When you talk to Filomena Di Luise, the word that comes up first and most often is "results." As Programme Director for Oracle EMEA Cloud Lift Services, she leads efforts that have already empowered more than 1.000 customers from the most diverse sectors to overcome migration challenges and dramatically accelerate their cloud journey by moving critical workloads in weeks, or even days, rather than months. Her clear vision for how technology can transform business is key to providing expert guidance, simplifying complex cloud transitions, and enabling rapid adoption and innovation as a mission.

Filomena's career is built on a strong foundation in data and strategy. She holds a Master's degree in Statistics from La Sapienza University in Rome and studied Leadership and Business Strategy at Harvard Business School. Her background in analytics gave her the ability to see patterns and connections that others might miss, while her time at Harvard helped her develop a broader understanding of how people and systems work together. From the beginning, she has been driven by a curiosity to understand what really makes organizations thrive—a curiosity that later evolved into her mission to help companies grow through purposeful innovation.

Before joining Oracle, Filomena built an impressive career across consulting, data analytics, and corporate transformation. She began at Deloitte and Capgemini, two of the world's top consulting firms, where she learned how to analyze complex problems and design efficient, actionable solutions. Those early years shaped her methodical approach to leadership—one that balances strategy with empathy and precision with creativity.

Her next chapter came at SAP, a multinational producer of enterprise resource planning software, where she took on a more technical role focused on big data, IoT, experimental product development, and ad-hoc framework design. There, she gained firsthand experience in how digital tools are designed, not just implemented, and developed a deeper understanding of how innovation happens inside large organizations. That experience opened the door to her work at Philip Morris International, where she managed major IT and digital transformation projects from the company's headquarters in Switzerland. The role expanded her perspective on how business priorities and technological goals must align for true progress to happen.

Filomena's consulting expertise continued to grow at BIP Business Integration Partners, Italy's leading management consulting firm. There, she worked with senior executives to build growth strategies, improve processes, and unite diverse teams under common objectives. This focus on collaboration and efficiency became a defining part of her leadership style—something she brought with her to Oracle in 2021.

At Oracle, Filomena's work goes far beyond overseeing strategic initiatives, with her leadership reflected in concrete customer transformations across industries.

She plays a relevant role in accelerating cloud adoption, refining strategies for business growth, and connecting global teams across sales, engineering, product development, and operations. Her leadership has helped Oracle strengthen its position as a trusted partner for enterprises moving to the cloud, and her results-driven approach continues to inspire those around her.

Sisal, for instance, was able to cut its infrastructure total cost of ownership by around half while improving performance and reliability after migrating its critical financial planning and management applications from Microsoft Azure to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) with Oracle Cloud Lift Services.

Similarly, Almoosa Hospital strengthened business continuity and data resiliency on OCI, and NAS Neuron optimized operational efficiency and supported its expansion plans.

Colleagues describe her as disciplined but open-minded, someone who knows how to balance structure with innovation.

She believes that purpose and performance are inseparable. In fact, Filomena is the creator of the Purpose Avocado Framework (PAF), a model that helps organizations measure how well their corporate purpose aligns with that of their employees. In her Forbes articles on purpose, she uses this framework to show executives how a clear 'hard core' of non‑negotiable values and a more flexible outer layer of practices can be translated into concrete KPIs, engagement metrics, and decision criteria, so that purpose becomes a real management lever rather than an abstract slogan.

Her work in this area earned her an invitation to join the Forbes Business Development Council, where she contributes articles that explore the relationship between business growth, purpose, and long-term value.

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In her Forbes pieces "Purpose at the Core: How to Drive Long-Term Business Success" and "Measuring Alignment Between Company and Employee Purpose," she writes about how businesses can prevent risks and foster engagement by focusing on alignment and meaning.

