Angelika Hernández Dorendorf, creator of the WIN Method

WIN METHOD™ · WOMEN INVEST & IMPACT

Financial freedom is a three-pillar decision. Most women were only ever taught one.

The WIN Method™ is the first holistic financial empowerment framework for women — built on 20 years inside Swiss private banking, and one painful lesson from home.

Angelika Hernández Dorendorf · Zürich

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The Voice Behind WIN

The moment knowledge became a method.

Angelika Hernández Dorendorf on why she built WIN.

The Origin of WIN

How one woman learned that money has three pillars — and why two were never enough.

Angelika speaking on education and the wealth gap

I · The Head · Wealth Intelligence

She chose finance so no woman in her family would be unprepared again.

Before finance, Angelika was a federated competitive swimmer, then the top-ranked tennis player in her state, and represented Trujillo at Miss Venezuela 2005 — the first stage where she learned what a public voice can do, planting the seed of Misses4Peace, a non-profit she founded. She financed her studies as a tennis and swimming coach and model. At school she was never taught money. Then, within a single year, she lost her older brother — and then her father. The family company her father had been preparing her to lead was taken over and lost. Her family had to leave Venezuela — home, business, everything. Her mother did not know what to do financially. Angelika set aside her dream of becoming a children’s doctor and chose finance, so that no woman in her family would ever again be unprepared. Resilience, faith, critical thinking and a financial mindset carried her through, none of it learned in a classroom. Twenty years followed at UBS, Credit Suisse and Marcuard Heritage, advising ultra-high-net-worth families. She had mastered the numbers.

I understood the head. I thought that was the whole answer.
Angelika Hernández Dorendorf speaking at a lectern

II · The Heart · Inner Alignment

The one lesson she never got at school, she got from her mother.

At Credit Suisse she founded the Women's Investment Network and ran workshops for women. That is where she saw it: brilliant, capable women who knew the theory and still did not act. Limiting beliefs. Old family patterns. A quiet doubt about their own worth. Angelika recognised it instantly — because her mother had taught her to see it. Her mother had begun working on herself long before it was fashionable: on self-worth, on the beliefs a little girl absorbs without noticing, on the patterns handed down through generations. She passed that inner work on to her daughter. No school teaches it; Angelika has never stopped being grateful for it, and it is why the inner game of money has been part of every conversation she has had with a woman about wealth. She trained as a life and business coach, later becoming a Mindvalley Money Coach, and began working with women on the second pillar. She now spoke of two pillars, head and heart.

My mother gave me the heart. She could not give me what she had not yet broken herself.
Angelika Hernández Dorendorf speaking into a microphone

III · The Voice · Negotiation & Voice

The pattern her mother could not break became the pillar she had to find.

There was one pattern her mother had never broken: silence about money. And you cannot teach what you have not lived. So Angelika, who had taught women around the world to speak up about money, stayed silent in her own family, where money was taboo. The cost of that silence was devastating. Then, in her weakest moment, her mother stood up and raised her voice. In that moment Angelika understood: without the third pillar, the other two do not hold. Head and heart alone do not free you. You have to be able to say it — negotiate it, ask for it, claim it. She turned that pain into purpose. WIN is the framework she wishes her mother had had — and the one her mother, in the end, helped her complete.

In her weakest moment, my mother showed her greatest strength. She finally raised her voice.

All three pillars have to be solid — Wealth Intelligence, Inner Alignment, Negotiation & Voice — for a woman to be financially abundant, free, fulfilled and able to stand up. And if we want to break the pattern for the next generation, we have to learn it and live it ourselves first.

Until the system catches up, it’s us

Schools still don’t teach money. So women will.

The education system has a gap: it does not teach the financial and entrepreneurial skills that this fast-shifting digital era demands more than ever — resilience, ownership, negotiation. Until curricula adapt, it is women who pass these skills to the next generation. WIN exists to make sure they can.

Fewer than 1 in 3 adults worldwide is financially literate.

S&P Global FinLit Survey

Women are expected to control $30 trillion in the US alone by 2030.

McKinsey & Company

Women live on average around five years longer than men — and must make their money last longer.

WHO

Unleash the wealth within. Then pass it on.

The WIN Method™ · Unleash the Wealth Within

Three pillars. One whole woman.

The world’s first framework to fuse financial intelligence, emotional healing and legacy building — because information alone has never been enough.

WEALTH INTELLIGENCEWIINNER ALIGNMENTNNEGOTIATION & VOICEOwn it. Align it. Say it.
W

Head

Wealth Intelligence

Build financial clarity, understand investing, and create a five-year Financial Freedom Roadmap.

I

Heart

Inner Alignment

Heal money wounds, break limiting patterns, and write a new wealth story on your own terms.

N

Voice

Negotiation & Voice

Speak up, ask, negotiate, teach your children, and lead your community with economic confidence.

Client voices

The work, in their words.

Verbatim from live coaching sessions.

Angelika is a fantastic coach and so adaptable to the coachee. It got me really excited to see the blending of the practical budget ‘stuff’ with the beauty of emotions and embodiment. It was a beautiful coaching arc.

Shelley Lewis

I learned so much and feel less intimidated to apply this with clients. I loved how you incorporated visualization, daring to dream and body awareness — the balance was truly inspiring.

Todd Joseph

Both of these coaching sessions were beyond amazing. So many nuggets and aha moments.

Beverly A. Gunn

The 10% pledge

The more you give, the more you receive.

