The client
Who Huawei Italia is, the Italian subsidiary of Huawei Technologies with offices in Milan and Rome
Huawei Italia is the Italian subsidiary of Huawei Technologies, a Chinese company founded in 1987 in Shenzhen by Ren Zhengfei and one of the world’s main developers, manufacturers and sellers of ICT products and solutions. The group is wholly owned by its employees and operates through the Carrier, Enterprise, Consumer and Digital Power divisions. This story is about Huawei Italia and not about the Huawei Digital Power division, which has a separate Wibo story.
Huawei has operated in Italy since 2004 with two main offices, in Milan and Rome, plus offices in other cities, for a local headcount estimated at between 600 and 750 people depending on the period. The Italian structure includes Research and Development centres and Innovation Centres, among them the global centre for Microwave technologies in Milan. Huawei Italia already invests heavily in training, with an e-learning platform of more than 20,000 courses and initiatives delivered at European headquarters level too.
Donatella Criscuolo, HR at Huawei Italia, spoke about the programme with Wibo.
The challenge
Why Huawei Italia, with more than 20,000 e-learning courses, wanted training built for its Italian managers
After the pilot with Wibo, Huawei Italia saw that its training lacked an offer built for its Italian managers. Despite an e-learning platform of more than 20,000 courses and many activities run locally and at headquarters level, it had no offer truly localised to the needs of its Italian management population.
The relationship between Huawei Italia and Wibo began in 2024 with a cross-company pilot for a small group of six managers, designed to test the method before a larger commitment. Huawei Italia reviewed the results and gathered participants’ feedback during 2025. The collaboration launched in 2026 started from the gap this revealed.
The programme
How Wibo built a practical programme for 60 Huawei Italia managers, with tools to use at once and successful executives
Wibo built a tailored leadership programme for 60 managers at Huawei Italia, designed as an alternative to general-interest training. The programme combined tools that apply in daily work with direct conversations with executives who have reached high levels of success.
For Huawei Italia, this combination of practical tools and conversation with reference figures is what sets the programme apart from other training providers it had already tried.
The impact
What changed in Huawei Italia’s teams after the programme, with 70-80% of managers attending sessions voluntarily
Sessions of the Huawei Italia programme drew between 70 and 80% voluntary attendance. People who could not attend because of work asked to catch up on the content. For Donatella Criscuolo, HR at Huawei Italia, this is the most concrete proof of a programme seen as useful and not as a training obligation.
Several managers at Huawei Italia reported that they had already started applying what they learned in their own teams, turning the content into everyday leadership behaviour. Some managers added it to their personal development goals, and Donatella Criscuolo, HR at Huawei Italia, readily recommends it to other HR teams looking for a programme of real value.
