When every person can achieve their dreams, live their best life – that is true success.

Michelle Settecase

EY Global Women. Fast forward Strategy & Insights Leader

Advocate and catalyst for gender equality. Passionate about lifting others and being kind.

Areas of focus

As the Global Strategy & Insights Leader for Women. Fast forward, Michelle channels unique intelligence into programs and policies that close gender gaps in entrepreneurship, leadership and developing next-generation talent. 

She has advised public and private sector leaders for over 30 years, addressing how technology impacts women’s careers, architecting new channels for policymaking and developing procurement recommendations to foster female entrepreneurship. Michelle provides senior executive leaders tangible insights and actions for lasting change.

She is responsible for unique insights and innovation across Women. Fast forward. This includes creating new programs, adapting existing efforts to new markets and working with external stakeholders. Michelle combines leading thinking with personal experiences to eliminate barriers to success. 

She has a Master of International Management from Thunderbird and a Bachelor of Arts from Miami University.

How Michelle is building a better working world

“I create and develop new avenues for women to achieve their definition of success, and not be limited by stereotypes or assumptions. The world is not equal, but active choices enable us to have more power in our lives.

Through insights and connecting opportunities across organizational lines and building an ecosystem for women to be successful, I’m building a more equitable world."

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