Management

Training: an innovative model for businesses from Brescia-based Blackship

CEO Acampora: “For us, creating value means offering more than the customer expects, generating that sense of wonder that can transform a business relationship into a lasting one.”

Pasquale Acampora, ceo di blackship

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Translated by AI
Versione italiana

2' min read

Translated by AI
Versione italiana

To make training methods – which, until a few years ago, were largely reserved for large industrial groups – accessible to as many people and businesses as possible. This is the philosophy behind blackship, a management training and consultancy firm founded in Brescia on 17 January 2013. A company established far from the traditional major centres of Italian consultancy – Milan, Rome or Bologna – which has become a permanent laboratory for innovation applied to business.

The principle on which Blackship is based is: investing in partnerships and strategic alliances with leading international players , so as to have highly effective tools and methodologies that are first used and tested internally. Not training based solely on theory, but a model grounded in direct experience and the practical verification of results.

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“blackship is based on a very simple principle: we never ask companies to do anything that we haven’t first tried out on ourselves. We are a permanent laboratory: we study, test, measure and improve, and only when a method produces concrete results do we turn it into a model to be shared,” says Pasquale Acampora, CEO of blackship.
“For us,” says Acampora, “it’s a clear entrepreneurial vision: creating value means offering more than the customer expects, generating that sense of wonder that can transform a commercial relationship into a lasting one.”

This philosophy is summarised in the formula for success developed by Blackship:

S = Qˢ × Q × I where:

S stands for success, understood as the ability to make something you want to happen actually happen;
the first Q indicates the amount of time devoted to a goal, to the success you wish to achieve;
the ‘s’ in the exponent represents the tools used;
the second ‘Q’ indicates the quality of the time spent, i.e. the level of concentration and focus whilst carrying out a particular activity;
‘I’ represents the impact that a particular activity can have on achieving the result.

“Tools play a crucial role. To knock down a wall, you can use your hands, a hammer and a chisel, or a jackhammer: the aim is the same, but the time required, the efficiency and the energy expended differ radically.”

In addition to 11,000 people, a further 7,000 people were involved in 2025: 4,000 people in bespoke company programmes and another 7,000 in inter-company courses and events.

The average ratings collected were as follows:
9.62 out of 10 for in-house courses;
9.55 out of 10 for inter-company programmes.

According to the company’s internal figures, ‘businesses supported through programmes where payment is based solely on success have recorded an average annual increase in turnover of 22.9% over the last five years, a figure that also includes the years affected by the pandemic’.

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Blackship’s growth is also reflected in its financial results: from €3 million in turnover in 2023, the company rose to around 3.73 million in 2024 and to 4.37 million in 2025, with a workforce that now comprises around 80 employees. 

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