Kathleen Lacey
Managing Director
Kathleen Lacey serves as Managing Director and has extensive experience helping global CEOs sharpen their profiles, strengthen their leadership platforms, and engage meaningfully with the audiences that matter most—from top‑tier media and policymakers to customers and investors.
Kathleen Lacey serves as Managing Director and has extensive experience helping global CEOs sharpen their profiles, strengthen their leadership platforms, and engage meaningfully with the audiences that matter most—from top‑tier media and policymakers to customers and investors.
Background
Previously, she was a Senior Managing Director at Teneo, where she was one of the firm’s original hires. She oversaw major media and speaking engagements for the firm’s top CEOs—including Davos, the Fortune Global Forum, and the Aspen Ideas Festival—as well as private dinners with leaders from business, finance, and government.
Prior to joining Teneo, Ms. Lacey worked at Edelman as Executive Vice President of Influencer Engagement within Corporate and Public Affairs.
Before Edelman, Ms. Lacey was the Founder and President of Lacey & Heilbron, a communications firm that served a wide range of clients across the banking, legal, philanthropic, academic, and government sectors.
Ms. Lacey began her career as a consultant in the public finance groups of investment banks, including Drexel Burnham Lambert and Paine Webber, and as a consultant to the alternative investments departments at Bear Stearns and Chase Manhattan Bank.
She currently serves on the Board of the International Center for Journalists.
