Sherry Winn is a two-time Olympian, National Championship-winning coach, and internationally recognized leadership expert who has spent her life turning challenges into championship victories. With over 23 years of coaching experience and decades of speaking, training, and consulting for Fortune 500 companies-including Adobe, Edward Jones, New York Life, and Hitachi-Sherry has inspired thousands of leaders to think bigger, act bolder, and lead with both heart and grit. Sherry's journey to the podium wasn't a straight line. From battling personal adversity and self-doubt to representing the United States in the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games, she learned that true success isn't built on talent alone-it's forged through resilience, clarity, and the relentless pursuit of growth. Her coaching career was marked by more than 400 wins, multiple Coach of the Year honors, and a reputation for building cultures of accountability, trust, and high performance. Today, as the founder of The Winning Leadership Company, Sherry helps executives, entrepreneurs, and teams unlock what she calls the "Genius Factor"-the untapped potential that transforms good performers into extraordinary ones. She blends the discipline of elite athletics with the human-centered principles of emotional intelligence, empowering leaders to not only win in business but to leave a lasting legacy of impact. Her programs and keynotes have reached audiences as large as 14,000, and her work has been praised for being raw, real, and relentlessly practical.
Sherry's clients don't just learn leadership strategies-they experience transformation, shifting from managing tasks to inspiring people, from chasing success to creating significance. In Winning Wisdom: 247 Powerful Business Secrets to Bring Out the Champion in You, Sherry distills decades of hard-earned lessons, from Olympic arenas to boardrooms, into actionable insights you can apply immediately. Whether you're leading a team of ten or a company of ten thousand, Sherry's guidance will challenge you to think differently, act decisively, and bring out the champion-not only in yourself, but in everyone you lead.