Julie provides Corporate Edge clients with powerful coaching and team development to drive optimum performance and full engagement for themselves and their teams. Clients include: Salesforce.com, DaVita, Visa, Zynga, Cisco, and Numi Tea. Julie is an expert at facilitating strengths-based coaching, enhanced communication skills and effective team dynamics. Key areas of expertise include:

• Executing on the right goals – identifying where to say yes and no
• Working with executives to repair damaged relationships 
• Building integrated and collaborative high trust teams
• Creating powerful and authentic relationships, managing up/down/across
• Building strategic systems to enable sustainable time/energy management
• Cultivating innate self-assurance and leadership credibility

 

 

 

 

 

 

Julie has 15+ years of professional experience in areas including product management and innovation, marketing and strategy.  Julie’s firsthand corporate experiences of what works well and what doesn’t provide a powerful foundation to support and grow clients. She built and led the Product Management team championing innovation at the American Automobile Association (AAA) – securing $6M+ of investment in project related R&D.  Prior to AAA, Julie worked in wireless software driving product marketing and lead generation programs. Previously, Julie was a consultant with Bain helping executive clients make decisions on strategy, operations and organization to support significant market out performance. Julie started her career in financial services working in analyst and institutional sales roles at Charles Schwab, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. Julie currently serves as a director for the Alliance of Chief Executives supporting leading Bay Area CEO’s to discover new opportunities and fresh perspectives for future strategic initiatives.

She combines this strong business foundation with certifications from The Coaches Training Institute, Marshall Goldsmith’s Stakeholder Centered Coaching Program and Myers-Briggs. Julie was also trained at The Grove in facilitating high performing teams. Julie received dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Economics and International Relations with honors from University of Southern California and an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Business. She completed advanced leadership coursework from the Center for Creative Leadership and from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. 

Julie is a certified yoga teacher.. She is also fluent in German and Spanish and has lived abroad in Germany and Ecuador. She was a competitive runner from the age of 10 and competed on the Varsity Cross Country team at USC.  She also teaches meditation and centering practices.