Turning Challenges into Change
Winning Strategies is a public affairs, government relations, and communications practice. For over four decades, we have been advising public, private and nonprofit organizations and individuals to navigate crises, build coalitions, and find impactful solutions for the common good.
Winning Strategies is a public affairs, government relations, and communications practice. For over four decades, we have been advising public, private and nonprofit organizations and individuals to navigate crises, build coalitions, and create impactful solutions for the common good.
Coalition Building
Corporate Social Responsibility
Inter-governmental & Political Strategy
Multi-cultural & Crisis Communications
Meet Robin Leeds, CEO
Winning Strategies founder and CEO Robin Leeds has more than four decades of experience navigating crises, building diverse coalitions, engaging stakeholders, and solving seemingly intractable problems. She has put these skills to work as a senior White House official, a C-suite advisor for major corporations, a nationally recognized policy advocate, a leader within transformative social movements, and a central player in every Democratic nominee’s presidential campaign since 1984. She is currently on Vice President Harris’s national fundraising committee and is an appointee to the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts (PACA).
A fierce champion for women, communities of color, the LGBTQIA+ community, and other underrepresented groups, Robin is an insider fighting for people who have historically been left out.
Here's where we drive change
The communities and spaces where we focus our initiatives
Arts & entertainment
Corporate social responsibility
Gender equality
LGBTQIA+ advocacy
Multicultural intersections
Philanthropy
Political campaigns
Public health
Sexual harassment
Stakeholder engagement
Voting rights
Women's advocacy
Workplace equality
Services in Public, Private and Nonprofit Sectors
What Winning Strategies Does
What We Stand For
Read Our Success Stories. Learn Where We Direct Our Efforts.
A Crisis Management Success at Barilla Pasta Company
A Global Turning Point in Women's Health
The Kennedy Center's
First-Ever Social Endowment Fund
Groundbreaking
Presidential Initiatives
Insights & Endorsements
"Ms. Leeds is a valuable asset. She has a wealth of diverse relationships and expertise working across the federal agency landscape and with non-governmental organizations."
–Charles J. Ogletree, Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, Emeritus In Memoriam, Harvard Law School
"We would not have been able to accomplish this without Robin’s determined focus on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging and her deep grasp of corporate social responsibility strategy and impressive bench of relationships."
–Jean Pierre Comte, President, Rana Meal Solutions
"When it comes to advancing a challenging public policy initiative, navigating politics and government, or providing strategic counsel in a crisis, there is no one better to lead the effort and have at your side."
–Giancarlo Esposito, Emmy nominated actor
“Robin Leeds works in passionate and intuitive ways to strategically cultivate cultural allyship. Robin continues to be someone I call on when the occasion calls for determined advocacy to confront culturally complex issues.”
–Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Vice President and Artistic Director of Social Impact at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
"As a member of the Harvard Women’s Leadership Board, Robin provided outstanding leadership, driving impactful initiatives locally and globally. Her strategic vision and commitment to empowering women have created lasting change at Harvard University and beyond."
–Holly Taylor Sargent, state Representative (D-Maine), former Executive Director, Harvard’s Women’s Leadership Board
"Robin Leeds is the type of strategic thinker that complex organizations dealing with critical issues should engage. She understands how politics and 'Politics' work, and her advice is provided in a straightforward, inclusive and thoughtful manner.”
–Laura Liswood, Secretary General, Council of Women World Leaders