Andrew Wainstein
An experienced founder and coach, Andrew blends business leadership and psychological thinking to help leaders build businesses that harness self-awareness into energy for meaningful growth.
Andrew's Bio
Career Highlights
- Founder & CEO, Fantasy League: Pioneered fantasy football in Europe, evolving the business through three decades, developing games and partnerships with the BBC, Sky Sports, Vodafone and Barclays
- Non-Executive Director, Fantasy League: Providing strategic and financial guidance, ensuring the legacy of the brand, overseeing investor relations
- Coach & Consultant: helping leaders and teams build better businesses by enhancing their self-awareness, vision and communication
Notable Client Work
- Created the first mass-market fantasy football games in the UK, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and Argentina (The Telegraph @ 350k and Marca @ 3m entries becoming the largest ever newspaper promotions)
- Launched Schools Fantasy League program, engaging over 120k pupils, teachers and parents across 2,000 schools
- Helped various founders develop and scale their businesses (creative consultancy, AI recruitment, chain of mission-driven cafés)
- Built The Human Organisation framework to help businesses become more conscious and coherent around strategy, transformation and culture
Andrew's expertise
Working with Andrew
Andrew's Personality
Andrew describes himself as analytical and creative, bringing an emotionally intelligent, solution-orientated approach.
Andrew's Ideal Client
Andrew’s ideal clients are thoughtful leaders who are interested in developing their self-awareness and committed to building businesses and teams that can grow in meaningful, lasting ways.
Why Work With Andrew
- Proven Business Experience: Successfully navigated the challenges of evolving a business through decades of change
- Lived Experienced as a Founder: Understands the tension between growing a business and staying fulfilled as a leader
- Coaching & Psychological Understanding: Brings coach trainings from INSEAD and AoEC, a Foundation training from the Society of Analytical Psychology and his own rigorous work in psychotherapy and men’s groups
- Holistic Approach: Blends business experience, psychological thinking and creative problem-solving
How Andrew Can Enhance Your Business
- Enable you to scale or transform without losing touch of your business’s core identity, values and strengths
- Help you respond to challenges or identify opportunities by deepening your understanding of your business
- Empower leaders grow into themselves, to become more energised and impactful
- Foster strong, connected teams that feel invested in the business
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