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John Winsor

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Author, Open Talent: Leveraging the Global Workforce to Solve Your Biggest Challenges | Executive in Residence, Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH)
John Winsor is a thought leader and global authority on open talent and the future of work. John’s ideas, expressed through his writing, speaking, and the companies he has built, have placed him at the intersection of innovation, disruption, and storytelling. He is a leading entrepreneur and advisor in the open talent space, having launched and sold several companies.

John is the executive-in-residence at Harvard Business School’s Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) and the Founder and Chairman of Open Assembly, a company that provides the world’s first digital aggregation platform to help organizations reduce friction in the adoption of open talent and freelancing.He is currently writing his sixth book: Open Talent: Leveraging a Global Workforce to Solve Your Biggest Challenges, along with his co-authors, Karim Lakhani and Jin Paik, the founders of LISH. Harvard Business Press will publish the book in the fall of 2023.

Recently, John co-founded a global industry coalition of global leaders in the open talent and innovation industry called The Center for the Transformation of Work with the goal of revolutionizing the workplace for a billion people by 2025.

John Winsor Points
Academic 0
Author 62
Influencer 272
Speaker 10
Entrepreneur 0
Total 344

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Innovation 32.44
Leadership 31.08

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2 Article/Blogs
Build an Internal Talent Marketplace to Empower Workers, Reduce Turnover
LinkedIn
January 23, 2024
Establishing an internal talent marketplace is one of the key pillars to building a networked organization as outlined in the book, Open Talent. We've seen successful implementations of this in many sectors.

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Tags: Innovation, Leadership

Building a Brand for Open Talent Platforms: Five Imperatives
LinkedIn
August 29, 2023
In today's hyper-connected, digital-first world, the traditional model of talent acquisition and management is being redefined. Open talent platforms are at the forefront of this disruption, allowing organizations to tap into global talent pools and reshape the future of work. Yet, for these platforms to flourish, a solid brand foundation is crucial.

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Tags: Innovation, Leadership, Mergers and Acquisitions

1 Book
Open Talent: Leveraging the Global Workforce to Solve Your Biggest Challenges
John Winsor
January 16, 2024
With sparsely populated offices and people working from wherever they are, and with AI emerging everywhere in business and dominating headlines, our work lives have undergone a remarkable transformation, seemingly overnight. But the reality is that for years the ever-growing digital wave has been breaking down organizational boundaries and increasing the adoption of open innovation, including the use of crowdsourcing platforms as a talent solution. Now the imperative is clear: adapt to and leverage this new, digitally enabled world of "open talent"—or get left behind.

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Tags: Innovation, Leadership

1 Keynote
Why Open Talent Ecosystems are the Real Future of Work
YouTube
December 03, 2020
John Winsor's keynote at the Topcoder Open (TCO19) focused on why open talent models are successful, how the business landscape is shifting, and how companies can (and must) drive innovation and avoid "passion deserts.”

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Tags: Innovation, Leadership

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