Michelle Stacy is a business leader who knows how to scale growth and build brands that shape industries. As former President of Keurig, she grew the company from $200 million to $2.5 billion in revenue, forming strategic alliances with Starbucks, Dunkin’, and Folgers that changed the way the world drinks coffee. With more than 35 years of executive experience at Keurig, Gillette, and P&G, Michelle has led global business units, driven innovation at scale, and built high-performing teams that consistently deliver results.
Michelle brings that same boardroom insight to the stage. Her keynote presentations are built around practical leadership strategies and the real-world lessons that come from building billion-dollar brands. She speaks on innovation, strategy, leadership, high-performance teams, and women in business—delivering clarity, engagement, and action for today’s complex business environment.
She currently serves on the boards of iRobot, Skullcandy, and Milton’s Bakery, and has held director roles at Coravin, Hydrafacial, Tervis Tumblers, and Young Innovations. Michelle advises companies like Bellwether Coffee and Adventure Ready Brands on go-to-market strategy, customer experience, and scalable growth.
Her presentations are ideal for leadership events, innovation summits, corporate kickoffs, and organizations looking to energize their teams. With compelling stories, clear takeaways, and a message that resonates from the C-suite to frontline leaders, Michelle equips audiences to lead with confidence, navigate change, and drive sustainable success.
Her insights apply especially well to industries like healthcare, consumer packaged goods, technology, financial services, and nonprofit. She is a top choice for audiences navigating growth, culture change, or innovation-driven strategy.
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:
-Why it’s essential to be yourself (and how to do it!)
-How to balance 6 key components of leadership
-How to build a personal leadership statement
-Why “seeing the apple” is important when listening to opinions
-How to create engagement by bringing out “the star” in everyone
-How to build a powerful mission & value statement and bring it to life
-What you do, and how you do it, creates the culture
-What it means to “listen for greatness” from others
-The importance of the middle to drive business results
-How to use the Corporate Mission to create employee engagement and shareholder value
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
Michelle brings her expertise in building strong-growth businesses, like Keurig and Oral-B, to other companies. This year she will be an Expert in Residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab at Harvard University.
5 Strategies that Transform Innovation: Keurig, Gillette Mach3 and Oral-B
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