Diana Verde Nieto

Book Diana Verde Nieto for your event

Diana Verde Nieto is an entrepreneur, international keynote speaker, Non-Executive Director and trusted advisor working at the intersection of practical AI, human potential and strategic transformation. Throughout her career, she has built businesses that create lasting value for organisations and their people.

Today, Diana focuses on closing the gap between boardroom strategy and everyday execution. She helps leaders understand how technology and human capability can work together to turn ambitious plans into consistent behaviours and measurable results.

Her keynotes combine an entrepreneurial perspective, board-level insight and extensive experience of transformation. Rather than treating AI as an abstract technology, Diana explores how it can empower the people responsible for delivering an organisation’s strategy every day.

From ESG to the Social dimension

After decades pioneering sustainability and ESG, Diana is now focused on the “Social” dimension, where workforce capability, operational resilience, employee retention, customer experience and commercial performance converge.

Central to her work is the 80% of the global workforce operating on the frontline or without a desk. These employees play a vital role in delivering strategy, maintaining standards and shaping customer experience, yet they can be underserved by traditional workplace technology.

Diana challenges organisations to move the AI conversation beyond automation and replacement. Instead, she explores how AI can amplify human capability by giving people access to the knowledge, guidance and confidence they need to perform at their best.

Practical AI in the flow of work

Diana is Co-Founder of Edify Collective, an AI-powered companion that delivers instant, role-specific guidance directly in the flow of work. Edify translates organisational knowledge into practical, real-time support, including:

• Company culture and organisational knowledge
• Standard operating procedures and workflows
• Operational standards
• Sustainability commitments
• Role-specific guidance

Built on a science-backed methodology designed to improve knowledge retention and behaviour change, Edify gives frontline teams greater clarity, confidence and capability while helping organisations achieve consistency at scale.

Through this work, Diana demonstrates how AI becomes valuable when integrated into the realities of people’s jobs, supporting stronger operational execution and better customer outcomes.

Turning strategy into behaviour

A central theme in Diana Verde Nieto’s work is turning strategy into behaviour. Organisations can invest heavily in values, processes, sustainability commitments and transformation plans, but their impact depends on whether people can apply them consistently.

Diana explores how AI can translate organisational ambition into accessible, practical guidance at the moments that matter. For boards and executive teams, this connects priorities that are often considered separately: workforce capability, retention, operational consistency, customer experience and commercial performance.

Her approach gives audiences a human and commercial perspective on AI, showing how technology can strengthen people’s ability to make decisions, build capability and deliver better outcomes.

Boardroom insight & global experience

Alongside her entrepreneurial work, Diana advises boards and executive teams navigating strategic transformation. She serves as a Non-Executive Director of the British Beauty Council and sits on its Remuneration Committee.

Diana is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education graduate. She is also the award-winning author of Reimagining Luxury, endorsed by former Unilever CEO Paul Polman, Idris and Sabrina Elba, and Harvard Professor John Kotter.

Her experience across entrepreneurship, sustainability, leadership and technology gives Diana a broad perspective on transformation and how organisations can connect ambitious goals with the people responsible for delivering them.

Why book Diana Verde Nieto?

Book Diana Verde Nieto for a keynote that brings AI closer to the realities of leadership, operations and people. She shows audiences how practical AI can amplify human capability, turn organisational knowledge into everyday action and place frontline employees at the heart of transformation.

Her insights are particularly relevant for boards, executive teams and organisations exploring AI adoption, workforce transformation, employee capability, customer experience, operational resilience, sustainability and the future of work.

Drawing on decades of experience in entrepreneurship, sustainability and strategic transformation alongside her current work with practical AI, Diana connects boardroom ambition with frontline reality and shows how people, technology and purpose can turn strategy into measurable impact.