Next appearance: WWCode Leadership Summit • October 6–8, 2026

Shakita Trigg • Upcoming Appearances

Where leadership, AI, and execution meet.

Join Shakita Trigg live as she helps leaders turn AI opportunity into accountable systems, stronger execution, and measurable business impact.

Aligned Strategy Partners

Creator of Don’t Automate Pretty Garbage™
Fortune 100 Operating Rigor. Built for Main Street.

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Upcoming speaking engagements

One clear message: AI should expand leadership capacity, not create more work.

  • Shakita Trigg speaking at the African Women in STEM roundtable on October 17, 2026

    African Women in STEM

    Your Expertise + AI: Become the Advisor Organizations Can’t Afford to Ignore

    Saturday, October 17, 2026

    10:00 AM Eastern Time

    Register on Eventbrite

Past Features

On Stages. In Print. In the Conversation.

For more than two decades, Shakita Trigg has translated complexity into clarity—from STEM leadership and Fortune 100 operations to accountable AI, operational excellence, and the systems that help businesses scale.

  • Shakita Trigg presenting Build Your First AI Employee Live at the GNTC Summit on September 10, 2026

    Speaking

    Build Your First AI Employee, Live: 5 Guardrails Before It Touches Your Business

    GNTC Summit

    September 10, 2026

    Hands-on summit session where approximately 50–60 attendees built their first AI networking employee live.

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  • Shakita Trigg, featured speaker at the AI Mastery Summit, presenting Pretty Garbage Math on July 30, 2026

    Speaking

    Pretty Garbage™ Math: The Hidden Cost of Every AI Prompt

    AI Mastery Summit

    July 30, 2026

    Featured speaker session showing why what looks fast can still cost your business.

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  • AI Insights Summit speaker announcement for Shakita Trigg, MindVelocity Architect and AI Infrastructure Strategist

    Speaking

    Don’t Automate Pretty Garbage™: The Framework for Building Smarter Business Systems

    AI Insights Summit 2026

    May 27–30, 2026

    Featured virtual session on building smarter business systems before automating them.

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  • Your Hot AI Summer free virtual summit speaker lineup featuring Shakita Trigg, May 30

    Speaking

    Your Hot AI Summer — Free Virtual Summit

    Hosted by The AI Tech Boss

    Saturday, May 30

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Audience Impact

The room responded.

Across multiple 2026 speaking engagements, audiences, organizers, and community leaders consistently described Shakita’s presentations as valuable, relevant, inspiring, and worth hearing again.

Audience impact across two summits

Audience Responses Across Two Summits
159
Found the Sessions Valuable
99%
Would Hear Shakita Speak Again
99%
Inspiring and Relevant
97%+

Combined from post-session audience feedback collected after the AI Insights Summit on May 27, 2026, and the AI Insights Mastery Summit on July 30, 2026.

Selected audience, organizer, and community feedback

  • Shakita was polished, high-energy, interactive, and impactful. She left me wanting more and gave us a clear call to action.
    Attendee · AI Insights Mastery Summit · July 2026
  • I got so much out of speaking with you and your session.
    Katy Host · Senior Account Executive, ISNY · GNTC Summit Attendee
  • It’s a tool that is needed for our business and other businesses. I wouldn’t mind partnering with her to use it for my clients. Shakita was phenomenal—very smart.
    Attendee · AI Insights Summit · May 2026
  • Not just ‘look what the tool can do,’ but what job are we giving it, where are the boundaries, and who still owns the decision. I also love that people left your session having actually built something. Inspiration is nice, but walking out with something you can put to work is different.
    Yolanda Marie Tate · AI Readiness Strategist, U.S. Army CSM (Ret.) · Message Endorsement
  • Shakita Trigg was awesome. Pretty Garbage is something we really need to consider when we prompt. I like her solution.
    Attendee · AI Insights Mastery Summit · July 2026
  • I thoroughly enjoyed your session! Your concern about early-career professionals losing opportunities to build foundational skills resonates with me.
    Dr. Asit Bandy · Assistant Professor of Business Analytics, Austin Peay State University · GNTC Summit Attendee
  • She gave insights and a way of thinking I wasn’t aware of previously—very helpful. Shakita was confident, spoke clearly, was engaging, and is clearly an expert who is passionate about AI and adding value.
    Attendee · AI Insights Summit · May 2026
  • This session provided immediate value to those of us currently using AI tools for business. Very useful indeed.
    Attendee · AI Insights Mastery Summit · July 2026
  • Loved your session, Shakita! Thank you so much for the time and dropping some knowledge on us.
    Tommy Stahl · Sr. Account Manager, TalentBridge · GNTC Summit Attendee
  • It’s very relevant, and people of all ages would benefit from this type of training—even if only to become familiar with AI tools and learn what to do with them.
    Attendee · AI Insights Summit · May 2026
  • You framed this clearly. Building AI agents is not just about expanding capability. It also requires us to be just as intentional about supervision, boundaries, and accountability.
    Vernell Rixner · Author, Scale Without the Bottleneck · Message Endorsement
  • This was such valuable information and such a smart way to solve a very frustrating problem. Well done and impressive.
    Attendee · AI Insights Mastery Summit · July 2026
  • Fantastic presentation, Shakita. Great to meet you.
    Sam Hadfield · Software Developer · GNTC Summit Attendee
  • Shakita’s presentation was fire! She gave a lot of value. My takeaway: you will run into problems with AI if you don’t connect strategy with execution.
    Attendee · AI Insights Summit · May 2026
  • Shakita did a great job with the presentation and slides. The takeaway will be very helpful.
    Attendee · AI Insights Mastery Summit · July 2026
  • You were honestly one of the most memorable people I met there… what especially stayed with me was how incredibly down-to-earth and humble you were despite everything you've accomplished.
    Maggie Tu · M.S. Data Science, Vanderbilt University · GNTC Summit Connection
  • Shakita Trigg was engaging and authentic. I love the MindVelocity concepts—See, Score, Scale, and Sustain.
    Attendee · AI Insights Summit · May 2026
  • It is important to put thought and preparation into prompting before using AI. That saves both time and money.
    Attendee · AI Insights Mastery Summit · July 2026
  • Shakita, it was an absolute pleasure having you at the Summit! Thank you so much for investing your time and expertise into our community.
    Katie Hundt · Event Manager, Greater Nashville Technology Council · GNTC Summit Organizer
  • Listen to Shakita before you write your next prompt. You will thank me.
    Attendee · AI Insights Mastery Summit · July 2026
  • Excellent presentation, Shakita Trigg. I will definitely continue following you and your progress.
    Attendee · AI Insights Mastery Summit · July 2026
Portrait of Shakita Trigg, founder of Aligned Strategy Partners

Meet Shakita Trigg

Fortune 100 rigor, Main Street focus.

Shakita Trigg is an AI-driven product leader, strategic integrator, and transformation catalyst. After more than 20 years leading enterprise technology and transformation across UPS, FedEx, and Amazon, she now brings Fortune 100 operating rigor to owner-led businesses.

Through Aligned Strategy Partners, she helps leaders identify where time and money are leaking, build accountable AI systems that correct those leaks, and train their teams so the transformation lasts.

  • ●20+ years of enterprise technology leadership
  • ●UPS • FedEx • Amazon
  • ●Global launches across 34 countries
  • ●Founder of Aligned Strategy Partners
  • ●Creator of Don’t Automate Pretty Garbage™
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