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Robert C. Wolcott

Co-Founder and Chairman, The World Innovation Network

Robert explores business, leadership and humanity in our technological age.He loves engaging with people envisioning and creating the future, as well as exploring how technology will change business, society and the experience of being human. Robert is a Clinical Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and the co-founder and lead for the KIN, a community of innovation leaders from all six inhabited continents. Robert is also the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Clareo, a growth strategy consultancy serving global corporations, and an active angel investor in companies such as Indiegogo, Lumni, Page Vault, Magic Cube, SA Ignite, ClearCare Online (exited to Battery Ventures) and international art show, EXPO Chicago.

Relations & Society

Seeing unimaginable futures

How can we characterize our realities in a foundationless, limitless universe?

by Robert C. Wolcott

Relations & Society

The courage to face change

Co-founder and chairman of The World Innovation Network (TWIN) Global discusses the importance of connecting in moments of adversity.

by Robert C. Wolcott

Tech Perspectives

Artificial Intelligence, collective cerebella, attention and our future

If humanity is to thrive in the coming age of the automation, the mediator between head and hands must be the heart.

by Robert C. Wolcott

Organizations

Speed is not a strategy

Speed is a great thing unless you’re moving in the wrong directions. Understandably, business leaders have become obsessed with moving fast.

by Robert C. Wolcott

Tech Perspectives

Blockchain, Burning Man and the future of governance

The world is at a critical junction: we're experiencing the failure of many institutions of industrial democracy, and the rise of a more decentralized system. Theorist and entrepreneur, John Clippinger, discusses open sector phenomena and how it presents new opportunities and threats for traditional organizations, as well as for transforming governance.

by Robert C. Wolcott

Tech Perspectives

How supply chains are changing

New technologies push the production and provision of products and services ever closer to the moment of the demand. Robert Walcott, Clinical Professor at Kellogg School of Management, sits down and explains what he calls "Proximity" and how supply chains are undergoing a momentous change in some parts of the world.

by Robert C. Wolcott

Relations & Society

Hackers, empathy and neuroscience

According to Neuroscientist Moran Cerf, artists, hackers, and investors have something in common: the ability to tap into someone else's brain.

by Robert C. Wolcott

Humanities Studies

Laziness, technology and brain-scanning a billion people

The calculus gave us a new way to look at the world, and we emerged as a different species.

by Robert C. Wolcott

Tech Perspectives

The post-virtual world: Invisible interfaces and our experience of reality

As the distinction between real and virtual is fading faster than we expected, we have to reconsider our notion of reality, and how we relate to it.

by Robert C. Wolcott

Relations & Society

Doubt the past, believe for the future

by Robert C. Wolcott

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