Thomas Winkelmann

CoFounder

Thomas began designing Colors, Vogue, GQ and World of Interiors — until he realized the bigger stories were unfolding in boardrooms and ministries. That transition, from editorial and journalistic work to large-scale organizational transformation, became the throughline of everything that followed. He moved into guiding CEOs, founders, and governments through existential transitions — his work with the World Economic Forum, Apple, Kaiser Permanente, The Newhouse Family, The European Forum Alpbach, and international family offices has been about drawing leaders out of their heads and into the languages of the soul, where clarity, vision, and courage live. He helps people forge vivid connections between their own life experience and the work they are part of, drawing from wide, unexpected sources and inviting courageous, personal inquiry.



Apprenticed to Jim Dine, trained at Parsons, and once creative director of an investigative journalism platform in Cairo, Thomas has lived in many idioms — as a designer at Benetton’s Colors, art editor at Condé Nast, and creative director at Publicis Groupe before the work turned inward. What has come from this is the belief that the things that truly move us — art, ritual, the primal — can also move institutions and economies. He continues a photography practice exploring the relationship between light and the cultural identity of places.