While in the article "Shifting the Mindset from Leadership to Growship" presents a new paradigm for leading in fast, uncertain contexts, where traditional control‑based leadership is no longer enough. It argues that leaders must shift from perfection and short‑term numbers toward a growth mindset that values learning, experimentation, and progress. It is described as a dynamic ecosystem fueled by continuous self‑reflection, iteration, and curiosity instead of fear.​

Growship is enabled when several conditions come together, including shared purpose across the company, teams, and individuals, a strong culture of innovation, organizational agility, a courageous and flexible vision, and emotional capabilities such as self-awareness, empathy, and psychological safety.

The "not yet" mindset is promoted so that unmet goals are viewed as steps in an ongoing learning journey rather than failures. Mindset is treated as changeable; experimentation is encouraged, failures are reframed as data, and inner obstacles such as imposter syndrome are addressed.​

The article proposes concrete moves such as assessing people on how they think as well as what they deliver, making psychological safety a prerequisite for innovation, and expanding accountability so leaders are responsible for enabling learning and growth in others, not just financial outcomes. Overall, Growship is presented as leadership that aligns purpose and passion to turn uncertainty into a space where human potential and organizational resilience can grow.

Filomena's articles on purpose and leadership have been picked up and discussed by outlets such as Reputation Today and the University of Navarra's Purpose Trends reports, which draw on her frameworks as reference points.

Both sources emphasize that purpose must be more than a slogan: it should be codified as the foundational mission that shapes identities, guides choices, and enables lasting trust and engagement.​

In this narrative, leadership is expected to move from the traditional command-and-control approach toward Growship, a model where a growth mindset is actively cultivated, curiosity is placed above fear, and "not yet" thinking—believing progress is always possible—is embedded in organizational culture. Reputation Today amplifies this point, mentioning Growship as "an ongoing process of becoming curious enough to explore, brave enough to change and humble enough to learn." This paradigm shift enables leaders and teams to face uncertainty creatively and to treat change as an exciting opportunity for collective advancement.​

Universidad de Navarra's research complements Reputation Today's cultural focus by providing a structured, research-driven lens on purpose. Through continued observation and benchmarking, their reports showcase how purpose can be strategically measured, linking hard KPIs (outcomes like retention and reputation) and soft, perception-based indicators (alignment, belonging, meaning) to organizational impact. Filomena's frameworks are highlighted as bridges between theory and practice—making purpose concrete by integrating measurement, dialogue, and continual adaptation as standard managerial operating procedures.​

By integrating both perspectives, a practical roadmap emerges: purpose serves as the organizational anchor, KPIs and frameworks translate vision into measurable progress, and Growship fosters the adaptive culture required for sustained innovation and reputation. Organizations and leaders who embrace this approach are described as uniquely equipped to build authentic trust, strategic partnerships, and competitive resilience over time.

Across her career, Filomena has shown that leadership in technology is not only about innovation—it's about doing so with intention and purpose. Her consistent track record of success across global organizations has made her a sought-after executive and strategic advisor, with growing demand from companies in both Europe and the United States. Whether leading large-scale digital transformations, guiding cross-functional teams, or shaping new models for purpose-driven leadership, she brings a unique combination of technical fluency, business acumen, and human insight.

As she continues to expand her impact on a global scale, Filomena remains committed to building organizations where clarity, integrity, inclusion, and curiosity aren't just values; they're operating principles.

Beyond her corporate roles, Filomena is also engaged in advancing inclusive leadership through initiatives such as Empower Women That Rock, a nationwide and global, referral-based network designed to connect and empower female executives across industries in a strict no-solicitation, trust-first environment.

By fostering a unified community where women can share ideas, test strategies, and learn from one another's lived experience, the network extends Filomena's belief that inclusion must be a daily operating principle, not a slogan. Its upcoming mentorship program will connect seasoned professionals with young women at the start of their careers, creating a virtuous cycle in which today's mentees become tomorrow's mentors and amplifying a culture of pay-it-forward support that mirrors the purpose-driven, psychologically safe ecosystems Filomena advocates in her Growship work.