Manuela Nicolosi is a former international football referee and executive, keynote speaker, author and performance expert, selected as LinkedIn Top Voice and as one of Fortune Italy’s 50 Most Powerful Women.
As FIFA referee, she has broken barriers as part of the first ever female trio to officiate a UEFA Men’s final, the 2019 Super Cup Liverpool v Chelsea.
She is the first and only Italian woman to have been appointed for the FIFA Women’s World Cup Final and the Ligue 1, with a career of more than 120 professional and international matches. She has also been selected for 2 Olympics (Rio and Tokyo), 3 World Cups (Canada, France, Australia) and 2 EUROs (Netherlands and England).
She’s got 2 degrees in Business administration and 2 Master degrees in Finance and Biohacking, speaks fluently 4 languages, and has worked as Finance Project Director in multinational corporations such as PwC and Stanley Black&Decker for more than 15 years.
She is a certified coach and NLP trainer and has founded WinSpire – Inspire to Win, which mission is to empower leaders to master decision-making, leadership, and peak performance.
She is the author of “It’s my decision – From the Dream to the Super Cup: The Courage to Break the Rules” (ROI Edizioni), where she shares her journey, the challenges, and the lessons learned as a woman in a world traditionally seen as male-dominated — with the goal of inspiring readers to pursue their dreams, even when it seems impossible or no one has done it before.
She is a motivational and inspiring speaker since 2022, the first female referee on TV commenting the Serie A matches on Dazn and she coaches executives to reach their
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