For Jocelyn Wyatt, entrepreneurship and saving the world are not mutually exclusive. Over the past two decades, she’s helped to create a more equitable, just, and humane society. A social innovation leader, humanitarian, and entrepreneurial executive, Wyatt has honed a multifaceted skillset that has allowed her to enforce change across the public, private, and nonprofit spheres.
The founder and former CEO of nonprofit design studio IDEO.org, Wyatt, spent a decade leading a global team with offices from San Francisco to Nairobi. She tackled major social issues, such as women’s financial literacy, criminal justice reform, refugee aid, and health equity. In 2021, Alight (formerly known as the American Refugee Committee), an organization that provides critical care to four million people across the globe annually, named Wyatt their new CEO.
In 2023, Alight provided life-saving medicines, gender-based violence prevention, clean water, sanitation, and hygiene education to millions of needy people. “With 82 million refugees and displaced people worldwide, the opportunity to co-create new solutions with communities is more critical today than ever before,” stated Wyatt upon becoming Alight’s CEO. “Alight strives to rethink the status quo and help transform the narrative of the world’s displaced by including diverse and varied voices within the organization.”
