Kate O'Neill

Kate O'Neill is an award-winning author, business strategist, and one of the world's leading thinkers on technology and human experience. Named to the Thinkers50 global ranking of top management thinkers in 2025, she blends intellectual depth with practical insight on how technology should serve humanity.

Her six books include What Matters Next (2025), named to the Thinkers50 Best New Management Books list; Tech Humanist (2018); A Future So Bright (2021); and Pixels and Place (2016).

Her insights have been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and WIRED. She has appeared on NPR and the BBC, and participated in United Nations AI Advisory Body conversations on global AI governance.

As founder and CEO of KO Insights, she advises Google, IBM, Microsoft, the United Nations, Harvard, and Yale. She was one of the first 100 employees at Netflix and founded the analytics firm [meta]marketer.

Kate writes with clarity and nuance to help leaders build a future where technology amplifies human potential.