Jill Lyons is a strategic creative operations leader, award-winning executive producer and a writer. She currently leads creative operations at Maximum Effort, Ryan Reynolds’ creative engine. 

Throughout her career, she has held numerous executive positions including EVP of Delivery at Hawkeye Agency, a Publicis company, Head of Creative Agency Operations for Allstate, and Vice-President of Business Operations & Production at Epsilon Agency. Additionally, 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 and productivity. In 2017 she was named to AdWeek’s “Young Influentials” list.