Strategist Darcy Bien partners with CEOs, executives and leadership teams to plan their organizations’ futures. With nearly 20 years of experience helping hundreds of companies, her team-based approach and time-tested processes helped build her national reputation for delivering “actionable strategy.” The daughter of a brilliant entrepreneur who struggled with execution may explain Darcy’s bulldog tenacity among clients for doing whatever it takes to achieve successful strategic implementation.

Darcy is a Partner at Stretch Strategic Leaders, LLC, a Cincinnati-based strategic consulting firm and has also partnered with the Dayton-based consulting firm, Aileron, since 2010 to support their strategic planning initiatives. Prior to that, she was the National Partnership Director of the National Speaking of Women’s Health Foundation, where she developed new partner sales processes and created long-term partner strategies. With her expertise in strategic planning, continuous process improvement, and Total Quality Management, Darcy co-led the Strategic Eight Planning Process with the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce for five years.

Darcy holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Her career started at Procter & Gamble, where she spent five years cultivating operational, team development, and risk management. During graduate school, she developed a marketing strategy for Converse, Inc., Action Sports Division, utilizing consumer behavior technology and ZMET, and created several business plans. As a business solutions consultant, she completed a process improvement sales initiative for Bayer Plastics and a supply chain management project for Johnson Wax Professional.

Recognized as one of Cincinnati’s Forty under 40 and selected as an examiner for the Ohio Award for Excellence, Darcy enjoys volunteering in her spare time – having served as the HBS alumni Club President, PTA President, and Junior Achievement Instructor. When she’s not volunteering at her children’s schools or running her three kids to an after-school activity, she’s running the trails with her dogs (who are not bulldogs).

This whole operation would fall about without Nancy! She masterfully coordinates schedules, answers questions, and manages all the administrative details.

Nancy is a Cincinnati native who enjoys getting to know clients as they work through their process with The Wineinger Company. Her favorite part of the job is seeing how a company thrives when they implement the strategies that The Wineinger Company or Stretch Strategic Leaders gives them!

Nancy shares: Going through the 2-day Personal Strategic training was truly life changing for me! Self-awareness is so important to be able to be your best self! To watch people from other companies go through the training brought me so much joy as well! I loved seeing everyone come around and really get it! I felt like everyone left with a clear set of goals and self-awareness!

I love being a part of making businesses thrive both internally and in the marketplace!

Mandie Medcalf focuses on the visual aspect of company structure and professionalism. Having years of experience in graphic design & web design, branding, and UX/UI; Mandie is passionate about the art of visual communication. Her work is to communicate impact, success and professionalism through image and brand consistency.

With an extensive background in both marketing and administration, Mandie has a unique understanding of both the administrative and the creative side of business and specializes in interpreting those needs into an executable plan which ends in viable results.

Mandie works with the Wineinger Company to add the visual completion to the structuring and organizational processes as well as developing Cyndi’s training materials.