Stefania Lucchetti is the founder and Managing Director of RTP Advisory.

Stefania’s mixed portfolio as a lawyer, best-selling author, speaker and entrepreneur is the epitome of her eclectic, energetic personality which takes pleasure in relentless learning and the pursuit of all round excellence and balance.

She practiced corporate law for 13 years in Europe and Asia.  She has extensive experience in commercial and TMT work, corporate governance, private equity M&A gained in tier 1 law firms (Allen & Overy, Mallesons Stephen Jaques) and inhouse departments of corporations in both the high tech and the financial industry (Vodafone, Newscorp, Accenture, Credit-Suisse).

She assisted internet pioneers such as Altavista, Yahoo! and Expedia in the early days of their foray into Europe and helped set up and establish over 30 start ups.

Stefania holds Juris Doctorate and is qualified to practice law in 3 jurisdictions: Italy, England and Wales and Hong Kong.  She is also an accredited mediator with the Hong Kong International Arbitration Center.

Stefania Lucchetti’s books (The Principle of Relevance, Ideas in Reality, Meditation for Busy Minds)  have been tagged as “the message of the times” and regularly defined as “life changing” by readers.   She is regularly invited to speak for Fortune 500 companies and teaches courses on leadership and entrepreneurship at the HK University of Science and Technology Business School in Hong Kong.  She is also the founder the Women Leadership Project (www.womenleadershipproject.com ): a venture dedicated to cultivating women’s leadership.  Stefania is also Education Chair of Women in Finance Asia (WiFA) and is involved in several projects aimed at promoting gender equality and women’s involvement and growth.

Stefania’s key specialties are negotiations and deal structuring.  She works her magic by using her uncanny intellectual ability to simplify and give structure to seemingly complex situations, and understand a party’s key concerns and needs.

She has traveled extensively around the world throughout her life both as an adult and as a child with her family and now lives in Hong Kong with her husband and baby boy. She is enthusiastic and passionate, blending in the intuition and insight of her life experience with the knowledge and logical thinking developed in the corporate world.

Stefania is well known and admired for being a master organizer of her time and a relentless adventurer of the mind. Other than managing her career and family, she cultivates a passion for dance (she has been a semi-professional dancer and modern dance teacher), she has been practicing meditation and yoga for several years, she loves to travel and learn. Since she was a child, she has had a personal policy of learning 3 new skills every year, whether physical or intellectual. Stefania is an avid reader of books on any topic that interests her.

Stefania’s philosophy

I believe that freedom is a gift we cannot afford to lose to our own laziness, fear of changing the status quo and habit of living in a reactionary manner, responding to events rather than creating our own life as events unfold.   Too often people are so used to being told what they should do with every minute of their time – by their parents and teachers when they are young, by their supervisors at work when they join the workforce – that they stop owning their freedom.   Although they feel unsatisfied and unhappy, don’t know what to do with that freedom, and with the responsibility that comes from it.  Therefore they offer their time up to anyone and anything who will tell them what to do with it.  And in the process they lose ownership not only of their time but also of their mental bandwidth: they ability to think, be creative, see perspectives, evaluate options and choose their future.