Dr. J.J. Walcutt

Keynote Speaker, Leadership Expert

Dr. J.J. Walcutt is a scientist, innovator, and learning engineer that specializes in strategic development and reform across education, military, and government. She has just finished working with the largest university system in the U.S. to build a culture of data-informed decision making across the enterprise and with the U.S. Air Force to design a data-driven, interoperable knowledge management and outreach system for modeling and simulation. Dr. Walcutt has also recently completed a one-year sabbatical to tour the nation and study the connections between citizen innovation, government, and politics. On this tour, she traveled to all 50 states, interviewed Americans and experts in major issue areas, and used these data to create a National Readiness Blueprint. Her results have also been published in a full-length book. Prior to her tour, she served in the U.S. Government as the Director of Innovation at the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative under the Office of the Secretary of Defense and as a Human Innovation Fellow under the Office of Personnel Management.