About WINGMIND
Assessing and strengthening the human factors that shape execution and value creation
WINGMIND supports investors, Boards and CEOs during acquisitions, scaling, build-ups, leadership transitions, organisational transformations and periods of underperformance.
We help make human and organisational risks visible, support sensitive decisions and strengthen execution capacity.
We believe that sustainable performance depends not only on strategy or financial resources, but also on leadership quality, strategic clarity, organisational effectiveness and the ability to engage teams over time.
Our work is built around two complementary areas of expertise :
Assessment
Understand before you decide
Leadership Reviews, Human Due Diligence, Organisational Assessments and Executive Team Assessments designed to identify human risks, barriers to execution and value creation opportunities.
Advisory
Support execution over time
Advisory and coaching for CEOs, Boards and executive teams to strengthen execution, leadership, governance and collective performance.
A few facts
100+ engagements
Assessment, advisory and transformation assignments with CEOs and executive teams.
10 countries
International experience supporting companies, investors and senior leaders in a wide range of contexts.
Investors & CEOs
Private Equity, Venture Capital, Boards, SMEs, scale-ups and companies undergoing transformation.
Dual experience
Former Private Equity investor, entrepreneur and advisor to CEOs.
How we work
Say what needs to be said, connect people to business and serve collective success
Say what needs to be said
Honest conversations, independent thinking and objective recommendations, even when difficult decisions must be made.
Connect people to business
Leadership, organisational and team issues are always assessed through their impact on strategy, execution, governance and value creation.
Serve collective success
We seek solutions that serve the long-term success of the company as a whole, beyond individual interests, internal politics or functional boundaries.
Support the decision
Go beyond diagnosis and help decide what should be strengthened, changed, complemented, reorganised or replaced.
A flexible network of expertise
David Chouraqui personally leads every assignment. Depending on the situation, WINGMIND brings together a targeted network of advisors, consultants and executive coaches to assemble the most relevant team.
This flexible model allows us to combine investor insight, leadership assessment, organisational diagnosis, executive coaching and transformation support according to each client’s specific needs.
The founder
David Chouraqui
A former Private Equity investor, entrepreneur and executive coach, David Chouraqui has spent the past 14 years coaching and advising CEOs and executive teams through growth, transformation, transition and underperformance.
David founded WINGMIND after a career spanning international business development, mergers & acquisitions, Private Equity and entrepreneurship.
He began his career in international business development and marketing at L’Oréal, before joining Rothschild Corporate Finance in mergers & acquisitions. He later joined The Gores Group, a US Private Equity firm, where he was responsible for the origination and execution of investment opportunities across Europe.
In 2010, he founded Closing Circle, an international media company dedicated to Private Equity and M&A, which he sold to Leaders League in 2015.
His experience as an investor, entrepreneur and coach allows him to combine business, financial, organisational and human perspectives. He helps investors, Boards and CEOs assess risks, make sensitive decisions and strengthen execution capacity.
David graduated from HEC Paris, is certified in Hogan Assessments and trained in Organization & Relationship Systems Coaching. He works in French, English and Spanish.
Facing a critical human or organisational decision?
Acquisition, CEO transition, executive team tensions, transformation or underperformance: let’s discuss the situation and how WINGMIND could help.