AUTHOR, WRITER, BLOGGER, LEADER & TEAM DEVELOPMENT ADVOCATE, SOCCER ENTHUSIAST
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My passion for leadership and team development began early in my career after being introduced to Ken Blanchard's books and programs. Over the years, I learned as much as I could about leaders in business, sports, politics, and even on the battlefield. Learning lessons from people like Nelson Mandela, Colin Powell, John Wooden, and others was important because they demonstrated leadership in the field.
My favorite leader is Nelson Mandela. He was an optimist with a vision for replacing apartheid with democracy in South America. He was also an innovative leader who saw the value of sport to leverage peoples' emotions, demonstrating a collaborative mind-set in winning people to his cause.
Throughout my career I often found myself in situations where I was trying to persuade people to move from win-lose scenarios to win-win scenarios. At some point in my journey I decided to improve my tactics for generating win-win solutions and started writing...marrying my passion for leadership/team development with my passion for soccer. This led to writing my first book, The Collaborator: Discover Soccer as a Metaphor for Global Business Leadership.
The rest is history as we all like to say.
In 2008, I published my first book, THE COLLABORATOR: Discover Soccer as a Metaphor for Global Business Leadership. At the time I was serving as VP, Human Resources for a metals company in Portland, Oregon. My goal at the time was to come up with a better way for people to effectively collaborate on teams and produce win-win outcomes.
In 2014, I left the corporate world and started my consulting business with a focus on collaborative leadership development and coaching. This led to co-developing THE COLLABORATION GAME, in 2016, designed to help people accelerate their development of a collaborative mind-set and skill set to effectively collaborate..
In 2018, I was asked by the Association for Talent Development (ATD) to serve as one of five contributing authors. for their new book, FOCUS ON THEM: Become the Manager Your People Need You to Be. I wrote Chapter Three, Collaboration, for their book. Note, through ATD's management research, the ACCEL Model was developed identifying Collaboration as one of five key skills for front-line managers to learn for today's changing workplace.
In 2021, I published my latest book, GAME OF TEAMS: Discover How to Become a Collaborative Leader, which is a sequel to my first book. In this book, the importance of coaching is promoted to support collaborative leadership and team development. Written as a business allegory, readers follow the exploits of a newly promoted manager who learns, with the help of an external team coach, how to kick-start her journey to become a collaborative leader. His book (Second Printing) won the 2025 AXIOM Business Book Award, Silver Medal Winner - Business Fable category!
Prior to that, Winsor wrote articles for the National Soccer Coaches Association of America's magazine, Soccer Journal, in 1997 -1998 and The Journal of the Human Resources Planning Society (2005).
As a team development advocate and soccer enthusiast, he continues to write blog posts on collaborative leadership and team development.
Develop and lead with a collaborative mind-set is Step 1 in the process of discovering the code. Step 2 is to develop and apply a collaborative skill set. Combined, they provide a developmental pathway to unlock the collaboration-code to produce results.
SAMPLE BOOK CHAPTERS - ARTICLES - PAPERS
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