Robyn Bolton is the Founder & Chief Navigator at MileZero, a consultancy that helps leaders turn uncertainty into competitive advantage and growth. She is also the author of Unlocking Innovation: A Leader’s Guide for Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results (2025, Page Two) and a professor at Boston College and The Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Before founding MileZero, she was a Partner at Innosight, the innovation and growth strategy firm founded by Clayton Christensen, and a Manager at the Boston Consulting Group. She began her career at Procter & Gamble, where she helped develop and launch Swiffer and Swiffer WetJet.
She earned her MBA at Harvard Business School and graduated from Miami University (OH), cum laude with University Honors. Her articles on innovation have appeared in Fast Company, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and Harvard Business Review Online. Her perspective has been featured in The New York Times and NPR’s Marketplace.
As trends around expanded decision-making ecosystems, consumer empowerment, data and intelligence, and economic uncertainty become everyday realities, the need for medical device companies to rethink and expand their business models becomes more urgent.