents and spiritual gifts are imparted in the people in your organization and how to equip to transform lives and the organization itself. See to evangelization and discipleship through king, prophet and priest roles.
Business Planning & Programs Management (BP, day 8)
Business Planning (BPL)
Confirm the business model according to business strategy and business case. Explain why, what, how, who, when, budget and cash flow aggregating processes, functions, stakeholders and capabilities.
Program and Project Management (PPM)
Scope initiatives. Break-down into projects, work units and deliverables. Assign human and capital resources. Manage time and money, operational issues, impacts and risks. Report, re-scope, re-schedule and re-assign.
Planning Under the Heavens (PUH)
Sense work and the use of time with a renewed mind submitted to the will of God and to the unfathomed order and dimensions of His creation and plan. Understand the biblical theology of work.
Commercial Drive & Entrepreneurship (CE, day 9)
Sales-driven entrepreneurship (SDE)
Formulate the value proposition to client-audiences. Match sales process to adoption cycle. Exploit pipeline, channels, communication and relationship management to promote products, services and enterprise itself.
Managing Market and Social Values (MSV)
Value market perceptions, trends and needs regarding customers, competitors, collaborators, company and context. Formulate positioning, placement, promotion and pricing strategies. Add value with social entrepreneurship.
Gospel-driven Entrepreneurship (GDE)
Apply the Business as Mission model with the biblical kinghood-prophethood-priesthood three-pronged approach to successfully venture at the heart of societies, communities and individuals.
Global Business Development &Negotiations (GB, day 10)
International Business Development (IBD)
Frame economic development concepts, global economy dynamics and international finance fundamentals relevant to the life cycle of your firm and industry. Focus issues on culture, politics, technology and competition.
Multicultural Negotiations (MNE)
Outstrip negotiation theories, techniques, analytical and interpersonal skills. Structure negotiations according to culture and circumstance. Understand basic game theory.
Biblical Foundations for Development (BFD)
Raise funds and reach global markets to carry out Business as Mission doing God's business in God's way to never miss funding targets.
Group Workshop and case study
At the end of each day track, Rivivere Fellows team-up to engage in demanding discussions while approaching activities (workshop) and cases (case study) dealing with the respective subject matter applied to real-case situations they chose from and following Rivivere’s blueprint integrating management academia, business practice and Biblical wisdom.
Individual coaching
Individually, privately and confidentially, Rivivere Fellows work with the coach in clarifying personal and professional approaches to their state of affairs, helping to fulfill their journey with meaning and purpose. The coach works using tact, respect and expertise with fellows of all nationalities, cultures, races, gender, sexual orientation and creeds, basing himself on Bible teachings.
Morning and Evening Prayer and Worship
All Rivivere Fellows are welcome to this typically Christian habit. Not mandatory for those standing for other creeds or habits.
Evening Speakers
In some evevnings, elected missionaries, entrepreneurs, senior managers, businessmen, professionals -at least three per edition- give a presentation and share insights in thought-provocative, mind-opening and inspiring ways.
Language
All plenary sessions are delivered in the English language. Individual coaching can be seamlessly conducted also in Italian and Portuguese. The coach also speaks reasonably good French and Spanish for fellows more comfortable in these languages.
Rivivere Faculty
International corporate development professional born 1964, raised with English schooling in South America hence onto Electronics professional high school and Mechanical-Aeronautical Engineering, BSc class of 1986.
I initiated my full-time work-life in business process consulting with one of the traditional "Big" consultancies, first in South America and in its management consulting training center in North America, then with the oil industry in the Middle East before transferring to Europe in 1989 where I delivered enterprise systems and managed IT projects throughout European affiliates of a multinational client.
My experience as corporate executive began in 1993 as Marketing Director for a European software house, helping to turn it around by repositioning it into the banking market and then as Administration Officer hired by one of its bank clients. I took Edinburgh's Business School's MBA program and was rehired by my former "Big" consultancy employer to manage projects, client accounts and bids first expatriated to South America, then to the Middle East here also as pan-regional HR Lead. In 2003 the gulf war impaired expansion plans in the region hence I took off for a sabbatical in London Business School's Sloan Fellowship program, acquiring a Master of Science in Management specializing myself in Turnaround Management and Social Entrepreneurship.
I moved back to South America as an associate in an interim management, consulting, and business services firm to engage as turnaround CEO in clients in the consumer products, IT software and IT hardware industries. As from 2008, as Partner in that same firm, I oversee management consulting, corporate restructuring and business services professionals allocated in over twenty industries, developing clients' businesses and organizations, improving their corporate governance, strategy, market presence, products and services delivery. From 2009 through 2012 I served as Brazil country president and in the Board of Trustees for a global association of corporate restructuring professionals.
My wife and I moved to Italy in 2014, empty-nesters happy to see their daughter and son through college - a Journalist and an Economist from City University London and University of California Berkeley respectively. I recently served as CEO for a company group client in Africa. As non-executive director sitting on Management Boards for clients’ jobs with my consultancy firm, I have been able to dedicate more time to social enterprises and to teaching, with a transformed heart committed to testify Christian values, teaching and preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Rivivere executive retreat
Campus
Rivivere disposes of a choice of ancient-burough campuses, each with classrooms and lodgings used according to program edition. They all lie within a two-hour drive from either Naples Capodichino airport (NAP) or train station from both of which arrival locations meet & greet pick-up (and departure drop-off) are provided by Rivivere drivers.
Rivivere campuses are located in the Campania region in Italy. They bestow peace and serenity for Rivivere Fellows who detach temsleves for two weeks from their everyday life, persons and activities at work, at home, and in social environments.
Fresh air, food and knowledge for reinvigorating enlightenment.
Rivivere Fellowship nourishes the body, mind and soul. Its healthy terroir and retreat format provide unparalleled effectiveness to assimilate and sharpen business management skills.
Rivivere strives for enlightenment with bold approach but humble submission to the truth of the Gospel in the Bible. Rivivere Fellows may find powerful rebirth, growth or restructuring of their person, career and business lives, regardless of their extraction, background or creeds.
Highly challenged, even anguished and stressed practitioners needing all-encompassing executive education, unable to attend lengthy master programs in business management, find no place better than Rivivere to restore and re-equip themselves.
Lodgings
All about Rivivere evokes monastic simplicity. Individual apartments have private bathroom, kitchen; A/C, heaters; linings, soap, shampoo, hair dryer.
Restaurant & bar
The borough’s restaurant serves continental breakfast, primo-secondo-dolce Italian dishes for lunch and dinner using local produce. The borough’s bar serves coffee, tea and fresh snacks during breaks.
Application
Way forward
Applications, fully completed according to instructions in the form below, will be screened and approved candidates will receive Application Confirmation, with specific dates, no later than two months prior to the first day of the best-suited program edition based on candidate availability expressed on application and based on class mix and size of no less than 3 no more than 7 participants.
Upon enrollment confirmation, the non-reimbursable program fee is paid in full until 30 days before program start date. The program fee is three thousand five hundred euros and includes tuition and course materials; full board from dinner Sunday preceding the first day of program through breakfast on Saturday after the last day thus including: airport pick-up and drop-off (at Naples airport or train station); lodging, aliments and drinks for all meals, coffee and tea breaks. Participants provide for themselves travel arrangements to Naples Capodichino airport directly with the airline or ticketing agent. Participants coming from countries requiring visa (a brief-sojourn or travel type "C" visa for Italy) will receive Rivivere Visa sponsorship letter with which they present themselves at the Italian embassy in their countries.
Rivivere does not require payment of application fee.
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