Collaborations

Nike:

Nike Darcy Winslow spent 21 years at Nike, in many diverse areas of the business and leading several emerging initiatives that have both expanded and evolved the overall Nike Brand. Following an internship in the Nike Sports Research Lab and writing her thesis (Spectral Analysis of Impact Shock During Running: International Journal of Sport Biomechanics, 1992, Volume 8, Number 4), she began her career performing biomechanical research in the NSRL. For more detail on her experience at Nike, please click here.

Director, Product Testing

Manager, Product Development

Manager, Advanced Product Engineering

Business Re-engineering Team

Global Director, Advanced Research and Development

Global Director, Research, Design, Development, Advanced R&D

General Manager, Sustainable Business Strategies: created the department and developed the 2020 goals for implementation across product creation organization.

General Manager, Global Women’s Footwear: established and led the women’s performance footwear division

General Manager, Global Women’s Fitness – Footwear, Apparel, Equipment: established and led all aspects of Nike’s $1.3B women’s performance business (Stanford University Case Study – “Nike’s Global Women’s Fitness Business: Driving Strategic Integration.”)

Senior Advisor, Nike Foundation

Click here for more information on the Stanford University Case Study.

Co-Lead Category Business Re-alignment

Senior Advisor, Nike Foundation: creates programs and partnerships to empower disadvantaged girls ages 10-19 years old, through poverty alleviation and creating economic livelihood opportunities.

Darcy has been independently consulting with Nike, Inc. since September 2008 on holistic cultural issues and change management.

The Center for Creative Leadership:

Darcy Winslow currently serves as an adjunct faculty member at The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL). CCL is internationally recognized as one of the premier organizations focusing exclusively on leadership education and research, with unparalleled expertise in solving the leadership challenges of individuals and organizations globally. Wondering what creative leadership is? It’s the capacity to think and act beyond the boundaries that limit our effectiveness. CCL believes leaders are made, not born, and that they can adapt and change.

Click here for more information on The Center for Creative Leadership.

MIT:

MIT Sloan School Mgmt Darcy Winslow has served as an Executive-in-Residence and Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management beginning the 2008 Fall Semester. She co-teaches the course Leadership Lab: Leading Sustainable Systems with Wanda Orlikowski and Peter Senge. L-Lab is a unique course at the MIT Sloan School of Management. It blends traditional classroom learning, case studies, workshops, simulations, guest speakers, and projects developed in partnership with host companies. The projects culminate in Sloan’s hallmark Lab experience of a three-week on-site field engagement, during which they apply the unique systems thinking approach they have learned during the course. Additionally, she teaches leadership sessions during the Sloan Innovation Periods.

Click here for more information on MIT’s Sloan School of Management

Willamette University:

Darcy Winslow recently accepted the position of Program Director of the Sustainable Enterprise Certificate Program (SEC) at Willamette University’s Executive Development Center, an extension of the Willamette University’s Atkinson Graduate School of Management, for the 2009-2010 academic year. This Certificate Program takes a unique approach to presenting the interconnectedness of social, economic, and environmental well-being. This is done in a way that will integrate all areas of sustainability by first focusing on the dynamics of complex systems, followed by a practical look at social systems and how the expansion of social well-being ties directly to economic and environmental well-being. She will also be available for promotional speaking and network meetings to promote the program.

Click here for more information on Willamette University’s Sustainable Enterprise Certificate Program.

Click here for more information on Willamette University’s Certificate in Career Management.

Antarctica/2041:

Darcy recently returned from Antarctica, as part of an expedition sponsored by British Petroleum’s Alternative Energy Division and led by Robert Swan and members of his 2041 expedition team. The mission was to empower and inspire expedition members, which included 50 global youth leaders from around the world, to take action regarding climate change and become leaders and advocates for positive change in their workplace and community.

Robert Swan, OBE, is the founder of 2041 and the only person in history to reach both the North and South Poles unaided. This 12-day expedition included 50 students from 20 countries and 30 universities as well as faculty, staff, and BP leaders. Since returning from Antarctica, the expedition members continue to collaborate on a multitude of projects that are having immediate impact around the globe.

In November, 2009, Robert’s 2041 team will be embarking on a celebratory expedition to honor the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Antarctic Treaty.

Click here for more information on 2041.

Click here to see photos from Darcy’s Trip.

Brightworks:

Darcy Winslow has recently joined a small, elite group of sustainability strategists, with Scott Lewis (Brightworks Founder and CEO) as the organizing force. This team assists enterprises of all sizes to uncover and fully maximize their greatest leverage points to achieve holistic sustainability. Brightworks helps organizations succeed by aligning their efforts with basic principles of ecological sustainability: built environment sustainability (LEED, campus and infrastructure), organizational sustainability, and workshops and trainings.

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Click here to read Brightworks Blog.

Society for Organizational Learning:

Darcy Winslow has been involved with the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) since 1999 as part of the founding members (Nike, Inc.) of the Sustainability Consortium. Most recently she has been co-facilitating Leading and Learning for Sustainability workshops with Peter Senge, the founder of SoL and author of The Necessary Revolution, and Sherry Immediato, SoL Managing Director.

Click here for more information on Learning and Leading for Sustainability workshops.

Darcy is also a member of SoL’s Global Evolution, a group of 25 individuals from the SoL global network, selected to explore and collaboratively create the next evolution of the vision, governance, business model and infrastructure for the SoL fractals and initiatives.

Click here for more information on The Society for Organizational Learning.

The Council for Responsible Sport:

In April 2009, Darcy joined the Board of Directors for The Council for Responsible Sport, which was founded in 2007 to develop an independent, comprehensive certification for sustainable athletic events. By defining realistic objectives and providing a framework for achieving them, the Council enables event directors to incorporate environmental and social responsibility into their events while informing consumers which events adhere to these standards.

In December 2008, The Council for Responsible Sport published its State of Sustainability Sport Pilot Program Case Study, which documented 15 sporting events that took place in 2008 and led to the first 11 The Council for Responsible Sport certified events. Moving forward the certification will be utilized as a mechanism to help ensure future generations have the choice to participate in sports as we do today. By identifying responsibly produced events through a common set of standards, marketplace differentiation can occur and consumers can exercise choice and encourage a fundamental shift in the ways we practice sport.

Click here for more information on The Council for Responsible Sport.

Check out CRS most recent press release here.