Where the best light hits
In traditional Scots, a winnock is a window — a "wind-eye." The winnock-bunker was the seat by the glass where the best light fell, kept for the conversations that mattered most. That is the name, and the space we try to create: not answers handed down, but the room and the rigour for leaders to see clearly and agree on what they are looking at.
Why Winnocks
Thirty years managing change, as a consultant and then as a founding executive inside an innovation centre, kept bringing me back to the same problem: leaders and teams who believe they are aligned, and find out far later that they weren't.
I saw it in different forms. Senior leaders stepping into roles with nobody to think them through with. Leadership teams that were really a group of individuals, each owning their own area. Strategies that were announced rather than shared. Each was usually treated on its own, by different people, as if it were unrelated to the others.
What I felt was missing was a practice that works with all three, the individual, the team and the strategy, and understands the pressures on the people involved from having been in their position. I started Winnocks to provide it.
— Luca Corradi, Founder and Managing Director
Who you'd work with
Winnocks works with a network of independent associates. For each engagement, we bring together the people whose experience fits it best.
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Luca Corradi
Founder · Aberdeen
Thirty years leading change, first as a consultant at Accenture, where he became a Managing Director, then as a founding executive and Chief Technology Officer at the Net Zero Technology Centre. He brings a practical understanding of how leaders, teams and strategy interact under pressure, a long-range view from leading strategic foresight on climate change, the energy transition and technology, and board experience from both sides of the table.
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Michael Langer
Associate · New York City
Twenty-five years coaching senior leaders and leadership teams across the United States, Europe and Asia, including eight years in China, with leaders at organizations such as Anthropic, Apple, Deloitte, Meta, Microsoft and Samsung. He brings a close understanding of how leaders and teams think, communicate and decide under pressure, a grounding in negotiation and conflict from his work with Vantage Partners, founded out of the Harvard Negotiation Project, and experience helping groups that read the same situation differently agree how to work together.
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Associate
Profile coming soon.
Our coaches work to recognised professional codes of ethics, including the Global Code of Ethics for Coaches, Mentors and Supervisors.
Winnocks always keeps room to coach a leader of a charity or not-for-profit organisation without charge. If you lead one and it would help, get in touch.
Every engagement starts with a conversation
Around 30 minutes, to understand what you need and whether we can help.