Jack Wilkinson

Background

About Jack Wilkinson

I’m Jack, an innovation strategist and design futurist. I am currently a Senior Director of Design Strategy at Jam3, a global experience design agency where I lead research, strategy, and the design of innovative experiences and new offerings for global brands including EA, Adidas, Google, PepsiCo, VISA, and Diageo. During my time, the company doubled in size and recently won 2020 Digital Innovation Agency of the Year. I co-founded the Design Futures Initiative and now sit on their board. DFI's mission is to spread speculative design and futures-oriented creative practices. We do this through our annual conference, PRIMER, and our international network of meet-ups, Speculative Futures. Most recently I have designed a curriculum to teach Design Futuring in partnership with the Kedge Futures School. Formerly, I was a Lead Design Strategist at the Future Company where I led projects for system transformation and social impact. While there, I helped launch the National Innovation Service. I received my MFA in Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons School of Design. After graduating, I continued at Parsons, teaching design research, sustainable business strategy and systems-thinking in the Strategic Design and Management program. Outside of my work in strategy and design, I am an avid traveller, a trained chef and occasionally I moonlight as a stand-up comic.