EXECUTIVE · BOARD MEMBER · INVESTOR · SPEAKER
Translating what's coming in capital, technology and work.
Iliana Oris Valiente works at the intersection of where technology and innovation are going and how humans can truly thrive.
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ABOUT ILIANA
Iliana Oris Valiente is a corporate executive, emerging tech pioneer, board member, venture investor, published author and global public speaker.
Her work runs on four questions: how organizations change when AI is in the room, how humans are wired, where work and talent go next, and where capital moves at the edge. Underneath all of it she is building toward a future humans want to live in.
Speaking
Global summits, leadership offsites and boardrooms, and a global pulse check of 24,000 leaders.
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Sunnybrook Hospital, CPA Ontario, and a decade advising boards and Fortune 500s.
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Venture investing, mentoring founders, and a working view of 1,000+ emerging fund managers through Allocator One.
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A perspective that
stays with a room
long after it clears.
SPEAKING
Iliana speaks on AI, global talent, venture capital, and the systems people run their own lives with. Every talk comes out of real client work: a decade advising boards and Fortune 500s, a global pulse check of 24,000 leaders, and AllocatorOne's read on more than 1,000 emerging fund managers.
Key signature talks
CAPITAL DECODED™
Venture capital is opaque by design. Here is how you see through it.
A self-paced program for investors who want to understand venture capital as an asset class, and decide for themselves whether it belongs in their portfolio at all.
5 MODULES 28 LESSONS SELF-PACED LIFETIME ACCESS
Inside the program
- IUnderstanding the VC game6 Lessons
- IIChoose your mode4 Lessons
- IIIBuilding your personal investment thesis4 Lessons
- IVFinding deals, protecting yourself, building reputation6 Lessons
- VWhat happens after you wire the funds4 Lessons
- +Companion materials2 Resources
THE ASSET CLASS
How venture actually works, how it behaves next to everything else you own, and why the risk and return profile looks the way it does.
YOUR ROLE IN IT
LP, direct investor, co-investor, scout, observer, or none of the above. You decide which one, on purpose.
READING A PITCH
How to read fund and deal pitches closely enough to know what you are being sold, in an industry built on charm.
YOUR OWN THESIS
An investment thesis you can explain, so the right opportunities find you and you know the moment you have drifted from it.
SEQUOIA
Deeply rooted, resource rich, built for stability. Thrives with depth, permanence and the long view.
RED MAPLE
Rooted but adaptive. Holds a strong base while still turning with the seasons, the versatile middle that flexes without losing its footing.
POTTED PLANT
High novelty, anchored by a pot or two to call home. Anchors through tangible things, a home base, a studio, the same coffee shop in three cities.
AIR PLANT
Nimble, self sufficient, alive in motion. Anchors through people, rhythms and rituals more than places.
POTTED PLANT THEORY™
Every plant comes
with a care guide.
You should too.
The Potted Plant Quiz reveals your personal plant archetype, a simple visual way to understand how you are wired and what allows you to flourish.
Humans are more like plants than we admit. Some of us are deeply rooted, resource rich and built for stability. Some of us are nimble, self sufficient and alive in motion. Most of us sit somewhere in between, balancing how much novelty we crave against how much certainty we need to thrive.
THE NEWSLETTER
Translations is where Iliana unpacks technology, societal change and human values, and where investing and finance trends are heading. Every post comes out of her own work, with the personal reflections left in.
