About
ThinkWyn is a Leadership consultancy focused on helping individuals and organizations become better versions of themselves.
After many years in academia, we spent a decade growing our careers inside startups, the enterprise, and for leading-edge consultancies.
In 2011, we decided to launch our own firm.
Perspectives that Shape Our Work
Organizational Psychology
Leadership. Organizational Change. Human Behavior.
Leading effectively in today’s dynamic environment requires a humanity-centered approach. We help business leaders to better understand the needs, interests and drivers of their employees and customers. We help to actualize the statement “our people are our greatest asset.”
Continuous Learning & Growth
Development. Decision-Making. Institutional Memory.
At the core of our formal study are continual learning and collaboration. Learning is at the heart of Design and Psychology. We’re interested in the difficult questions like, “How might we create the best conditions to enable learning communities, transparency, and growth mindsets?”
Strategic Design
Co-Creation. Research. Strategy. Systems Thinking.
We’re focused on crafting how decisions are made. We bring together diverse and cross-functional insights to gain alignment in order to drive change. Strategic Design is an approach to problem-solving that positions people and organizations as the creators of their own future.
Principals
Melanie Kinser, Ph.D.
Melanie most enjoys working with leaders and watching the positive change that occurs across their teams and their organizations as a result of the leader’s efforts to grow their skills and evolve their approach. She is motivated by a desire to help people see themselves and those they work with from a multi-faceted perspective. She is passionate about helping people to better conceptualize where they are and where they want to go in their careers.
Over the past two decades, Melanie has partnered with clients to align strategy, develop leaders, and strengthen organizational culture. Specifically, Melanie specializes in individual and organizational assessment, leadership selection and development, culture change and integrated talent management. With a PhD in Psychology, Melanie merges her understanding of human behavior and business to help her clients drive strategic alignment and to foster values-based organizational cultures.
Pete Kinser, M.A.
Pete is passionate about applying Design as a strategic differentiator by cultivating humanity-centered mindsets, principles, and practices. He is motivated to elevate how Design is integrated as a core organizational competency.
For 20+ years Pete has partnered with Executive leaders to devise strategy, build teams, create processes, and refine systems for repeatable design-led innovation. Pete has supported founders and executive teams alike to highlight culture and employee experience as drivers for organizational growth. For the past decade he’s leveraged his skills in learning and development to teach graduate courses and to lead executive education forums with a focus on human-centered design and design-led innovation.