Mariya Breyter is a business and IT executive with twenty years of experience ranging from government jobs to versatile corporate experience in large-scale technology (Amazon), financial services (Goldman Sachs), startups, healthcare, media, and education with a passion for leading enterprise-level agile adoptions and culture changes. She is a passionate product manager, agilist, and lean thinker, and an active member of the New York City lean and agile community.

Mariya is also a contributor to a number of online resources on product management, lean, agile, and project management topics, including her own lean and agile site, www.agileleantransformation.com. She was a keynote speaker at Product World 2021 on the topic "Working Backwards Powered by OKRs". She is the author of a 2022 bestseller, "Agile Project and Product Management."

Mariya has a combined BA /MA degree in Linguistics and Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Computer Linguistics, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University. Her passion is building products that delight customers, using the lean mindset, and creating high-performance teams and organizations. At home, Mariya is using lean principles to organize her family activities, and the kids use Kanban to achieve complete alignment and full transparency.