Stacey Lawson is an entrepreneur, teacher, speaker and writer. She is dedicated furthering the principles of social enterprise, sustainability, awakened leadership and personal mastery within our business, media and political institutions. Her focus has included starting and running technology and social-impact businesses, teaching and writing about the value of personal and collective sustainability, and consulting with corporations and start-ups on more conscious ways to engage in the marketplace.  
 
     
  Stacey Lawson is co-founder of the Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (CET) at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is an Industry Fellow, lecturer and member of the Interdisciplinary Studies Committee on Entrepreneurship. In addition, Stacey is a member of the International Advisory Board and Visiting Foreign Faculty of TRP School of Business, SRM University in Chennai, India.

Stacey is a teacher, speaker and author in the areas of conscious business and personal transformation. She has created and taught programs in leadership, social entrepreneurship, organizational effectiveness and personal mastery. She authors a weekly column in The Huffington Post on "conscious living" and is a frequent guest on KEST Personal Growth Radio. Stacey has 10+ years of study and practice with Hatha, Kundalini and Siddha Yoga, and incorporates various mystical and wisdom traditions into her workshops, retreats and meditation courses. She is currently writing a book titled Inner Mastery.

Stacey is also an active advisor and investor in technology, sustainable development and social enterprise. She serves as chairman of the board for Chelsey.Henry Inc., and is an active board member of Catalog Data Solutions, CET, Social Fusion and the Institute of Noetic Sciences. She sits on the board of advisors for Ahuma Institute, Claremont Creek Ventures, Pharmacopia, and Tripura Foundation.

Previously, Stacey was Vice President and Division General Manager for Siebel Systems. As head of Siebel's Employee Relationship Management (ERM) business unit, Stacey was responsible for executing all aspects of the business strategy, product development, marketing, sales and service, growing revenue from $5M to over $100M within 24 months.

Prior to Siebel, Stacey held the role of Senior Vice President for Parametric Technology Corporation. During her tenure at PTC, Lawson was head of worldwide marketing with responsibility for corporate strategy and marketing. Lawson was also responsible for growing PTC's Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) applications business from inception to over $280M in annual revenue and 1200 employees.

Prior to joining PTC, Stacey founded and was President of InPart, a venture-backed start-up delivering strategic sourcing solutions to the industrial marketplace. InPart was acquired by PTC in 1998.

Stacey has been profiled in publications such as Forbes, BusinessWeek, InformationWeek, Harvard Business Review, and The Financial Times, and was selected as one of Working Women Magazine's "Top 20 Women Under 30" in 1999.

Stacey earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Washington and a master's degree in business administration from the Harvard Business School.