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Robert Wolcott is a teacher of Executive Education at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, formerly visiting professor at the Keio Business School in Japan, and won Teacher of the Year four times in a row at Kellogg. Mr. Wolcott serves on the board of the Digital Advisory for ZF, the German global industrial enterprise; he is a member of the Open Innovation Lab of Norway. among his credits are companies such as and H-Farm, a digital innovation ecosystem in Italy, and Clareo, a consultancy service to executives at companies such as Exelon, BHP Billiton, Castrol, Johnson Controls, Owens Corning, and many others.
He was the Co-founder and Executive Director of the Kellogg Innovation Network (KIN), a Clinical Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and formerly a visiting professor at the Keio Business School (Japan). He is managing partner at Clareo, a global growth strategy consultancy.
In 2003, Wolcott co-founded the KIN with Kellogg Marketing professor Mohan Sawhney to provide business leaders with platform to share ideas, challenges and solutions. Since 2008, the KIN Global conference has expanded the community to leaders in government, non-profits, academia, the arts and defense.
Wolcott’s book, Grow From Within: Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation (McGraw-Hill), co-authored with Michael Lippitz, provides frameworks and tools for new business design and ongoing internal innovation programs. His work has been featured in several publications, including MIT Sloan Management Review, strategy+business, The Wall Street Journal, Advertising Age, BusinessWeek, The Financial Times and The New York Times. Rob is a frequent speaker on innovation, corporate entrepreneurship and global prosperity at events worldwide.
Wolcott has served as an advisor to NORDEN, the Nordic Innovation Center, Nordic Council of Ministers and on the advisory board of GE’s Innovation Accelerator. He is also an active angel investor in enterprises such as crowdfunding leader Indiegogo, student loan innovator Lumni and healthcare data and analytics providers SA Ignite and ClearCare Online.
Wolcott has been awarded “Teacher of the Year” from Kellogg’s EMBA program in 2013, 2014 and 2015. He holds a BA in European and Chinese History and an MS and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from Northwestern University.
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“Rob is a terrific leader and driver of innovation. He is superb at bringing together individuals with diverse backgrounds and extracting from such meetings innovative approaches and solutions to a broad spectrum of business and/or social challenges. Above all, Rob is a person of outstanding character, generosity, sensitivity and kindness. I am proud to have worked with him for over a decade.”
“We hired Rob and his firm, Clareo Partners, to help us think through a concept around redefining a piece of our core business. Rob (and his partner Allan) did a great job of thinking through how we might reposition our offering from product focused to solution focused. They created a vision for how and why we should do this, and created a financial model that helped us understand the threshold for success. Their work was actionable and compelling. We are currently working with Rob and Clareo Partners on another project through our parent company, The Duchossois Group. This project is focused around implementing some of the insights from Rob’s (and Mike Lippitz’s) book “Grow From Within” to create the infrastructure to build new businesses at the interfaces of our current businesses. Rob did a great job of communicating his vision for “intreprenuership” to the senior management of our parent company.”
“Rob’s work in understanding innovation and how it happens within large companies is unparalleled. Rob works hard at understanding the practicalities of innovation in corporations instead of just concentrating on academic issues, making his work useful and readily applied to real world situations. I highly recommend Rob and the Kellogg Innovation Network as a whole for anyone wishing to increase their company’s ability to innovate AND bring their innovations to market.”
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