Heidi Araya
CEO & Chief Consultant at BrightLogic, a people-first AI Agency
Orlando, Florida, United States
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Heidi Araya helps organizations adopt AI — not just buy it. Over 25 years in process improvement and organizational change, she's learned that the hard part of transformation is never the technology. It's getting people to change how they work.
Today Heidi leads AI adoption at Global Indemnity Group, where she leads the AI Center of Excellence, drives AI adoption, and runs the training that turns curiosity into daily practice.
Her method gives teams a repeatable way to map their processes and find where AI actually pays off. It grew out of years of value stream mapping work that made her a leading voice in the field, and out of a deliberate pivot in 2023, when she completed MIT's Applied Data Science program and founded her own AI agency.
Heidi is the author of two books, an author of leadership courses for Pluralsight, and a practitioner-first speaker whose sessions have reached audiences from credit unions to the wine industry.
When she's not working, Heidi raises butterflies, tackles home improvement projects, and never stops learning.
Connect: linkedin.com/in/heidiaraya
Area of Expertise
Topics
Oviedo Winter Springs Business Alliance - Speaking on AI
Life After Tech Podcast
Thriving in an AI World - Private Event (Payments Processor)
Solopreneur Sandbox - Build Your Own AI Intern Using Custom GPTs
Hire your own AI Assistant - Custom GPTs
Panel on AI - Longwood Council Lunch & Learn
The Soloist Life Podcast Interview
Thriving in an AI World - Private Event (Multi-National Bank)
AI Exploration Workshop - private event
Build your own custom GPT Workshop - Growth Habit Crew
Build your own custom GPT Workshop
Soloist Women
MTUG Conference - Keynote
Product Tank: AI & Your Career in Product
Meetups, Buenos Aires
LeSS Meetup - You and AI
Lightweight Value Stream Mapping - Code Camp Orlando 2023
Consulting for Impact
Consulting for Impact: co-founder and co-host
Agile to Agility Value Stream Management Conference
Unlock value with an agile key: Demystifying Value Stream Mapping
Live! 360 Orlando 2023 Sessionize Event
Atlanta Developers' Conference 2023 Sessionize Event
Agile Leadership Network Meetup: Mapping the Path to Value: The missing piece ...
Mapping the Path to Value: The missing piece of your Agile-DevOps transition
Orlando Code Camp 2023 Sessionize Event
The Future of Agile - (private event) 700 people attended live
LeSS Meetup - NYC - Uncovering the Agile Mindset
Uncovering the Agile Mindset - 80 people watched live; recording here -
https://www.keystepstosuccess.com/2020/11/less-talks-uncovering-the-agile-mindset-with-heidi-araya-and-john-turley/
Give Thanks for Scrum: Hiring for your Scrum Teams
Hiring for your scrum teams (375 people attended the event)
DevOps Days Warsaw
Four Facets of Agility (90 people watched live)
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqUmYM9R_Pc&list=PLnKL6-WWWE_X5k3GyLSeaqg_HKqg-EF8Q&index=9
Global SAFe Summit: Four Facets of Agility
Four Facets of Agility (262 people logged in to watch)
Business Agility Day: Agile Hiring
Agile Hiring (171 people tuned in live)
Humentum Solution Sessions
Pivoting under pressure (53 people tuned in live for this session)
Best Agile Articles Conference
Agile Hiring
Coaching Agile Journeys : Agile HR in the Remote Age
The Role of Agile HR in the Remote Age
Hacking HR Kyiv - Agile HR
June 22 - Hacking HR Kyiv - Agile HR -
Future of Work: HackerSpace & Toptal
June 17 - Digital Transformation with Distributed Teams -
Bucharest Agile Meetup
Igniting the role of Agile HR in Remote Age
DevOps Days Geneva, Switzerland
Agile Hiring (over 100 people attended my session)
HR Transform
"Where the company of the future begins."
Igniting the Role of HR in the Digital Age
Heidi Araya, Director of Agile Transformation, BrightLogic
Elena Vassilieva, Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Coach, Amaitus VR Production
VSLive 360! Orlando, Florida
Live360 Orlando - VSH13 Closing The Feedback Loop: Unblock Your Agile/DevOps Transformation
Live 360 Orlando - VSH09 Overcoming Virtual Challenges: Strategies to Increase Engagement in Distributed Agile Teams
DevOps Days Stockholm
DevOps Days Stockholm Closing Keynote - Growing Your Agile Team: Hiring & Inspiring the Right Mindset & Skills
Women in Technology International (WITI) Orlando
GAINING A COMPETITIVE EDGE THROUGH EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
Open Leadership Symposium
Agile Open Practitioner Workshop
Agile Maine Day
Overcoming Challenges in Distributed Teams
Agile Africa
Overcoming Challenges & Increasing Engagement in Distributed Teams
Business Analyst World
The role of Project Management in an Agile Environment
Tampa Bay Agile Meetup
12 Tampa The role of Project Management in an Agile Environment
Remote Leadership Think Tank
Overcoming Virtual Challenges
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast
Interviewed by Vasco Duarte for his well-known podcast
Code Camp, Orlando, FL
17: Code Camp, Orlando, FL: Scrum, Kanban, or Scrumban? http://www.orlandocodecamp.com/Sessions/Details/33
DojoLIVE
7: Online: DojoLIVE: "Bridging distance: Overcoming Challenges on Distributed Agile teams"
VSLive 360! Orlando, Florida
- Two talks
Scrum, Kanban, or Scrumban?
DevOps: A Catalyst for Enterprise Agility (with Esteban Garcia)
Jim Moran Institute Small Business & Leadership Conference
2-3: Orlando, FL: Jim Moran Institute Small Business & Leadership Conference
Distributed Agile Worlds Conference
January 26: Online: Distributed Agile Worlds Conference: Overcoming Virtual Challenges
Remote forever Summit
Nov 9: Online: https://remoteforeversummit.com/ Overcoming Virtual Challenges
KM World
Nov 8: Washington, DC: KMWorld. Scrum, Kanban, or Scrumban?
Teksystems Meetup
Intro to Agile for Recruiters (TekSystems)
3Pillar Group
week-long training events for 3Pillar Staff
Agile Professionals of Sacramento Meetup
Scrum, Kanban, or Scrumban?
PMI Chapter Dinner
Talk - Scrum, Kanban, or Scrumban?
Techwell East
Scrum, Kanban, or Scrumban?
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