Cristiana Pinciroli Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

  A native of São Paulo and mother to three children, Cristiana Pinciroli began her sports career as a high-performance professional water polo player. She captained the Brazilian team for 15 years, playing professionally for four years in Italy, her side winning the European Interclub Champions Cup for the first time. In her final appearance at the World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Australia in 1998, having scored the second-most goals in the tournament, she was recognized as among the seven best female water-polo players in the world. While still playing water polo, Cristiana began a successful corporate career, gaining over 25 years’ experience as an executive and in people management, 23 of these years with leading Brazilian retail bank Itaú Unibanco. In 2019, she founded WeTeam, a consultancy dedicated to combining the lessons learned from successful careers in sport and business with the study of positive psychology, with the goal of furthering the development and fulfilment of human potential through training, seminars and mentoring.VISIT CRIS'S WEBSITE You are listening to Cris's author interview