{"id":19260,"date":"2025-12-16T10:29:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/events.iofm.com\/conference-spring\/speaker\/luz-batista\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T20:10:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T00:10:39","slug":"luz-batista","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/events.iofm.com\/conference-spring\/speaker\/luz-batista\/","title":{"rendered":"Luz Batista"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am the Director of Global Business Services at Avis Budget Group, where I have the privilege of leading incredible teams across Hungary, Guatemala, Virginia, New Jersey, India, the Philippines, and Mexico. Together, we support a broad range of functions, including Accounts Payable, Licensee and Agency Operations, and Corporate Travel & Expense.<\/p>\n

With more than 15 years at Avis Budget Group, my career has been shaped by a focus on building strong teams and designing processes that make our operations more efficient, connected, and forward-thinking. One of the most rewarding experiences of my journey has been leading the global transformation of our Corporate Travel Program. This end-to-end effort brought together every aspect of travel\u2014launching a single global card program, implementing a new travel management company and platform, updating policy, and introducing AI-driven audit tools. The result was a more transparent, compliant, and employee-friendly travel experience across the organization.<\/p>\n

What motivates me most is creating environments where people feel empowered to innovate, collaborate, and grow. I believe meaningful transformation happens when teams are trusted, supported, and encouraged to challenge the status quo.<\/p>\n

I hold an MBA in Accounting and am a Certified Procure-to-Pay Manager. I am also deeply passionate about mentoring and supporting diversity in leadership, and I was honored to participate in WiHTL\u2019s Get Board Ready Programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","speaker_category":[136,20],"class_list":["post-19260","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","speaker_category-136","speaker_category-speaker-category"],"metadata":{"speaker_id":["b3d38aee-8608-4b2e-b39b-c9120741996e"],"speaker_email_address":["luz.batista@avisbudget.com"],"speaker_first_name":["Luz"],"speaker_last_name":["Batista"],"speaker_full_name":["Luz Batista"],"speaker_company_name":["Avis Budget Group"],"speaker_job_title":["Director of Global Business Services"],"speaker_updated_at":["2026-04-25T00:07:56.956Z"],"speaker_photo_url":["https:\/\/content-cdn.sessionboard.com\/attendee-photo%2F6XOtCxvsSZChgNgwqwmW_default-file-transformed.png"],"_thumbnail_id":["19366"],"speaker_sessions":[19096,19367],"_eael_post_view_count":["364"],"rank_math_internal_links_processed":["1"],"_session_board_event_id":["5937"],"_elementor_page_assets":["a:0:{}"]},"thumbnail":"\"\"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.iofm.com\/conference-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/19260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.iofm.com\/conference-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.iofm.com\/conference-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.iofm.com\/conference-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.iofm.com\/conference-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.iofm.com\/conference-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.iofm.com\/conference-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"speaker_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.iofm.com\/conference-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_category?post=19260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}