Iliana Oris Valiente

Iliana Oris Valiente, CPA, CA, is a recognized authority on AI, future of work strategy, and global talent mobility. She has been featured in various media outlets, including television, radio, and print, from The Financial Times to Bloomberg and beyond, for her experience as a Fortune 500 executive, board member, and VC investor.

As Managing Director and Head of North America Innovation Centers at Accenture, Iliana has built and scaled innovation hubs delivering over $500 million in client impact by leading multidisciplinary teams in design, data, and technology across emergent areas like AI and cross-industry transformations. She serves on the boards of directors at Sunnybrook Hospital and CPA Ontario, advises venture-backed startups, and regularly shares her investor insights with family offices and emerging fund managers. Iliana’s lived experience as a global citizen—working and living across many countries—drives her thinking on flexible-location strategies and has inspired her signature frameworks. As the creator of The Potted Plant Theory, a neuroscience-based leadership framework shared with over 1,000 executives, Iliana is one of the first people to clone herself by building Laila, a fully interactive AI digital twin that she demos on stage.

Iliana translates complexity into actionable, human-centred strategy, showing leaders how to use the AI landscape as a growth engine for measurable ROI. Her proven framework serves as a go-to playbook for C-suites, guiding companies to embed rapid AI initiatives and foster a thriving culture of experimentation.

She also equips leaders with strategies to surface and harness hidden digital-nomad talent by decoding complex global policies. Finally, Iliana tackles the profound questions of AI ethics and human agency, empowering leaders to thoughtfully design a future that humans genuinely want to live in.

From C-suite offsites and all-hands employee townhalls to HR summits and investor forums, audiences leave inspired, equipped with signature frameworks, and ready to act on the trends reshaping work, mobility, and human-machine collaboration.