Meet Mindy

Speaker, WSJ best-selling author, and CEO-advisor

Mindy Mackenzie

Founder & Principal, MM Enterprises, Inc.

Mindy Mackenzie is a sought-after speaker among major corporations and conferences. As author of the 2016 WSJ bestseller The Courage Solution: The Power of Truth Telling with Your Boss, Peers, and Team (Green Leaf Press), Mindy is an expert on truth-telling in the workplace and how that enables leadership teams and organizations to create high performance cultures. Her fresh, authentic and straightforward style cuts through the noise of typical keynotes taking her audience on an exciting, entertaining and information-packed experience – getting at the heart of what her audience really wants to know.

Currently, she serves as the Interim CEO of Beautycounter, the trailblazing clean beauty brand. Before this role, she was a Partner and Chief Performance Officer at The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest private equity and financial services firms. At Carlyle, Mindy specialized in maximizing organizational, operational and leadership effectiveness at Carlyle’s portfolio companies.

Mindy is an expert on truth-telling in the workplace and how that enables leadership teams and organizations to create high performance cultures.

Prior to joining The Carlyle Group, from 2014 – 2017 she was founder and principal of her own firm focused on advising CEOs and their teams on how to unlock and accelerate performance through increasing positive leadership impact. She also served as Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company during this time.

Earlier, Mindy was global head of strategy, M&A and human resources at liquor giant Jim Beam, where she earned the nickname of the “Velvet Hammer” because she crushed the norm of avoiding sensitive topics but did it with style and grace. As a public company officer, Mindy was part of the Beam executive team that led consistent outperformance, market share gains and double-digit earnings growth.

Mindy’s obsession with inspiring leaders to increase their personal fulfillment while improving their professional impact, led her to launch her passion project, You First – An Integrative Leadership Summit. This exclusive, invitation-only event, enables 12 women of influence to experience a five-day leadership journey designed to renew and recharge from the inside-out, all in the exhilarating environments of Aspen, Colorado or the East Cape of Cabo, Mexico. Click here for information on upcoming summits.

Mindy holds a Bachelor’s degree from Ambassador University and a Master’s degree from the University of Louisiana. As a recent ‘empty nester’ she is learning to garden, reads voraciously, sings and plays the piano, and enjoys beach life whenever she and her husband can live ocean-side.

 

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