Julie Holunga is a leadership advisor who develops professionals to amplify their influence and impact. She works with teams and leaders to instill her Trusted Voice Paradigm to increase effective communications, make conflict constructive, and develop leaders who lead with integrity. Julie is on a mission to rid the world of Lazy Leadership. Through these programs, leaders get out of their way, develop trusting relationships with key stakeholders, and positively impact the organization's bottom line.
Coaching Style
Julie loves collaborating with professionals who want to take control of their careers. They want something more, even if they aren’t sure what that looks like when they first start working with together. With both individuals and teams, Julie’s clients work hard to make change and take ownership of their careers by leading deliberately. She supports her clients through education and training of new skills and awareness, as well as holding them accountable and demonstrating what they can’t see for themselves.
Areas of Expertise include:
- Women's leadership initiatives. Establish and promote programs to advance careers of women by considering communication, brand, and presence.
- Success in New Role. Define success and identify blind spots. Develop action plan for impact and influence. Accelerate professional development.
- Communicate clearly and effectively. Learn to communicate with teams and individuals to be heard, increase collaboration, productivity, and alignment. Utilize Emergenetics® Profile Framework.
- Succession Planning. Build pipeline by identifying and developing high potential employees. Design advancement and retention process for organizational growth.
- Build book of business and brand. Build systems and metrics to effectively and efficiently build brand awareness and book of business.
Prior Background
Julie’s career has always involved coaching a diverse group of high-level individuals looking to impact change. At The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, she worked with senior leaders at Fortune 500 corporations to develop, implement, and improve corporate citizenship initiatives. Following her work at The Center, Julie served as the project manager for Alumni Career Services at Harvard Business School focusing on the careers of alumnae. She built relationships with leaders at Wall Street firms leading the efforts to advance women into positions of leadership, and advised alumni who were in transition. Julie started her career working at Harvard University in the Capital Gifts group, assisting high-net worth alumni impact change.
Education, Training & Certifications
Julie is a certified Co-Active Coach from the Coach’s Training Institute, and aPCC Coach from the International Coaching Federation. She is also a certified Master Trainer with Emergenetics utilizing an assessment profile which reveals client’s strengths by examining their preferences within seven thinking and behavioral attributes. Check out her TEDx talk, Don't Let your Words Sabotage Your Career. Julie received her Bachelor’s degree in French Literature and Economics at Union College, and her MBA from Boston College, Carroll School of Management.
Representative Clients & Sectors
Small and mid-size organizations, professional services firms, and Fortune 500 companies, including Brownstein, Davis Graham, Google, Hawkins Gordon, Invidi, Janus Henderson, JP Morgan Chase, , Morgan Stanley, Stepstone Group, Zoll