Barry O'Reilly

Barry O'Reilly is a business advisor, entrepreneur, and author with extensive experience in business model innovation, product development, organizational design, and culture transformation. O'Reilly's career developed through hands-on roles in business transformation at ThoughtWorks, collaborating with major brands such as British Airways, Barclays, and The Economist. His exposure to large corporations adapting to evolving market conditions and customer needs informed his approach to helping organizations improve their ways of working.

O'Reilly is the co-author of "Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale," part of Eric Ries's Lean Series and recognized by Harvard Business Review as essential reading for CEOs and business leaders. The book has received recognition from The Enterprise Project and has appeared on executive and technology leader reading lists. O'Reilly also authored "Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results," which presents a framework for leaders to move beyond outdated mindsets and behaviors to achieve improved performance. "Unlearn" became a CEO Reads bestseller and was named Business Book of the Year by Soundview Executive Books. In "Artificial Organizations: Build Better Judgement, Speed, and Results With Human and Machine Intelligence," O'Reilly explores the integration of human and machine intelligence in enterprise environments.

In addition to his writing, O'Reilly is a keynote speaker on leadership, innovation, and organizational transformation. He serves as a faculty member at Singularity University, advising and contributing to executive and accelerator programs, and is a contributor to publications including The Economist, Strategy+Business, and MIT Sloan Management Review. O'Reilly is also the founder of ExecCamp, an entrepreneurial program designed to help executives lead cultural change within organizations.

In the venture sector, O'Reilly is co-founder and chief innovation officer at Nobody Studios, an AI-driven venture studio focused on building and launching new companies through venture-speed experimentation. He has served on the boards of several high-growth startups, including AgileCraft, which was acquired by Atlassian. O'Reilly's philosophy—think big, start small, and learn fast—guides his work with Fortune 500 companies and startups in business innovation, digital transformation, and organizational leadership.