Please join us for the opening keynote address with Jill Lyons from Maximum Effort.
Jill Lyons is a strategic creative operations leader and award-winning executive producer and writer. Jill currently leads creative operations at Maximum Effort, Ryan Reynolds’ creative engine. Prior, she was EVP of Delivery at Hawkeye Agency, a Publicis company, where she led project management, operations and the activation practices of media, integrated production, enterprise technology, change communications and experiential. Prior to joining Hawkeye, Jill was Head of Creative Agency Operations for Allstate, where she brought order, structure and strategy to the creative process across production, creative and UX teams. Before Allstate, Jill led as VP, Business Operations & Production at Epsilon Agency, where she merged data-driven insights with compelling creative for all clients across all mediums, managed a global team of producers, editors, animators and designers, and led new business operations. For a decade, Jill was part of the legendary team at Harpo Studios, where she wrote and produced dynamic on and off-air promos, integrated marketing and branded entertainment content for OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, The Dr. Oz Show and The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Jill’s a futurist and a thought leader who routinely speaks on DEI, organizational design & change management, creativity & productivity. In 2017 she was named to AdWeek’s “Young Influentials” list.
Jill also writes, produces and (occasionally) performs comedy for the stage and screen, and her work has been featured on secondcitynetwork.com, The Second City, The Den Theatre, and Stage 773.
Born and raised in Chicago, she holds a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from Pepperdine University. She is also a graduate from The Second City Training Center’s comedy writing program. She serves on boards for Chicago Foundation for Women, Safe Families For Children, Camp Tecumseh, and is an advisor for The Juggl. She’s a mom, a yogi, and a lover of a good pun and a growth mindset.