John Winsor

Athlete, Blogger, Change Agent, Entrepreneur, Idea generator, Parent, Photographer, Social entrepreneur, World traveler, Writer/Editor

John Winsor, Founder and Chairman of Open Assembly, is an entrepreneur, thought leader, and global authority on open talent and open innovation and a 6-time author. His newest book, Open Talent: Leveraging The Global Workforce to Solve Your Biggest Challenges, is being published in the fall of 2023 by Harvard Business Press. John’s ideas, expressed through his writing, speaking, and the companies he’s built, have placed him at the intersection of innovation, disruption and storytelling. “John Winsor is a brilliant founder and visionary who has a deep understanding of the cultural significance and opportunity of digital disruption,” says David Jones, former CEO of Havas and Havas Worldwide, the world’s sixth-largest advertising holding company. John is currently a Visiting Executive at Harvard Business School, Executive-in-residence at HBS’s Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) and founder and Chairman of Open Assembly, a company that provides a platform, content, community, and strategic advising for organizations, people and platforms to co-create the future of work. Prior to this, John became the chief innovation officer of Havas, when Havas purchased his open advertising agency, Victors & Spoils, in 2015. Winsor founded V&S after introducing the advertising world to the practice of co-creation in his role as vice president and executive director of strategy and innovation at Crispin, Porter + Bogusky. Winsor had merged his company Radar Communications, the world’s leading open strategy and research company, with CP+B back in 2007. Other companies Winsor founded include Sports & Fitness publishing, sold to Conde Nast, and the Gravity Games, sold to NBC. Winsor is a world traveler who enjoys cycling, surfing, extreme skiing, and mountain and rock climbing. He and his family base out of Boulder, Colorado.

Surfing, Climbing, Skiing, my family.

It's the end of the age of scarcity and the beginning of the age of abundance. Leadership needs to change.

Co-creation, Crowdsourcing, Entrepeneurship, Future of Work, Innovation, Product Innovation