Lisa Marceau
MPH, PMP · Founder & CEO, Alpha Millennial Health
A 25-year healthcare operator on what is replacing the broken system, and who is building it.
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Lisa Marceau is an entrepreneur, speaker, and best-selling author of Breaking the System: How Digital Innovators Shape the Future of Health Care, driving mission-critical change in healthcare. As founder of Alpha Millennial Health and CEO of Joyuus, she brings 25+ years across clinical research, health tech, and executive leadership to businesses scaling, entering new markets, or changing direction. Her signature framework, the Four Components, defines what every company needs to grow.
Lisa Marceau is an entrepreneur, speaker, and best-selling author driving mission-critical change in healthcare. She provides clarity combined with action for businesses that are scaling, entering new markets, or changing market direction. Her focus is on the unsung aspects of business including organizational development, business strategy, and finding clear funding pathways.
Lisa brings over 25 years of experience in clinical research, health tech innovation, entrepreneurship, and executive leadership. In these roles and in her own ventures, Alpha Millennial Health and Joyuus, she has successfully managed millions of dollars in research grant funding and led the development of transformative medical devices, life sciences initiatives, and digital software products, including her own women's health SaaS platform.
An author and co-author of over 50 peer-reviewed publications in leading medical and behavioral health journals, she's presented her work at an equal number of high profile panels and conferences in research, technology, product, and healthcare.
Lisa Marceau is the founder and CEO of Alpha Millennial Health, the CEO of Joyuus, and the author of Breaking the System: How Digital Innovators Shape the Future of Health Care.
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Innovation alone is not enough.
Lisa's operating thesis. The lens she brings to interviews on healthcare entrepreneurship, scale, and why so many promising ventures stall.
“The premise: innovation alone is not enough. Companies succeed when they intentionally develop the components that make them resilient, scalable, and adaptable.”
Company infrastructure
The connective tissue that lets a company function, ship, and survive market realities. Systems, process, and the day-to-day machinery of execution.
Organizational structure
Roles, decision rights, and the operating cadence that turn a founder's intent into team behavior. Clarity at every level.
Strategic financial stewardship
Capital strategy, grant and non-dilutive funding, and the discipline of pricing, runway, and reinvestment. Money as a strategic instrument, not a status report.
Deep market understanding
Where the company actually wins. Buyer, payer, regulator, clinician, customer, and end-user understood as people, not personas.
What she can speak on.
Filter by beat to see the angles she is actively pitching, and the story each one could become.
The healthcare paradigm shift
What is replacing a system never built for outcomes, and how prevention-led, digital-first care changes the model.
Why the next decade of healthcare gets built by founders, not incumbents, and which legacy categories are most exposed.
The health of women as an economic imperative
Treating women as a distinct market, and the growth that surfaces across the whole healthcare economy.
The categories beyond reproduction that are still under-built, and the business case for funding them now.
The Four Components of scaling
Her framework for what every company needs to grow, built to surface the structural risks that sink them.
Why most healthcare startups stall at the same four-component gap, and what the survivors do differently.
AI as healthcare infrastructure
Where it helps, where it fails, and what it means for jobs and ethics.
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“The shift is already underway, and a new generation of digital innovators is building the systems that will define the future of care.”
“Innovation, leadership, and system design don’t happen in a vacuum. They are a collaboration, a collection of expertise, and a willingness to redefine, reshape, and reimagine.”
“Companies succeed when they intentionally develop the components that make them resilient, scalable, and adaptable.”
“The system is not collapsing. It is being rebuilt, and a new generation of innovators is doing the building. My job is helping them build something that lasts.”
Published remarks from 2026 coverage. Quote directly, with the outlet credited.
“Primary care clinicians are not unwilling to solve increasingly complex medical, behavioral, and social challenges. It is often why they chose medicine. However, without addressing time constraints, resource limitations, and fragmented information systems, they cannot achieve the intended goals.”
“The next generations are creative, driven, pragmatic and entrepreneurial. They’re not interested in solving the problems of a legacy system. They’re focused on solving problems for the healthcare system they will ultimately inherit.”
“We are at the tipping point of a cost trend that has been occurring for decades.”
Recent coverage.
Selected 2026 placements. Each one is a live example of how she frames an issue on the record.
Recognition and speaking.
Selected appearances: HPE Discover · HPE Technology Now podcast · KNOW Media · Women's Health Innovation Summit · Susan Sly Podcast
Breaking the System
How Digital Innovators Shape the Future of Health Care
The book argues the system is not collapsing but shifting toward prevention and digital-first care, with a new generation of innovators building what comes next.
On the record and on camera.
On-camera, podcasts, panels, keynotes, bylines.
Pacific time, 8 to 5 PT. Travels nationally and internationally.
- Interviews and embargoed quotes
- Op-eds and bylined commentary
- Keynotes, panels, and fireside chats
- Background briefings for reporters
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Lisa is comfortable on camera and on the record, with extensive experience across keynotes, panels, podcasts, and broadcast interviews. Interview requests, embargoes, and background briefings all run through Kyle.
Cite as Lisa Marceau, Founder & CEO, Alpha Millennial Health, and link to alphamhealth.com. Healthcare is one word.