Kristin's Story

Kristin Engvig is a global pioneer in women's leadership and conscious leadership, recognised for her long-standing contribution to advancing more inclusive, human-centred approaches to leadership and systems transformation. For nearly three decades, she has convened and connected thousands of women from around the world;to one another, to themselves, to new possibilities, and to a shared vision of the future they are capable of creating together. Through the carefully curated and nurturing environments she has created, women have found role models, discovered their voice, recognised their potential, awakened to new possibilities, and moved forward with greater confidence, clarity, purpose, and agency.

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For nearly three decades, her work has focused on integrating inner development with organisational and societal change. Long before authentic leadership, diversity, and feminine leadership became widely recognised priorities, Kristin was quietly laying the foundations of what would grow into an international movement.

 

Born and raised on the west coast of Norway, Kristin grew up close to nature before embarking on a lifelong journey of living, working, and travelling across cultures. She has spent much of her adult life in Japan, Italy, and Switzerland while travelling extensively around the world. She is also a mother and deeply passionate about family, relationships, and creating the conditions in which present and future generations can flourish.

 

In the late 1990s, from her kitchen in Milan, she founded Women's International Networking (WIN) with the vision of creating a global platform where individuals and organisations could explore a more balanced, conscious, and regenerative way of leading and living. Guided by a clear sense of purpose and a deep commitment to being the change, WIN evolved into a globally respected leadership ecosystem spanning Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the United States.

 

Over the years, Kristin has collaborated with more than 100 of the world's most respected companies and institutions and welcomed more than 25,000 participants and leaders to the Global WINConference and High-Level Gatherings.

 

Through WIN's programmes, partnerships, and global community initiatives, women around the world have been directly and indirectly impacted. Many participants, inspired, connected, and mentored through WIN, have gone on to create their own leadership networks, initiatives, and movements, extending WIN's influence across sectors and continents. In this way, WIN has become not only a leadership organisation but also a catalyst for countless new conversations, communities, and possibilities around the world.

 

From its earliest years, WIN convened international women's networks across cultures and countries while developing its own global community and sisterhood aligned with the WIN Way. Over time, its reach expanded to include increasing numbers of leaders from leading international organisations, while its founding vision and transformational architecture remained constant.

 

Central to Kristin's work is the WIN Way, an interconnected philosophy, original body of work, and lived methodology created and continually developed and refined over nearly three decades. Within it, Illuminated Leadership, World • Work • You, The Eight Pillars, The Seven Keys of Connecting with Purpose and Joy, Leading and Healing with the Seasons, and The Art of Convening together form the distinctive architecture of WIN. From the beginning, this architecture has connected WORLD, WORK, and YOU/WE through eight structural pillars for personal, organisational, and societal transformation. It integrates feminine principles of awareness, alignment, and attraction with the clarity, structure, and purposeful action of the healthy masculine, bringing together inner awakening and meaningful outer impact.

 

This architecture has continued to deepen and reveal itself through a wider body of ideas, practices, and pathways. These include feminine and authentic leadership, now evolved into Illuminated Leadership; Shining Together: Connecting to Flourish; Connecting with Purpose and Joy and the Seven Keys to Connecting; Creating the Future; and becoming an Agent of Possibility. Many of these ideas have been translated into practical learning tools, including the WIN Learning and Discovery Journal and the specially designed Connecting Book, originally known as the Networking Book and later as Shining Together: Connecting to Flourish. Together, they help people awaken to their creative power, develop authentic relationships, recognise new possibilities, and participate consciously in creating a future in which everyone can flourish and shine together.

 

For nearly three decades, Kristin has also articulated and shared this evolving body of work through monthly reflections, newsletters, numerous articles, and other original writings and creations. She co-wrote and co-produced the film In the Right Light, extending her exploration of human potential, transformation, and the creative power within us into film.

 

A deep Culture of Generosity has permeated WIN from the beginning, inspiring people to share their knowledge, relationships, opportunities, and resources so that others may grow and flourish. This is especially visible in the numerous scholarships Kristin's work has enabled and the initiatives she has supported benefiting girls and women in India, Nigeria, Cameroon, Nepal, Burundi, and across Europe.

 

She is a sought-after speaker, facilitator, mentor, and advisor, partnering with senior leaders navigating complexity, cultural transformation, diversity, and the future of leadership. She has chaired three high-level leadership dialogues at the United Nations in Geneva, in collaboration with distinguished global partners, and regularly contributes to international conversations, including the W7 of the G7, the Nobel Peace Prize Forum, and global leadership gatherings.

 

Her work advancing women's leadership worldwide has been recognised with several international awards, including the EuroKnowledge Outstanding Women Leadership Award, recognition from the CEOforLIFE Awards, Diversity Global Magazine, and the International Alliance for Women.

 

Earlier in her career, she worked with J.P. Morgan, Citibank, Innovation Norway, and European policy and strategy consulting organisations. She currently serves on the boards of the Global Citizen Forum and CSPOC, an NGO with consultative status at the United Nations.

 

She holds a degree in Business and Marketing from BI Norwegian Business School and an MBA from SDA Bocconi School of Management in Milan. Her interdisciplinary path spans leadership psychology, systems thinking, creativity, and communication, grounded in nearly three decades of yoga, meditation, and contemplative practice as a way of life. Her many years of study in communication, creativity, and embodied practice have further shaped her understanding of creation as a process of revealing what is already present.

Together, these dimensions bring analytical rigour and embodied wisdom to her work.

 

Known for her remarkable ability to convene people across cultures, sectors, and generations, Kristin has brought together leaders from around the world in environments characterised by trust, openness, beauty, generosity, and transformation. Her distinctive Art of Convening creates the conditions in which people feel seen, heard, valued, and inspired to contribute their unique gifts. By creating spaces where diverse perspectives meet with respect and curiosity, her work quietly builds bridges between cultures, a form of leadership that many regard as a meaningful contribution to peace.

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Her life's work is dedicated to expanding consciousness, in the world, at work, and within each individual, and to creating the conditions in which people, organisations, and societies can learn, evolve, and flourish together.

 

Guided by the belief that how we come together shapes what becomes possible, she continues to steward the evolution of the WIN Way and its original body of work for future generations.