Iliana Oris Valiente, CPA, CA

A growing class of senior professionals, founders and investors no longer lets one country define their life. They live across two to four cities, choose where they pay tax and raise their families, and shop for countries the way they shop for any major purchase. A record 142,000 millionaires moved across borders in 2025. The much larger flexible class behind them barely shows up in any official count. For the brands, banks, governments and employers who serve them, this cohort is hiding in plain sight.

In this keynote, Iliana reveals how to:

• Meet the flexible class. Who they are, the five tells that identify them, and how they differ from the digital nomad stereotype.
• Think of a country as a product. Why people now compare countries on perks, fit, cost and what they get in return, and what pushes, pulls and enables them to move.
• Read the global signal. Track the golden visas, nomad visas and tax incentives countries use to compete for this cohort, because policy moves are the early warning system for where they go next.
• Spot who is wired for it. Use the Potted Plant Theory to see how mindset predicts a multi-base life long before booking history or a résumé does.
• Design for the six life stages. From the Explorer trying cities on to the global nomad settling down, each transition is where the biggest decisions, and the biggest opportunities, sit.

You’ll leave knowing who the flexible class is, what they want and where they’re heading next. You’ll also have a starting point for the products, services, policies and workplaces that will win their loyalty.

Audience:

• Brands in travel, hospitality, luxury and real estate
• Banks, wealth managers and insurers
• Governments, investment agencies and policy makers
• Founders, investors and innovation teams
• CHROs and leadership teams competing for senior talent

Ideal for industry conferences, leadership offsites and innovation sessions at organizations ready to serve the next generation of global citizens. Available as a keynote or a 90-minute innovation workshop.

C-suite leaders and senior execs face relentless pressure to translate AI hype into real business value. Drawing on over a decade of advising boards, Fortune 500s, and high-growth startups, and a global pulse check of 24,000 leaders, Iliana Oris Valiente delivers a rigorous, jargon-free exploration of where AI stands today — and where it’s headed next.

She shares her three-layer AI stack framework (Foundation → Applications → Human Experience), accelerated by the rise of robotics and AI agentic systems, to provide a roadmap for executives to start driving real results within 30 days.

This keynote equips leadership teams to:

• Map today’s AI landscape and where to focus, from large-language models and infrastructure to business use cases.
• Pinpoint three high-impact levers (industry-specific AI pilots and cross-functional frameworks) that drive measurable ROI.
• Understand what comes next, from multimodal breakthroughs to agentic systems and the rise of humanoid robotics.
• Generate ideas for sparking AI initiatives across functions, equipping both executive and mid-level teams with concrete next steps around tools.
• Understand mindset shifts needed to mobilize employees to embrace the spirit of experimentation, backed by real examples of rapid-learning “innovation labs”. 

You’ll leave with a heavyweight, peer-to-peer playbook that is rooted in real client engagements and hundreds of millions in delivered impact, to demystify AI’s present and chart a clear path to future-proof growth.

Audience:

• C-suite executives and senior leadership teams (framework resonates across industries and functions)
• Mid-level and department leaders seeking actionable AI strategy playbooks
• Company-wide events aiming to spark experimentation and equip teams with practical tools for AI integration 

Iliana’s insights support both executive decision-making and day-to-day implementation — helping organizations shift from hype to impact, top-down and bottom-up.

Today’s most ambitious leaders are quietly running a second company: their own life. Building an enterprise, sitting on boards, growing a personal brand, backing side ventures: every leader is effectively the CEO of a business that has no chief of staff, no operations team, and no back office. And while most are racing to apply AI to the day job, almost no one is applying it to the enterprise of their own life.

Drawing on more than a decade of advising boards and Fortune 500s, and her own experience building an AI digital twin to extend her reach, Iliana Oris Valiente reframes AI as the operating system for the life you’re actually running. The real work is building the infrastructure those tools can support and maximize.

In this keynote (also offered as a hands-on workshop), Iliana helps leaders:

1. Map Your Spinning Plates: Take honest inventory of every “life department” you personally run (across investments, boards, brand, family, health) and see the business of your life clearly for the first time.
2. Diagnose Before You Automate: Map your own processes and decision flows so AI amplifies a system that works, instead of accelerating the chaos.
3. Build the Infrastructure: Design the personal operating system; routines, delegation, and data, that turns scattered tools into a coordinated back office.
4. Deploy AI Strategically: Pinpoint the highest-leverage places to save time and mental load, from agents and digital twins to lightweight automations you can put to work this week.
5. Reclaim Your Capacity: Free up the time and attention that compounding growth requires; so you can lead your enterprise, and your life, on purpose rather than reactively.

You’ll leave with a clear-eyed map of the business you didn’t realize you were running — and a practical AI infrastructure to run it with intention. From juggling spinning plates to operating a coordinated system, you’ll gain the tools to buy back time, cut the overwhelm, and scale your impact without scaling your hours.

Audience:

• Founders, executives, and multi-hyphenate leaders juggling ventures, boards, and personal brands
• C-suite and senior leaders seeking practical, personal AI adoption that goes beyond the day job
• High-performing professionals and entrepreneurs looking to buy back time and reduce overwhelm

Ideal for leadership retreats, executive offsites, and founder communities ready to run the business of their lives as intentionally as they run their companies.