Win Chesson
About Win Chesson
Win Chesson founded Goodwin Growth to deliver top notch coaching to select high achievers, including Fortune 100 executives, venture-backed founders, board members, non-profit leaders and inheritors of wealth. His group facilitation focuses on strengthening interpersonal influence, cultivating feedback culture, and improving communication for remote-first companies. Win's leadership practice is deeply influenced by his work at Stanford as a facilitator for the Interpersonal Dynamics course (aka "Touchy Feely"), one of the business school's most popular electives, as well as his time as a fellow at Harvard's Center for Public Leadership. Prior to launching Goodwin Growth, Win spent four years in the Investment Management Division at Goldman Sachs as an advisor to the firm’s partners, private clients and foundation endowments on their investment portfolios. He serve as lead advisor to clients with assets totaling nearly $1 billion AUS (as of 3/31/21). He received his MBA from Stanford and MPA from Harvard, where he earned a full-tuition Gleitsman Leadership Fellowship and was selected to join the teaching team for Adaptive Leadership, a legendary course developed by Ron Heifetz. Immediately prior to business school, he worked at IDEO as a Design Entrepreneur. From 2008-2014 Win led the development team at Immigration Equality, the national leader in LGBT and HIV immigration rights. In that time, Immigration Equality doubled its number of offices, tripled its operating budget, quadrupled client services, and won over 500 LGBT asylum cases with a 99% success rate. He loved his job! Win won a Morehead-Cain Scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he graduated with Highest Distinction. At UNC, Win wrote for Lambda Magazine, directed the largest LGBTQ student conference in the South, and taught an accredited seminar called “T is for Transgender: An Ally’s Guide to Activism.” Win is passionate about social justice philanthropy, meditation and outdoor adventure. He cycled across the United States to raise money for affordable housing, swam 28 miles around Manhattan on a four-person charity relay, and summited Mount Kenya. He is a competitive swimmer for Team New York Aquatics (TNYA), the largest LGBT swim team in the world, and helped TNYA raise and give away over $100,000 in five years. Under his leadership as Board Co-President in 2012, TNYA won the LGBT International Aquatics Championships. Win has received multiple top ten national rankings as a Masters swimmer, including nine firsts.