Jocelyn Wyatt

Jocelyn Wyatt

Jocelyn Wyatt leads IDEO’s Social Innovation domain, which she has grown during the past two and a half years. Jocelyn’s career has focused on building social enterprises and advising businesses in the developing world, using the market to create social change.

At IDEO, Jocelyn has brought a business perspective to a variety of social impact projects with clients including Rockefeller Foundation, Kickstart, Acumen Fund, and Gates Foundation. Jocelyn’s projects have included strategy, product design, service design, and software design and have taken her to Ghana, India, Japan, and the UK. Jocelyn also teaches social enterprise at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

Prior to joining IDEO in October 2007, Jocelyn worked in Kenya as an Acumen Fund fellow with an agro-pharmaceutical company involved in the production of malaria treatments. Jocelyn served as VisionSpring’s Interim Country Director in India and helped increase the distribution of low-cost reading glasses to the urban and rural poor. Additionally, Jocelyn worked in international training, project management, and business development at Chemonics International, a contractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Jocelyn received an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management and a BA in Anthropology from Grinnell College. 

Topics Jocelyn speaks on:

  • Design for Community
  • Design for Social Impact
  • Human-Centered Design
  • Innovation Strategy
  • Systems Design

Roles beyond IDEO:

Catapult Design Advisory Board Member
Aspen Institute First Movers Fellow
Steelcase Green Giant

Speaking engagements:

September 2009, “Business Innovation Factory,” Providence, RI, storyteller

2009, “Innovation through Design,” Future Trends Forum in Madrid
Watch the video here.

June 2009, National Conference on Volunteering and Service, San Francisco, CA, panelist

May 2009, "Innovative Approaches to Increase Effectiveness and Social Impact," Council on Foundations annual conference, Atlanta, GA

March 2009, “Designing Partnerships,” Skoll World Forum, Oxford, UK

February 2009, "Growth of Design," Design Next—Inspiring Transformation, Pune, India

November 2008, “Design for Social Impact,” Better World by Design, Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

November 2008, “Social Intrapreneurship” and “The Business of Low Cost Computing in the Developing World,” Net Impact, Philadelphia, PA

October 2008, “Capital Collaboration,” Social Capital Markets, San Francisco, CA

May 2008, “Social Intrapreneurship,” SustainAbility, San Francisco, CA

March 2008, “Empathy as a Tool for Social Impact,” Skoll World Forum, Oxford UK

November 2007, “User Driven Opportunities for Base of the Pyramid Initiatives,” Base of the Pyramid Learning Lab, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Published works:

2010, “The Power of Global Development,” interview in the International Trade Forum

2010, “Generation Y Dream Jobs,” interview in BNET

2009, “Design Thinking for Social Innovation,” Stanford Social Innovation Review

2009, “Social Capital Markets 2009: Disruptive Innovation is not just the Technology,” NextBillion

2008, “Design for Social Impact” How-to Guide and Workbook

November 2008, "Better World by Design Conference," nextbillion.net

October 2008, "Social Capital Markets: Design in the Developing World," nextbillion.net

August 2008, "Design for Social Impact", socialedge.org

June 2008, "Design for Social Impact - What Does It Mean and Why Should We Care?" nextbillion.net

November 2007, "Learning Humility at the BoP Learning Lab," nextbillion.net

August 2007, "Jocelyn Wyatt - Kenya," socialedge.org