Cornelia Oppliger is a dynamic financial technology executive and leadership expert specializing in digital transformation and shared leadership. She currently serves as the Head of Digital Banking and Channel Management at Valiant Bank, where she is responsible for leading the department and driving the development and implementation of their digital channel strategy. Deeply embedded in the Swiss financial technology ecosystem, she also serves as a Board Member for Swiss Fintech Innovations (SFTI) in Zürich, focusing on board governance and digital strategy.

As a passionate entrepreneur and advocate for modern workplace methodologies, she is the Co-Founder of Leadership Buddy, a platform delivering leadership-as-a-service solutions. Prior to these roles, she ran her own consulting practice as the Founder of connected-dots.ch, providing agile coaching, strategic sparring, and top-sharing/co-leadership transformation frameworks. Her foundational enterprise experience includes serving as the IT People Lead (Co-Lead) at Die Mobiliar in Bern, where she pioneered human-centric IT structures and shared leadership models.