Darcy Stallings Winslow, Founder

DSW Collective, LLC, Designs for a Sustainable World

Darcy Winslow has been a pioneer and active practitioner of sustainability frameworks and principles, exploring and experimenting with the application of these to all aspects of business. Darcy worked at Nike, Inc. for over 20 years and held several senior management positions within the business.

Integrating Sustainability into the Business. In 1999, Darcy Winslow spearheaded a major sustainability initiative at Nike to ensure that the creation of the world’s most recognizable brand of athletic-wear was also the most socially responsible and environmentally friendly. Darcy Winslow is one of the foremost hands-on experts on the process of steering a large and successful company toward more environmental and financial sustainability.

Sustainability from the Top Down. Winslow is an Executive-in-Residence and Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Program Director for Willamette University’s Sustainable Enterprise Program, and the founder of Designs for a Sustainable World Collective, LLC, a firm that focuses on the development of practical yet aggressive strategies for organizations to create and adopt more sustainable and ultimately regenerative business practices. In addition, she is an Adjunct Faculty member with the Center for Creative Leadership.

Sustainable Inspiration. Winslow participated in the 2009 Inspire Antarctic Expedition, hosted by British Petroleum and led by polar explorer, Robert Swan, and returned in the spring of 2010 as part of 2041’s Leadership On The Edge program. She played a vital role in helping shape the program activities and bringing depth and experience to the Climate Change dialogue and vulnerability of natural resources and ecosystems. The expedition engaged climate scientists, business leaders, youth leaders, and polar experts to collaborate in unprecedented ways to understand the roles we play as citizens, members of corporations or universities, and community leaders.

Winslow received her BS in exercise science and MS in exercise physiology and biomechanics, and is a 2003 graduate of the Stanford Executive Program. She currently serves on the Board of Advisors for NorthWest Earth Institute and as a Technical Advisor to the Oregon Innovation Council; the Board of Directors for Portland Oregon Sustainability Institute, Greenopolis, The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education, and the Council for Responsible Sport. She is an active member of the Society for Organizational Learning and Sustainability Consortium and was recently named one of the inaugural Pivotal Leaders, a new Portland, OR-based network of cleantech business leaders for 2010.

She is a lifelong athlete and enjoys traveling the world.