Michelle Stump-Kerry | A Plea: Build Trust Before Crisis

Time is precious for all of us. For Michelle Stump-Kerry, even more so. She’s spent her career dedicated to designing trials and brings a unique perspective.

Michelle is here with a vision, and a plea: that we build trust before times of crisis, and that we build systems to earn that trust.

About Michelle Stump-Kerry

Michelle is VP of Organizational Readiness and Enablement at Medidata where she leads large-scale strategic initiatives that help teams adopt new technologies, processes, and mindsets—ensuring organizations are not only equipped for innovation but prepared to deliver on it. She brings over 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, including big pharma, CRO and Central Laboratories, with leadership and technical expertise in global data management, clinical trial management, clinical monitoring, investigator and client training, strategic planning, road mapping, technology and innovation.

Most recently, Michelle was the External Applications Portfolio Lead for a market leading Central Laboratory, where she was the business owner for a multimillion dollar portfolio of products for data integration, analytics, as well as investigator and client portal technology.

Michelle leverages her distinct global background and breadth of experience bringing a unique point of view to her professional endeavors to build meaningful, innovative alliances, partnerships and strategies.

Filmed at Innovation Network Gathering | West Chester, PA, USA | October 2025

Credits:

- Event Production: Smith & Jones Innovation
- Direction & Speaker Support: Jeff Smith
- Production & Stage Management: Michelle Jones
- Stage Design & Lighting: Steve Harper | Indigo Design
- Video Capture: Armosa Studios
- Video Editing: Kyle Blackburn & Sigfried Seeliger
- Screen Assets & Video Engineer: Hunter Loveridge | Picture This
- Sound Engineer: George Koenig | Uptown! Knauer Center for Performing Arts

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