10% of every WIN Method™ programme payment goes to the foundations I serve, so that women and children who were never taught money get the same chance I had to build it. Reported once a year, in the open.

Fundación AvanzarNextGen4Impact

About

Angelika Hernández Dorendorf

Creator of the WIN Method™ · Wealth advisor · Board member · Speaker & author

20+ years in Swiss private banking, impact investing and philanthropy — UBS, Credit Suisse, Marcuard Heritage AG; founder of the Women's Investment Network at Credit Suisse. Venezuelan-born, based in Zürich, a worldschooling mother of four.

Impact investing & sustainability advocate

SDG 4 Quality Education (target 4.7) and SDG 5 Gender Equality. Keynote speaker, moderator, trainer and coach on impact investing, ESG and women’s financial empowerment.
UN Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality EducationUN Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality

Advocating for SDG 4.7 and SDG 5

Boards & foundations

Foundation CouncilWe Share Forward FoundationBoard memberFundación Avanzar, empowering 500–1,000 women a year through education.

Ventures & movements

Founder & PresidentNextGen4Impact, to protect and empower the next generationCo-founderAmazonia RepublicFounderMisses4Peace, non-profit

NextGen4Impact — to protect and empower the next generation. Its Social Media 16+ petition (nearly 100,000 signatures, submitted to the Federal Council, covered by SRF, Blick, Watson and swissinfo) built Switzerland’s first cross-party alliance on youth digital protection. Sign here

Coaching

Official Mindvalley Money Coach · Trained life & business coach

Author

Author of five books for the next generation
Explore the books

Speaking & Media

A voice for wealth, education and the human curriculum.

Angelika speaks with the candour of lived experience and the precision of a private banker.

Speaker · Keynote · Moderator

Speaker · Keynote · Moderator: SPHERE Zürich · Keynote
SPHERE Zürich · Keynote

Engagement

Themes · Head, Heart & Voice · Education & the wealth gap · The great wealth transfer · AI & conscience capital · Legacy wealth for women

Stages & media · World Economic Forum Davos · House of Trust Davos · SPHERE Zürich · Geneva Wealth Day · Markets Group Forum · CNN · BBC · SRF · Der Spiegel

Formats · Keynote · Panel · Moderation · Fireside chat · Workshop & training — in English, Spanish or German

Engage

Work with Angelika

For women, families and founders

Clarity Call

15 minutes, free. You tell me where you are; I tell you which of the three pillars to strengthen first, and your right next step.

The WIN Method™

Six modules, the complete workbook suite and the WIN Diagnostic. Lifetime access, every future update. Every enrolment funds course access for one woman who cannot afford it.

$397 · one-time

Wealth Clarity Session

90 minutes, one-to-one. Your full three-pillar diagnosis, a first-draft Financial Freedom Roadmap and your exact next moves. You leave with a written roadmap.

CHF 490 · credited in full when you continue into any programme within 30 days

Reserve your session

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The WIN Founding Circle

Eight weeks in an intimate circle of women. The full WIN Method™, lived together, with a sisterhood that holds you accountable.

CHF 2,400

Limited seats.

WIN Private

Six months, one-to-one. Your complete Financial Freedom Roadmap across all three pillars, direct access between sessions, and Angelika in your corner for every money decision.

CHF 9,900

A limited number of private clients at a time.

By application · for you and your next generation

WIN Legacy

One year at the legacy level — your wealth, your structures, your succession — with your next generation inside the method, not outside the room.

For you: Legacy Diagnosis across all three pillars, monthly private sessions with Angelika, and a seat in the WIN Circle

For each next-generation member: the full WIN Method™ course, a seat in the WIN Circle, and three private sessions with Angelika

Together: quarterly family reviews — succession, structures, philanthropy, and the money conversations most families never have

One year. By application. Angelika's private-bank standard on every decision.

From CHF 25,000 — you and one next-generation member

CHF 6,000 per additional family member

Wealth advisory

Private wealth advisory

For women, families and next-generation wealth holders who want their capital managed with impact and sustainability at the core. Portfolio management, international banking structures, Latin American exposure.

Advisory services are provided through a licensed partner institution; details are shared in the first conversation. Nothing on this site constitutes investment advice.

For boards, institutions and event organisers

Board & advisory mandates

Independent board member and foundation council. Available for board, advisory and foundation council mandates where finance, impact and education meet.

Keynotes & moderation

Keynotes, panels and moderation on women’s wealth, impact investing, ESG and the next generation — in English, Spanish and German.

License the WIN Method™

Bring WIN to your institution, company or foundation: licensed programmes, certification and train-the-trainer for women’s financial empowerment.

Coming soon — WIN Certified Trainers: certification and licensing for coaches and educators · WIN internships for the next generation. Register interest

Course access

One seat bought. One seat given.

Every woman who enrols in the WIN Method course opens a place for a woman who cannot pay for one. Not a discount. Not a gesture. A full course place — the same six modules, the same workbook — for a woman in Caracas, in Panama City, in a place where nobody has ever told her that the room is hers. You do not have to do anything. It happens when you enrol.

If you are that woman, the door is open. Course places are granted by application. Asking is not something to be ashamed of — it is the first time you use your voice about money.

Before you book

Honest answers.

Your next step

Find out which of your three pillars is weakest — in 3 minutes.

Start with an honest picture of your Wealth Intelligence, Inner Alignment, and Negotiation & Voice.

Question 1 of 911%
I can explain my current assets, liabilities and cash flow.
Not yet trueConsistently true

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Financial freedom begins when all three pillars belong to you.

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