WIN: Women in Innovation

Welcome to our first-ever WIN Wrapped ✨ To all the amazing people in our WIN: Women in Innovation community, we want to say THANK YOU for an incredible 2024. 💛 This year was all about celebrating the collective from our local chapter coffee chats to the record-breaking WIN Awards event. ⚡️ We couldn’t have had such a wonderful influence on women in the innovation world without you, so sit back and take in the top hits from this year. Looking forward to continuing to make an impact in 2025! 💥 P.S. Head over to our Instagram @womenininnovation for a special video message 👀

As in-office mandates continue to make headlines, we've partnered with Convene to interrogate traditional in-person meetings – completely reimagining how we gather at work as innovators. Head over to the WIN blog for our full take on making in-person gatherings as meaningful as ever (and read until the end for a surprise!). ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eNkuP9t3

For the first WIN/WIN episode of 2025 (which happens to be our 125th episode!) we are joined by Frances Schwiep, Partner at Two Sigma Ventures, who is also a master at systems thinking for anything and everything. Tune in to hear Frances’ evolution of her understanding of risk, the importance of independent thinking, and how she applies it as a leader in the innovation and venture capital industry. Links:  * Apple: https://lnkd.in/e9YYg-za  * Spotify: https://lnkd.in/e8mXSaUu Listen for advice on: * The pros and cons of traditional vs. corporate venture capital  * How women can create their own measuring sticks for success * Creating an equitable and strategic investment decision mechanism  * Ways to understand and engage with new technologies and innovations (such as AI) Zoia Kozakov

✨ Join WIN NY's first event of 2025! WIN NY is kicking off the year with Jones Knowles Ritchie on Wednesday, January 22 for a workshop where you'll learn to channel your strengths and values as a way into defining your distinctive personal brand. We're partnering with ex-Nike marketing VP turned executive coach and personal branding expert Pierre-Laurent BAUDEY to guide you through a framework for defining your personal brand and empowering you to continue this important reflective work on your own. ➡️ Grab your spot here – seats are limited! https://lnkd.in/ezPhwiah

📣 San Francisco! Mark your calendars for the first SF Chapter event of 2025 - a workshop with the wonderful Lamiaa Laurène Daif that will change the way you lead, the way you make decisions, and the way you feel about success. 🎟️ Space is limited, so get your ticket now! https://lnkd.in/gFDMA2HM

✨WHEN YOU GIVE, WE ALL WIN ✨ This #GivingTuesday, I’m reflecting on the incredible momentum we’ve built at WIN: Women in Innovation and am seeking support to keep the magic going! Earlier this month, we kicked off a season of gratitude and generosity with our ✨WINsgiving ✨ event. It was a powerful moment to celebrate our progress and rally around the importance of advocating for women in the innovation field. WINsgiving showed us how the brilliance of this community can manifest into something greater—support for women who are breaking barriers, driving innovation, and redefining industries. At WIN, we know giving takes all shapes and sizes, and everyone has a role to play. This #GivingTuesday, here’s how your donation will help bring our mission to life: ✨Strengthen our global community advocating for equity in the innovation industry. ✨Bring women innovation leaders onto the world stage to make an impact. ✨Fund our masterclasses to connect our members with innovation trailblazers. ✨Support our entrepreneurs by increasing the resources they receive to innovate. Every contribution matters—whether big or small, your support fuels our vision for an equitable future. ✨DONATE TO WIN ✨ https://lnkd.in/e_h8wkDT

Last call to join for our final event of the year! Join WIN NY and HUSH this Thursday for a mini-unConference titled "Creating Feminine Spaces." This event will bring together a group of diverse women to discuss the role of The Feminine in both physical and digital spaces. During the evening, participants will be able to join a breakout room of their choice and co-create a perspective on how The Feminine should and will impact the design and experience, architectural development, and urban planning of a diverse variety of spaces. Last call to sign up here: https://lnkd.in/gqpHHTet A big thank you to the HUSH team for their support and collaboration to make this evening possible. HUSH is a design agency focusing on experience design, strategy and placemaking. Its purpose is to influence action and shape behavior through the art of designed space.

NYC! Join us for a ⚡️Special Edition⚡ Coffee Connections held at argodesign's Williamsburg office on Friday, December 6th 9-10:30AM! Come meet members in our community and members of the argodesign team. This event is free and open to all – coffee and pastries will be provided! A big thank you to argodesign for making this connection possible. argodesign is a product design consultancy that believes technology should be beautiful, useful, and invisible. They deliver sophisticated enterprise product strategies and design systems imbued with technology, helping companies better integrate tools of innovation while providing vital context for customers. Please sign up here: https://lnkd.in/gCVeKnjt

And just like that… we are in the holiday season! This is why we are extra excited for this week’s WIN/WIN guest, Stephanie Horton, Senior Director of Global Marketing, Commerce (Shopping/Payments) at Google. As someone at the forefront of connecting advancing technology with consumer shopping habits, Stephanie dives into all of her insights with Zoia Kozakov and shares how she uses cultural relevance to overcome barriers to innovation.  Links:  * Apple: https://lnkd.in/eTSH83XG  * Spotify: https://lnkd.in/exe7YTkM Listen for advice on: * How to tap into team expertise to navigate career changes and pivots * The role of cultural relevance in unlocking a product-market fit  * Using inflection points in industries and companies to build a career in innovation * The ways in which AI can make shopping easier for consumers

Just a little over a week away! Join WIN NY and HUSH for a mini-unConference titled "Creating Feminine Spaces" on Thursday, December 5th. This event will bring together a group of diverse women to discuss the role of The Feminine in both physical and digital spaces. During the evening, participants will be able to join a breakout room of their choice and co-create a perspective on how The Feminine should and will impact the design and experience, architectural development, and urban planning of a diverse variety of spaces. Learn more and sign up here: https://lnkd.in/gqpHHTet A big thank you to the HUSH team for their support and collaboration to make this evening possible. HUSH is a design agency focusing on experience design, strategy and placemaking. Its purpose is to influence action and shape behavior through the art of designed space.