PROFILE - Jocelyn Wyatt
Jocelyn Wyatt
Social Impact + Business Factors, IDEO
Jocelyn Wyatt Jocelyn Wyatt leads IDEO's efforts in integrating design for social impact and business factors. Jocelyn's career has focused on building social enterprises and advising businesses in the developing world. She is passionate about using the market to create social change and believes that design is an effective tool to address some of the world's largest problems.
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, and software design and have taken her to Ghana, India, Japan, and the UK.
Prior to joining IDEO in October 2007, Jocelyn was selected as an Acumen Fund fellow and worked in Kenya for eight months with an agro-pharmaceutical company involved in the production of malaria treatments. Jocelyn served as Scojo Foundation'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 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. Jocelyn Wyatt leads IDEO's efforts in integrating design for social impact and business factors. Jocelyn's career has focused on building social enterprises and advising businesses in the developing world. She is passionate about using the market to create social change and believes that design is an effective tool to address some of the world's largest problems.
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, and software design and have taken her to Ghana, India, Japan, and the UK.
Prior to joining IDEO in October 2007, Jocelyn was selected as an Acumen Fund fellow and worked in Kenya for eight months with an agro-pharmaceutical company involved in the production of malaria treatments. Jocelyn served as Scojo Foundation'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 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.
