Michelle Stacy

Michelle Stacy is a senior business executive and keynote speaker whose 35-year career includes leadership positions at Keurig, Gillette, and Procter & Gamble, where she built a proven track record of driving innovation, brand growth, and organizational transformation. Her presentations draw on real-world experience scaling iconic consumer brands.

Transformative Leadership at Keurig
As President of Keurig, Inc., a $2 billion division of Keurig Green Mountain, Michelle had full P&L leadership and grew the single-serve coffee system from 2 million to over 16 million installed households in five years. Under her tenure, Keurig delivered a compound annual growth rate of 61% in net sales and 74% in operating income, propelling total company revenue from $493 million to $4.3 billion. Her commitment to leadership and culture resulted in Keurig being named a top 10 workplace in Massachusetts twice.

Career-Spanning Innovation Excellence
Prior to Keurig, Michelle spent 25 years at Gillette through the Procter & Gamble acquisition, culminating as Vice President and General Manager of Global Oral Care, where she directed activities for Crest and Oral-B across 70-plus countries, led 700 people, and oversaw $220 million in net sales. Her keynotes focus on five proven strategies that transform innovation, build powerful brands, and create cultures of high employee engagement.

Keurig, Gillette 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, 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

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 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

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 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