Adjunct Professor of Innovation at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago and Adjunct Professor of Executive Education at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. 2009 – 2019, Wolcott served as Clinical Professor of Innovation at Kellogg. Wolcott won Teacher of the Year from Kellogg's EMBA program in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017.
Co-founder & Chair of TWIN Global, a global community of over 3,000 innovation leaders from over 30 countries and across sectors.
Board member of strategy consultancy Clareo; coaching platform Abroad; and global non-profit HCP Cure Blindness. Advisory board member of the Open Innovation Lab of Norway and many ventures.
Contributor for Forbes on the impact of technology on business, society and humanity. His first book, Grow From Within: Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation (McGraw-Hill, 2010) has been published in Chinese and Japanese. Wolcott's work has appeared in publications such as MIT Sloan Management Review, The Harvard Business Review and The Wall Street Journal.
Active venture investor in over 30 companies, many of which are leading the Proximity revolution.
BA, European and Chinese History; MS, Ph.D., Industrial Engineering & Management Science,
Northwestern University.