Julie's passionate about working with individuals and teams to achieve their potential; you will find her to be calming, challenging, supportive, completely non judgmental creating a safe space for exploration and discussion. Her positive motivational personality is infectious, creating a real sense of purpose, focus and enjoyment for all those who work with her.
Combining her own experiences as a HRD, NED and that of a coach, Julie brings with here a wealth of practical understanding and realism to the issues that teams and individuals face. She has the ability to see beyond the immediate issues and gets the people she works with to change the aspects that really make a difference to their performance and overall wellbeing.
As an author, Julie has written about resilience and wellbeing in her book "The Tree of Resilience" and is an accomplished speaker on these topics. She also hosts engaging and highly informative, CPD events, workshops and training events, relating to resilience and wellbeing.
Julie creates an environment where individuals and teams feel able to take time out to explore and think about their development. Through creating a safe space and balancing objective challenging and insight with support, clients find they work on the underlying issues that really help them move forward to where they want to be. She enjoys working with people who want to work on themselves; improving their overall happiness as well as their performance at work. "Psychological well-being enables peak performance"
Influenced in her style by: Positive Psychology, building resilience, emotional intelligence, utilising personal strengths, Nancy Kline – Time to Think approach and NLP. She is constantly growing herself with her development and practice and is currently working towards a Diploma in Fusion Therapeutic Coaching.
- Board development, team development, facilitation and coaching for a variety of organisations eg, Diversy, Premdor, Rhodia, Laidlaw, Komfort, Yorks and Humber Letb
- Accredited coach for the NHS Top leaders Development programme Yorks and Humber LETB and an NHS Leadership Academy national associate coaches
- Executive Coach and Team Coach for Senior Leaders/Directors in a variety of NHS organisations (Acute and Primary Care Trusts, LETB and CCGs).
- Executive Coach and Team Coach / facilitator for senior leaders within other sectors including, education, manufacturing and construction related.
- Change management project for Sheffield Insulation Group, cultural change programme and various development and coaching assignments for Laidlaw Group
- HR Team development - 2 day event for global HR team of TUI Destinations Services.
- Laterooms.com Resilience and Wellbeing development programmes.
Prior to running her own business in Executive Coaching and Leadership Development she has over 20 years experience as a senior leader and Human Resources and Leadership Development in a variety of successful retailing / home improvement / business services organisations including; Marks and Spencer; the Mico Group and most recently Divisional HR Director with Eaga plc. Within these positions she has been a driver in developing and implementing their people strategies, enabling the businesses to achieve enhanced business performance.
Julie was a Non Executive Director for the Rotherham Foundation Trust, Nov 2007 – Aug 2013, where she was both challenging and strategic, assisting the board to develop and deliver its strategic vision and managing its governance requirements.
"The benefits of working with Julie are huge, both personally and in terms of impact with on my orgnaisation. I have found Julie to be personally supportive, extremely knowledgeable and a total professional with an holistic approach."
Amanda Bloor, Chief Officer Harrogate and Rural District CCG"Julie worked on a very sensitive change program at SIG and handled this brilliantly showing great understanding of how individuals and groups react during the process. Working with Julie has helped me understand more of how to handle change management and given me confidence to lead more change within the business."
Richard Walker, Development Director Technical Insulation SIG"Julie worked with a number of people to develop their managerial competencies, one of the aspects that sets her apart form other coaches is that she took time to understand our business needs as well as those of the individual."
Chris Mellard, Operations Director UK Masonite"Julie was very focused on achieving the agreed aims of the development programme. The team made significant progress in recognising both the strengths within the team and the areas where conflict could arise. Julie’s challenges to the team were appropriately handled so that the team could work together to find mutually acceptable solutions. The change in team dynamics and relationships noticeably improved."
Adam Wardle, Managing Director Health Education Yorkshire and the Humber"Julie supported me over a transitional period of my life and as my coach challenged my thinking and made me use all parts of my brain. She delivered exactly what we agree at the start."
Sue Rogerson, Healthcare consultant and Director