It’s 9 a.m., day two of Net Impact. I grab my compostable coffee cup and head into the session on social intrapreneurship. The panel focuses on corporate changemakers who work inside businesses to deliver innovative market solutions to the world’s toughest social and environmental challenges. Among the panelists is Acumen Fund Fellow alumna Jocelyn Wyatt who currently serves as the Head of Social Impact and Business Factors at IDEO, a global design consultancy.
Jocelyn met IDEO during her Acumen Fellowship while visiting VisionSpring in India. IDEO was interested in bringing in someone to build out the firm’s social impact work, so she wrote her own job description – knowing nothing about design and having never visited the firm itself – was made an offer, and then...
Editor’s note: Jocelyn Wyatt leads the Design for Social Impact initiative at IDEO (a global design consultancy). Prior to IDEO, Jocelyn worked as an Acumen Fund fellow in Kenya and served as Interim Country Director for VisionSpring in India. Jocelyn has an MBA from Thunderbird and a BA in Anthropology from Grinnell College. She blogs (periodically) on www.jocelynwyatt.com.By Jocelyn WyattFully admitting my bias here, I did think the Design in the Developing World panel was an especially interesting conversation between a top-notch set of designers and practitioners. Caroline Balerin launched the panel with the question "What would it look like to design for the other 90%?" I fully expected the panelists, who have traditionally designed products, to respond with something...