extending soccer's reach beyond the pitch
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In 2008, I published my first book, THE COLLABORATOR: Discover Soccer as a Metaphor for Global Business Leadership. In 2009, it won the AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARD, Bronze Medal - in the category, International Business / Globalization! At the time I was serving as VP, Human Resources for a manufacturing 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 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 his journey to become a collaborative leader. Game of Teams (Second Printing) won the 2025 AXIOM Business Book Award, Silver Medal - Business Stories & Fables 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.
unlock The Collaboration-Code !
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.