Meet Julia

My career started with equal parts experimentation and luck.

Born and raised among the world-changing innovation of Silicon Valley, I was one of the first in my family to go to college and always found myself drawn to psychology to better understand the complexity around me. After earning my degree, but before committing myself to years of graduate school, I set out to explore the world of business.

I joined Salesforce just under the 5,000 employee mark and found myself on the ride of a lifetime. I spent the next 5 years running in lock-step with the Chief Revenue Officer and quarterbacking a global go-to-market team mandated to create a new category — the Salesforce Marketing Cloud. After a few massive acquisitions, multiple re-orgs, blood, sweat, and a couple of tears, we became the company’s first non-native $1B cloud within 3 years. I was young and surrounded by the best and brightest executives in the world — true titans of industry. Success felt inevitable and I had a front row seat to the greatest (and seriously questionable) leadership at the time.

My biggest learning? That business is a people’s game and success isn’t inevitable—it’s psychology.

I went on to pursue my master’s in counseling psychology to return to the study of people, our human behavior, and how to help individuals in order to shift the collective. After graduate school, I spent my career holding just about every seat at the table. From the first hire at a digital health focused venture capital firm to serving as Chief of Staff to a venture-backed AI company in pharma and consumer packaged goods, I've been an interim CEO at an early stage wellness company, an Associate Marriage & Family Therapist, and Talent Partner to a private equity firm.

Now, I work with leaders all over the world to help them navigate some of the most high-stakes moments of their careers. I've worn many hats over the course of my career but what I love the most is working with ambitious leaders, fueling their potential, and unlocking their obstacles in pursuit of their greater purpose. In 2020, I started Congruent Leadership where I continue to think about the point of it all – work, life, our passions, and our purpose.

I have come to believe that the point of life is to move toward the fullest expression of our purpose and make a contribution to that purpose that is uniquely and only ours to make. Congruent Leadership is mine and working to help you navigate yours gives me endless energy. What I know for sure is that I’ll always keep learning from the people and experiences around me. And even as my purpose evolves, I know I will forever be exploring the things that unlock our limitless potential.