We help companies build teams of world-class talent.

Do you believe that talent is your most valuable asset?
Are your teams being led by the most innovative talent?
Has your organization laid the talent foundation for the future?
For twenty years, we’ve been helping great companies recruit great talent - and we’re just getting started.

Our Company, DEI and ROI

Michelle is a creative person, an artist. She knows the deal. You just get the sense of her creativity when working with her.
Michelle Stuhl & Company, Inc. is a female owned and operated global retained executive search firm.


We secure extraordinary talent for leading organizations. As trusted partners, we work within all sectors and build high-performing in-house teams.

We work with organizations and corporations to develop and structure Creative, Design, Digital, Marketing, Merchandising, and Innovation functions and processes. This includes developing the org structure and then identifying and placing the key leaders and team members in our thorough strategic search process.

We are committed to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). We have a high success rate of 60%+ in placing diverse candidates on search assignments.

We are proud that:
• 99% of our clients hire us for multiple assignments.
• 99% of our search assignments are completed successfully with an extremely high retention rate.

60%+

of our placements are diverse candidates

We are proud that:

99%

of our clients hire us for multiple assignments.

Our candidates have an extremely high retention and promotion rate

Clients and Types of Searches

  • NIKE
  • LVMH
  • Blackstone
  • PepsiCo
  • Target
  • The Obama Foundation
  • GE Healthcare
  • Intuitive
  • Novo Nordisk
  • Philips
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • MillerKnoll
  • Kohler
  • RH [Restoration Hardware]
  • Steelcase
  • Abercrombie & Fitch
  • The North Face
  • Walt Disney
  • Virgin
  • e.l.f. [Eyes Lips Face]
  • Calvin Klein
  • Tiffany & Company
  • UNIQLO
  • Estèe Lauder
  • MAC Cosmetics
  • Coach / Tapestry
  • Ralph Lauren
  • Tom Ford
  • Gap Inc / Banana Republic
    / Old Navy
  • Levi Strauss
  • J.Crew
  • St. Regis Hotels / W Hotels
    / Westin Hotels / Le Meridien
  • Mattel

 

  • Chief / President / SVP / VP
  • Chief Design Officer
  • Chief Creative & Brand Officer
  • Chief Marketing Officer
  • Chief Digital Officer
  • Chief Editor
  • President, Retail
  • President, Home
  • Senior Vice President, Marketing
  • Senior Vice President, Merchandising
  • Vice President, Innovation
  • Vice President, UX / UI
  • Vice President, Product Management
  • Vice President, Retail, Stores & Operations
  • Vice President, Hospitality Design
  • Global Creative Director
  • Digital Marketing
  • Global Brand Design / Strategy
    / Creative Services
  • Creative Director, Interaction Design
  • Creative Director, Retail
  • Global Store Design
    / Global Visual Merchandising
  • Women’s / Men's Apparel / Accessory Design
  • Director / Teams
  • Strategy / Innovation
  • Brand Strategy / Design Strategy
  • UX Design
  • UI Design
  • Digital Product Design
  • Brand / Graphic / Package Design
  • Industrial / Product Design
  • Marketing
  • Merchandising
  • Social Media
  • Design Research / Consumer Insights
  • Advertising / Image Advertising
  • Content / Brand Messaging
  • Design Operations / Project Management
  • Women’s / Men’s Apparel / Accessory Design
  • Home Design
  • Hospitality Design
  • Architecture
  • Interior / Environmental Design
  • Retail Design
  • Visual Merchandising


 

Michelle Stuhl

Michelle understands creative because she lives creative. That is her unique selling proposition. She understands that creative can be a strategic tool and that it is more than pretty pictures and beautiful words.

Michelle is committed to helping leaders build their businesses and grow their companies by identifying and recruiting the best talent on their behalf.

She places leaders and works with those leaders to build top-tier multidisciplinary teams, often from the ground-up. Consulting projects include restructuring departments to improve creativity and innovation. In addition, she guides clients on the selection of consultants for Marketing, Strategy/Innovation, Digital, Design, Corporate Identity and Product Development initiatives.

Michelle recently participated in the Design Management Institute dmi: Symposium 2022 Insights - "Shifting Design: reImagine & reInvent" panel on Design Majors and Careers Today, as well as in the 2020 dmi: Diversity in Design and in the 2020 dmi: Leadership Conference. Previously, she was a moderator for the dmi: New York Conference Panel on What Design Competencies Will Deliver in the Future.

She has written for Forbes Magazine, examining the rising role of the Chief Design Officer. She is a frequent guest lecturer at the prestigious Art Center College of Design, and is on the Advisory Board for the Arizona State University (ASU) Master of Science in Innovation & Venture Development program, which is a transdisciplinary partner between the Engineering, Business and Design departments at ASU. She has served on the advisory boards for the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA), the Arizona State University Museum of Art, and the Mesa Museum of Contemporary Art.

Michelle received her Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art from the University of Wisconsin Madison and her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design.

Michelle Stuhl