Stu Winby
Founder and Executive Managing Partner of Sapience – Silicon Valley
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Biography
Stu Winby is Founder and Executive Managing Partner of Sapience – Silicon Valley, a strategy and organizational consulting firm and also Managing Partner of Innovation Point, a strategic innovation firm - both headquartered in the Silicon Valley. His focus over the last seven years has been in healthcare, working at the CEO, state and national level in healthcare innovation and transformation. In 2010 he was invited to the Whitehouse to share his work and discuss its relevance to other sectors outside of healthcare. Current and recent projects have included various Health Care providers – Sutter, Alegent, Fairview, Christus, etc, and firms outside of healthcare - Cisco, Visa, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Stanford Research International (SRI).
Previous to Sapience and Innovation Point, Stu was Executive Director / General Manager of Strategy and Organization at HP, which included four practice area organizations: Business Strategy Innovation, Organization Architecture and Change, R&D Solutions Lab, and Product Generation Solutions. Prior to this position he managed HP’s Factory of the Future organization. His work at HP has been documented in numerous books, articles and professional journals. Several Harvard Business School Cases have been written on projects he has managed and consulted to, as well as numerous case studies documented by the Conference Board and others.
Before joining HP, Stu was Vice-President for Advisory Services at the American Productivity Center (APC) where he was responsible for organizational strategy and design, productivity management, and organization innovations research and application. Previous to APC, Stu managed Lockheed’s Space Systems Human Factors Engineering Group in socio-technical systems design and implementation – involving space shuttle and space telescope projects.
Stu Winby has also participated in numerous initiatives such the White House Initiative on Productivity and Competitiveness, and the California Governor Workplace forums. He has been an on-going guest lecturer at various Universities such as Stanford, Harvard, MIT, UCLA, Naval Post Graduate School, and on the board for the Center for Effective Organizations at USC in Los Angeles. He also sits on several health care boards.
Stu Winby received degrees from San Jose State University in California, with additional graduate studies at Stanford University. He has attended various executive education programs while at HP (e.g., Harvard and Stanford programs). His interests are in the design of dynamic networks as continuous innovation and productivity sources of advantage, and the management of innovation.