“I feel like I’m just starting to get into my prime,” she says. “I want to keep writing this. I want to keep growing.” When she thinks about the women who will build what comes next, she does not tell them to follow the road she took. “Dream big. Picture yourself where you want to be, but don’t close off on how to get there, because there are multiple pathways.”
Lisa Winton’s story has never been about knowing exactly where those pathways lead. It has been built through uncertainty, mistakes, people who offered guidance at the right moment and a willingness to keep learning even after she earned the authority to lead. Nearly three decades after Winton Machine began in a basement, Lisa still talks about learning as though she is somewhere near the beginning. Maybe that is why, at almost 60, she can say without hesitation that she feels she is only now entering her prime. There is more she wants to understand, more she wants to contribute and, as she puts it, more of the story she wants to write. For the women coming behind her, perhaps that is permission enough to begin before everything is figured out—and to never become so accomplished that there is nothing left to learn.
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