WINNOW Consultants and Associates is a Limited Liability, Business Development Firm that is focused on the sustainable development of our clients. As such, we strive to find ways of ensuring that the client’s organisation remains nimble and profitable through the continual injection of researched knowledge, innovation and adaptive business practices. We seek to inspire, and advise our clients to view their product or service as a globally competitive offering, even if there is no immediate desire to export. It is our belief that with this approach infused into our intervention, we will be able to sustainably improve the client’s company in every aspect of its operations.
Who We Are
When WINNOW was founded, our company focused on Consultancy and Management services for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. It was clear that these SMEs would have experienced difficulties with the know-how of business around their ideas. On their own, these companies were ill-equipped to build a supporting organisation around their business operations. WINNOW Consultants and Associates sought to do that for them by being that much-needed supporting organisation – by providing the services that were required or by helping them to develop the internal systems that would enable their survivability.
Indeed, WINNOW’s interventions are heavily based on the application of research-based innovation. Created through the amalgamation of academics and practitioners, WINNOW is able to offer its clients advanced, relevant and applicable solutions.
Our offerings include marketing, training, corporate strategies, finance, accounting, project management, entrepreneurial development, human resource management and knowledge development.
Through our expansion initiative, WINNOW has also been able to partner with associated individuals and companies to offer services in Economic Resilience, Legislation and Policy Development, Risk Management, Compliance, Agriculture and Food Production, Waste Management and Customer Care.
Of Caribbean origins and with increasing reach beyond the region, WINNOW was founded within the Small Island Developing State of Trinidad and Tobago which has presented a particular context regarding business development. Due to this, WINNOW has placed special interest and emphasis on the development of companies within this context.
WINNOW’s Core Values: Upholding IntegrityBeing Research and Innovation-basedBeing Community and People-focusedEnabling Sustainability for all StakeholdersFostering Mutually Beneficial PartnershipsCustomization to Clients’ Needs within their Context
Dr. Lincoln Bobb
CEO and Director of Marketing
Dr. Lincoln Bobb leads WINNOW in two major capacities; as the CEO and as the Director of Marketing. He is a holder of a Doctorate in Business Administration from the University of the West Indies’ business school, the Arthur Lok Global School of Business.
Driven to make business research applicable in the real world, Lincoln continuously contributes written articles to both the Arthur Lok Jack business magazine, Ialum, and Winnow’s business blog. This drive has led to creation of concepts such as the Winnows 9 Ps Marketing Mix, the derivative of the Triple helix and the innovation infinity cycle.
Dr. Lincoln Bobb has also presented researched papers and has represented Trinidad and Tobago at the colloquium of Commonwealth Local Government in Malta where he presented his paper entitled “A Derivative of The Triple Helix Way to stimulate innovation and efficiency in the operations of the Arima Borough Corporation.” In this paper Lincoln adapted the Triple Helix concept for use within the local government context within Trinidad and Tobago and showed how its introduction can lead to heightened innovation, efficiency and effectiveness.
A consultant for over fifteen years, Dr. Bobb has worked with private and public companies that function within the financial, manufacturing, retail and energy sectors and has also worked with international organizations such as the United Nations- FAO. His consultancy practice has enabled him to gain global exposure and has had the privilege to provide consultancy services throughout the Caribbean and in Europe.
Dr. Lincoln Bobb specialises in Marketing, Internationalization from Small Island Developing States, Strategy formulation, Human Resource Management, Leadership, Process Re-engineering, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Dr. Bobb is one of the founding members of Winnow Consultants and Associates Ltd.
Jason Maule
Director of Operations and Investments
Jason Maule is Director of Operations and Investments at WINNOW. He is a graduate of the University of New Brunswick, Canada with a degree in Business Administration (Honours), with areas of focus in Human Resource Management, Finance and Marketing. He has over 13 years of experience in portfolio, project and construction management as a Senior Project Officer at the Water and Sewerage Authority. With expertise in project monitoring, reporting and control, Jason Maule has undertaken shared responsibility for monitoring the Project Management impacts on the Strategic Plan of the Authority. He has also been responsible in part for oversight of projects such as The Water Sector Modernisation Programme, CITI Loan 12 month Development Plan, the National Social Development Programme, and the IDB Development Loan 2890 and 2900 Wastewater Development Programme. He is dependable, driven and committed to teamwork. Jason Maule is a co-founder of WINNOW.
Dr. Keisha Valdez
Director of Knowledge Development and Application
Dr. Keisha Valdez is Director of Knowledge Development and Application at WINNOW. She is also a Senior Instructional Developer at Boston College, USA. Dr. Valdez has earned a Masters in Education from Howard University and a Doctor of Education degree at George Washington University. From 2009 to 2016 she held the post of Faculty Development Specialist/Programme Co-ordinator at The Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. One highlight of her career is that from 2007 to 2009 she advised the leaders of a broad range of underperforming, low income, urban and rural school districts across Indiana, Connecticut and Delaware, USA on strategies for improving student outcomes using best practice approaches in school reform and school-based management. Further, as an expert in curriculum and instruction, she reviewed proposals, participated in panel interviews and made recommendations to the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board’s selection committee for the approval of proposals for innovative chartered/independent schools in Washington DC. In this latter capacity, she also provided developmental feedback reports to school developers for improving their school designs. As a co-founder of WINNOW, Dr. Valdez contributes to the high standards for research and academic rigour of the WINNOW team.
Marcus Solomon
Director of Finance
Marcus has earned a Master of Business Administration from Heriot-Watt University, a Post-Graduate Certificate, Project Planning, Appraisal and Management at the University of Bradford and a BSc. Economic from the University of the West Indies. He has sixteen years of experience providing professional services to public, private and NGO entities in the areas of corporate/business planning, corporate governance, finance, budgeting, process reengineering and project management.
His life motto is every problem has a solution, and the key to finding the solution is understanding the problem.
Our Associates
- Miriam Jacobs – Business Management
- Jennifer Andall – Human Resource Management
- Jason Jack – Human Resource Management
- Angelique Cole Nero – Marketing
- Kevon Williams – Entrepreneurship
- Gaius Eudoxie – Soil Management, Food Production and Waste Management
- Marcus Simms – Marketing and Accounting
- De Vaughn Brown – Business Intelligence Solutions
- Sarah Lezama – Strategy and Finance