Michelle Stacy

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  • President, Keurig Inc. (2008-2013)
  • Vice President of Global Business Management, Gillette (1982-2005)
  • Former Expert in Residence, Harvard Innovation Lab
  • Board of Directors: iRobot, Coravin, HydraFacial

If you drank a cup of coffee, brushed your teeth or shaved this morning, your life has already been impacted by Michelle Stacy’s leadership.

For the last 35 years, Michelle Stacy has built a career that has culminated in leadership positions at Gillette, P&G, and most recently as President of Keurig. These companies have all benefited from her ability to develop and articulate a clear vision and strategy, build brands, and identify avenues for growth.

Michelle’s key to managing and driving exceptional growth has been her ability to create a positive and focused culture that generates high employee engagement, as well as talent for creating company-wide commitment to lead with a higher purpose.

 



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Past Hosts Include:
  • Ropes & Gray
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley
  • NBTY
  • iRobot Corporation
Rave Reviews About Michelle Stacy as a Speaker
Michelle’s insights on developing a culture of organizational engagement provoked discussions that lasted long after the end of her keynote speech. Her command of the topic and her experience as a CEO made the lessons she shared less about theory and more about the real and tangible impact for a successful business. She captured the audience with genuine style and powerful storytelling. She brought the topic to life by translating it into meaningful insights for the audience.

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Full Engagement Leadership: Balance, Hidden Stars, and Apples: What I Learned Over Coffee

The only “things” within an organization that can CREATE are its people. Only people can generate growth because only people can innovate. Yet, employees are the most undervalued, under-motivated resources. WHY? Because most leaders let their employees become disengaged. A leader’s ability to genera ...

The only “things” within an organization that can CREATE are its people. Only people can generate growth because only people can innovate.

Yet, employees are the most undervalued, under-motivated resources. WHY? Because most leaders let their employees become disengaged.

A leader’s ability to generate employee engagement is a skill that is critical to creating positive business results.

Michelle’s talk will outline simple skills that leaders can develop in order to build a fully engaged team.

10 lessons leaders learn from Michelle:

  1. Why it’s essential to be yourself (and how to do it!)
  2. How to balance 6 key components of leadership
  3. How to build a personal leadership statement
  4. Why “seeing the apple” is important when listening to opinions
  5. How to create engagement by bringing out “the star” in everyone
  6. How to build a powerful mission & value statement and bring it to life
  7. What you do, and how you do it, creates the culture
  8. What it means to “listen for greatness” from others
  9. The importance of the middle to drive business results
  10. How to use the Corporate Mission to create employee engagement and shareholder value

Keurig, Gilette Mach3, and Oral-B: 5 Strategies that Transform Innovation

In Michelle’s keynote speech on Strategy and Innovation, she begins with insight into building a strong strategic vision and culminates with strategies to create exciting innovation prospects. Strategic Vision and Planning Creating a Mission and Vision Building an OGSM (objectives, goals, strategie ...

In Michelle’s keynote speech on Strategy and Innovation, she begins with insight into building a strong strategic vision and culminates with strategies to create exciting innovation prospects.

Strategic Vision and Planning

  • Creating a Mission and Vision
  • Building an OGSM (objectives, goals, strategies and measures)
  • Planning and managing growth

Sustainable Innovation

  • Transformational Innovation: getting the most from innovation
  • Building an innovation culture, capabilities and resources
  • Identifying and leveraging your consumers 

Women's Leadership: My Career Journey: Balance, Leadership and Personal Choices

Michelle was a member of one of the first classes of women to attend Dartmouth College, and from that moment continued to be a trail blazer. Over the last 35 years, she has balanced both a successful career and a successful marriage. Together, Michelle and her husband, Bud, have raised two children ...

Michelle was a member of one of the first classes of women to attend Dartmouth College, and from that moment continued to be a trail blazer. Over the last 35 years, she has balanced both a successful career and a successful marriage. Together, Michelle and her husband, Bud, have raised two children who are now adults and forging their way in their own careers.

Along the way, Michelle has managed many of the challenging balancing acts and trade-offs that one experiences during life’s journey.

In Michelle’s keynote speech on Women’s Leadership, you will learn how to consider the “Right Choices” for your life and career, and may even have a laugh or two as she shares stories about her colorful journey that has been fully enjoyed!

5 Insights You will Learn:

  1. It’s about making choices
  2. It’s not a straight road; be prepared for bumps
  3. Making the most of the bumps
  4. 7 things that make “the dual career” easier
  5. Don’t measure yourself on anyone else’s time schedule

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<p><strong>Michelle is a living consumer product marketing legend, honing her craft with brands such as Gilette, Oral B, Keurig, and now, HydraFacial, and teaches us how to respond to new consumer habits</strong></p>

Michelle is a living consumer product marketing legend, honing her craft with brands such as Gilette, Oral B, Keurig, and now, HydraFacial, and teaches us how to respond to new consumer habits

Legendary consumer product guru MICHELLE STACY recently shared the story of how she started her job as product head at Keuring two weeks before the 2008 Recession hit.  On a recent podcast Designing Legendary Categories, Companies & Brands w/ Michelle Stacy, she drew parallels between that time and now, and the required new ways of thinking, connecting, developing and selling. Stacy ties customer longevity to the emotional connection you can foster with your product: "When you can get a consumer to fall in love with your product, then you have the opportunity...to become a Category King.” In her speeches she shares how marketing, branding and consumer product managers can respond and thrive.

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Biography

Michelle is a senior leader with the consistent ability to run and scale businesses.  She has driven strong growth at Gillette, P&G and Keurig by leveraging the combination of new product innovation, brand building, and overall excellence in marketing and sales execution.

Michelle is currently on the Board of Directors of iRobot Corp, Coravin, and Flex Pharma.  Previous Board assignments include both Young Innovations, Inc. and Tervis Tumblers. She has served as an Expert in Residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab and as an advisor to several early stage companies. 

In her previous position, Michelle was President of Keurig, Inc., a $2 billion division of Keurig Green Mountain [NASDAQ: GMCR].  During her five-year tenure, Keurig became a well known brand and delivered a CAGR of 61% in net sales and 74% in operating income,  propelling total GMCR sales from $493 million in revenue in 2008 to $4.3 billion revenue for FY 2013.

Prior to joining Keurig, Michelle had a successful 25-year career with Gillette including the Procter & Gamble acquisition of Gillette in 2005.