Stace Lindsay is a strategic advisor, teacher, and entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience working with senior leaders in business, government, and civil society. He currently serves as Executive Vice President for Leadership at the Aspen Institute. As a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, Stace has been guiding the launch, design, and facilitation of global leadership fellowships for more than 20 years. He is also a Senior Moderator, facilitating more than 150 Aspen Institute leadership seminars around the world for clients spanning Fortune 500 companies, NGOs, and entrepreneurial ventures, helping leaders navigate complexity and purpose-driven growth.
Previously, Stace held senior positions at Monitor Company and the OTF Group, where he collaborated closely with Michael Porter to adapt competitiveness strategies for emerging markets—work that led to co-authoring Plowing the Sea, the first Harvard Business School Press book on economic development. He has also served as Vice President of Business Development at Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, CEO of New England Portable Storage, and a partner in the Latin America-focused venture capital fund Explorador Capital. Most recently, Stace was also President of the investment, advisory, and leadership development firm Fusion Venture Partners.
A Rhodes Scholar with degrees in International Relations from Georgetown and Oxford, Stace has lived and worked across Latin America, Africa, India, the Middle East, and China. He is a founding board member of the Central American Leadership Initiative and has served on the boards of Global Citizen Year, TechnoServe, and the Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs. He has also taught at Georgetown and the University of Adolfo Ibáñez and lives in Bozeman, Montana.