Bill O'Connor

Bill O'Connor is the Founder of The Innovation Agency, a leading innovation consultancy based in San Francisco/Silicon Valley, and a faculty member at Singularity University. Over the past decade, Bill has conducted more than 600 innovation engagements with 250+ corporations across 50+ countries, working alongside 8,000+ professionals, 4,000+ executives and C-suite leaders, and more than 25 CEOs. His client roster includes some of the world's most influential organizations, including Google, Apple, Tesla, Nike, Airbnb, IDEO, Facebook, GE, IKEA, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the World Bank, where he helps teams strengthen their innovation mindsets, toolsets, and skillsets. Bill's thought leadership has been featured in The Economist, Forbes, Fast Company, and the MIT Press Innovations journal, and he has collaborated with world-class academic institutions including Stanford, Berkeley, Oxford, Wharton, INSEAD, and Princeton through research projects, keynote speeches, and innovation workshops. He is currently leading research in partnership with the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm on how Nobel Prize Laureates innovate, with 11 Laureates interviewed to date. Bill also serves on the advisory boards of three disruptive startups and lives in the mountains just north of San Francisco with his wife Andrea and their dog Zinzino.