Winnie de Loayza’s life’s work is helping people create dynamic organizations and communities. This can only be done when people who participate in them grow beyond their “potential,” and then grow some more. Oftentimes people maintain beliefs and practices that bind them in a narrow set of possibilities. They get caught up in their routines and so-called “truths,” never reaching a stage of alchemy for their enterprises.
Could Gandhi have transformed India without breaking the boundaries of his beliefs about the potential of his nation? Could the Apartheid have fallen with old thinking about the ability of Africans to rule a modern nation? Would the Civil Rights Movement have progressed without Martin Luther King’s dream? These dreams could have been “raisins in the sun” without the beliefs and actions necessary to drive change. Winnie wants to help people dream about their possibilities and help them to do the hard work of making those dreams realities.
Winnie has worked in a variety of fields including manufacturing, financial services, pharmaceuticals, electronic gaming, government and adult education. Corning, Incorporated, Activision Blizzard, and Quest Diagnostics are among her current clients. She also has experience overseas in China, India, Taiwan, England, Germany, Spain and Greece. Winnie was awarded a Master of Science degree in Curriculum and Instruction (1975) and a Doctorate in Educational Policies, Programs and Institutions (1978) by the State University of New York at Albany.
Winnie will lovingly engage you in conversations so deep and challenging that your very identity might be forced to step up to the next level of performance. She will help you have the difficult conversations with yourself, your board, and your staff that you need to have in order to transform hope into reality.
