Living a Life of Iterative Learning

Our failures and successes provide us the opportunity to gain new perspectives about ourselves such as what is easy, what is uncomfortable, what we value, and what we fear. These are valuable insights to help us evolve and realize our full potential as humans. I have experienced successes, failures, adversities such as child of immigrant parents, work layoffs, transitioning to different industries, divorce, and single parenting. I hope to inspire women to see life as iterative process and pause and reflect on their own personal and professional experiences and redeem all that is valuable to realize their awesomeness and gain the confidence to step into leadership space for the world needs more women leaders.

During this session you will learn:

• The term, iterative, is not often applied to life learning. Why not look at life as an iterative process when change is always in motion, and we are always having to adjust to ongoing changes?

• I practice pausing, reflecting, adjusting, evolving, using every experience as building blocks of learning to identify what is redeemable. I will share how seeing life as an iterative process helps redeem all that is valuable to realize and let go of the sense of failure.

With more than 25 years of product development across Oil, Finance, Retail, Tech industries, Aida Rivas has thrived and survived tremendous changes on a professional and personal level and continues to be an enthusiastic leader making a difference in our Tech industry while mentoring other women and individuals of underrepresented groups.

Aida started as a software engineer then managed teams of engineers and later transitioned to program management because she enjoys collaborating with teams across geographies, across company organizations delivering solutions that simplify the experience of product teams across the company and in turn WOW customers.