Kate O'Neill (author)
American author and tech consultant
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Kate O'Neill is an American author,[1] tech consultant,[2][3] and one of Netflix's first 100 employees.[4] She is the founder of a tech-consulting firm[5] KO Insights and host of The Tech Humanist Show.[6] O'Neill is a Wired contributing writer[7] and a regular speaker for companies within Silicon Valley.[8] She is recognized by Thinkers50 as one of the top 50 management thinkers in the world.[9]
- Author
- speaker
- consultant
- entrepreneur
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| Born | Park Forest, Illinois, Illinois, U.S. |
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In 2018, O'Neill published her third book,"Tech Humanist:[8] How You Can Make Technology Better for Business and Better for Humans."[1] The following year, O'Neill wrote an article on Wired about the 10-Year-Challenge Meme that went viral on Facebook, where people shared photos comparing their then-and-now photographs.[2]
In 2021, O'Neill published "A Future So Bright: How Strategic Optimism and Meaningful Innovation Can Restore Our Humanity and Save the World." In 2023 it was shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Award in Digital Thinking. [10]
In 2025, O'Neill published "What Matters Next: A Leaders Guide to Making Human-Friendly Tech Decisions in a World That's Moving Too Fast" (Wiley). It was named to the Thinkers50 2025 Best New Management Booklist[11] and shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Award in Digital Thinking.[12] It was also longlisted for the 2025 Porchlight Business Book Awards [13]
In November 2025, O'Neill was named to the Thinkers50, a global ranking of the top 50 management thinkers.[14]
Since 2015 she has lived in New York City.[15]
