Svetlana Makarova is an AI strategist, product leader at Mayo Clinic, and founder of Spark Change, helping individuals and organizations adopt AI with clarity, confidence, and measurable impact. With over a decade of experience across healthcare, tech, and innovation, she has led enterprise-scale AI initiatives that support over 90 medical specialties and impact tens of thousands of clinicians and patients. Her work focuses on building intelligent systems that streamline clinical workflows while preserving what makes healthcare profoundly human. Svetlana has co-authored peer-reviewed research on large language models and clinical decision support systems, and she speaks regularly at global conferences, including the American Telehealth Association, AI Summit, Applied AI Summit (John Snow Labs), among others. A passionate educator, she teaches executive AI strategy at NextMBA alongside Seth Godin, James Clear, and Brian Tracy, and mentors founders at Cornell University. She holds degrees in Biochemistry and Psychology, an MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler, and is a Doctor of Engineering candidate in AI/ML at George Washington University. Through her work, she is shaping the next era of responsible, scalable, and human-centered AI.