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John Winsor
John Winsor is a business owner, writer and speaker about the future of work, open innovation, crowdsourcing and the human cloud.

Background
John was born on September 17, 1959 in Canton, Illinois. He grew up in Canton and earned a bachelor’s degree from [|Colorado College] and an MBA from the Daniels College of Business at the [|University of Denver].

Business Ventures
Winsor was a journalist and built a magazine publishing company devoted to sports, including mountain biking, in-line skating and extreme skiing. In 1990, he acquired the rights to publish, Women's Sports & Fitness. Within three years, he launched several other titles and events, including [|The Gravity Games]. He sold the business to [|Conde Nast] in 1998.

In 1998, he founded Radar Communications, a company based on co-creation – with [|Nike] as its first client – and sold it to Crispin Porter + Bogusky in 2007.

From 2007- 2009 Winsor was Vice President and Executive Director of Strategy and Innovation at Crispin Porter + Bogusky, helping the company incorporate co-creation in their business model. While working there, CP+B become the most awarded advertising agency in the world in 2008 and 2009.

In 2009, John founded Victors & Spoils, a creative advertising agency built on crowdsourcing principles and, in 2011, a business named to Advertising Age’s “Agency A-List 10 to Watch” list and Mashable’s Top 5 Digital Agencies. In 2009 he sold majority ownership of Victors & Spoils to Havas becoming their global Chief Innovation Officer, working with David Jones to reinvent a global holding company through open principles.

In 2012, when Havas purchased Victors & Spoils and Winsor became the chief innovation officer at Havas.

John is currently the founder and CEO of Open Assembly, a company that focuses on supporting the cultural shift toward utilizing open strategies and working with organizations, digital platforms and people to co-create the future of work.

Winsor has been a founding investor in the Boulder Rock Club, one of the first rock climbing Gyms in the US and [|NAU clothing]. He was also a board member of [|Black Diamond Equipment]. In the non-profit arena Winsor spends his time as a board member of the Access Fund and [|Boulder Community Health]. He is also a former board member of the [|American Mountain Guide Association].

Speaking
Winsor is a frequent industry speaker on topics like future of work, the human cloud co-creation, disruption, crowdsourcing and open innovation. He primarily speaks at crowdsourcing conferences and [|TED X series].

Writing
His books include:
 * "Baked In" 2009  a bestseller, was named an award winner in the marketing category for the 2009 800-CEO-Read Business Book Awards.


 * “Flipped: How Bottom-Up Co-Creation is Replacing Top-Down Innovation" 2009


 * “Spark: Be more Innovative through Co-Creation" 2006


 * "Beyond the Brand: Why Engaging the Right Customers is Essential to Winning in Business,” 2004  where he coined the term co-creation


 * Winsor is an advisor to the Interactive Advertising Bureau and the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School. He has been featured in two Harvard Business School case studies on starting an “open” company and how an “open” company can affect the trajectory of a larger closed system in Havas.
 * Winsor is also a regular contributor to the [|Harvard Business Review], [|The Guardian], [|Forbes] and [|Digiday].

Passions
Winsor is a world traveler, athlete and father of two boys. He enjoys cycling, extreme skiing, surfing and skiing, mountain and rock climbing. He has skied the last unslied 14er in Colorado and put up several new lines. He has surfed some the top waves in the word in [|Tavarua], Cloudbreak. He also was an exhibiting fine arts photographer. Among his accomplishments, he set the world record for the ascent and round-trip of Kilimanjaro.

Winsor is the father of two boys who he loves to travel with and take on adventures around the world, one of his favorites being surfing in Mexico.