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Monique
Rodriguez

Founder & CEO, Mielle Organics

Beauty Founder · CPG Operator

Monique Rodriguez is the founder and CEO of Mielle Organics, the textured-hair brand she built from a kitchen idea into one of the most beloved haircare lines in America, and one of the highest-profile founder-led exits in modern beauty.

A former registered nurse turned founder, she sold a majority stake in Mielle to P&G in 2023 and now leads the company as one of the largest minority-founded beauty brands in the U.S. She is one of the most credible voices on founder-led brand building, beauty innovation, and what it really takes to build with, and for, communities that have been underserved by the category for decades.

Speaking Fee

Upon Request

Format

Keynote · Fireside

Speaking Topics / 02

What Monique brings to the stage.

Founder-Led Brand Building in Beauty

How Mielle built a fiercely loyal community without a traditional marketing playbook and what every modern beauty founder needs to understand about authenticity, audience, and trust.

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Selling to a Strategic, On Your Terms

The honest version of the P&G conversation, what to negotiate for, what to protect, and what changes, and doesn’t, the day after a majority sale.

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Building For an Underserved Customer

Why the most defensible categories in consumer are the ones legacy brands ignored and how to translate community insight into category-defining product.

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Founder to Operator at Scale

What it takes to evolve from the founder who can do everything to the CEO who has to choose what only she can do. Practical reflections from inside the transition.