Founder and CEO of Meritas Advisory Group. One of the few consultants in the country with genuine mastery on both sides of organizational performance , the people side and the commercial side. 30 years of executive leadership. 20 years of global procurement. 600 plus leaders coached.
Meri M. Stockwell built her career at the intersection of two disciplines that most organizations and most consultants treat as entirely separate: people strategy and commercial strategy. Most people leaders do not understand procurement. Most procurement leaders do not understand organizational behavior. Meri spent 30 years mastering both.
Her executive career spans industries from Consumer Packaged Goods to Healthcare, Technology, Energy, Manufacturing, and beyond. She has led procurement organizations, coached executive teams, managed complex category portfolios at the global level, and built leadership development programs that changed how organizations perform.
In 2019 she founded Meritas Advisory Group with a clear mission: to help organizations stop treating alignment as a soft concept and start treating it as the most powerful performance driver in their business. The people side and the commercial side. Together.
She is the author of Build Teams That Click, a Certified Talent Optimization Consultant, a Certified Predictive Index Partner, a Positive Intelligence Coach, a Certified Sourcing Professional, and a Certified Energy Procurement Professional. She leads from the conviction that when the right people are in the right roles, pursuing the right strategy, with the right commercial discipline behind them, organizations stop managing performance and start compounding it.
Built Meritas from the ground up into a full-service alignment advisory practice serving startups to Fortune 100 across 12 plus industries.
20 years of procurement experience including a decade at the senior leadership level. $500M plus saved for clients across complex category portfolios.
Among the first wave of certified Talent Optimization Consultants. Certified PI Partner. Positive Intelligence Coach. CSP. CEP.
Published through Marlin Publishing House. Introduces the CLICK Framework used by leaders across industries to build high-performing teams.
Thirty years of executive leadership across Consumer Packaged Goods, Healthcare, Technology, Energy, Manufacturing, Professional Services, and beyond.
Every credential Meri holds is active, current, and applied in client engagements. These are not decorative certifications. They are the foundation of how Meritas Advisory Group delivers results.
Meritas Advisory Group exists because most organizations are leaving enormous performance on the table , not because they lack talent or strategy, but because their people, their strategy, and their spend are not aligned with each other.
Meri founded Meritas on the conviction that alignment is not a soft concept. It is the most powerful and most underutilized performance driver in business. When the right people are in the right roles, pursuing the right strategy, with the right commercial discipline behind it, organizations stop managing performance and start compounding it.
Meritas operates as a partner, not a vendor. Every engagement is built on a genuine understanding of the client's business, their people, and what success actually looks like for them. The work does not end at the deliverable. It ends when the results are real.
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Every great organization has a Chief Cultural Officer. At Meritas Advisory Group, that role is held by CC , named after Caitlin Clark, Meri's favorite basketball player and the force behind her beloved Indiana Fever. If you know Meri, you know the Indiana Fever are not just a team. They are a passion. And CC carries that name with exactly the kind of drive, energy, and refusal to be ignored that Caitlin Clark herself would approve of.
CC is also the star of Sunrise Saturday, a popular and deeply loved motivational video series filmed along the beautiful waterways of Pinellas County, Florida. Each week CC joins Meri on their morning walks and bike rides at sunrise, bringing her signature curly-haired energy, her love of the outdoors, and her completely unfiltered perspective on life and leadership. The series has built a loyal and growing following of leaders who appreciate the combination of genuine motivation and the world's most photogenic co-host.
CC appears in the People Powered Performance newsletter when the moment calls for it, which according to CC is more often than Meri would prefer. The Chief Cultural Officer's perspective on leadership, alignment, and the importance of work-life balance tends to be both unsolicited and entirely accurate.
CC's official duties include morale management, Sunrise Saturday co-hosting, waterway patrol along the Pinellas County coastline, cheering on the Indiana Fever, and ensuring that no iced coffee goes unattended for longer than 30 seconds.
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