"I help talented people adjust their environment to be as effective as they know they can be."
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HistoricallyJulie’s twenty-one years at the General Motors Corporation (GM) informed and leveraged her abilities to strategize and implement change. Beginning as a facilitator of Value Engineering Workshops, Julie was tapped to manage Total Quality Management (TQM) for Engineering, Manufacturing and Quality to drive alignment and a shared purpose around customer excellence.
As an Organizational Development Manager for the Product Development Organization, Julie implemented a process to institutionalize GoFast™ (a change management process) for 10,000 engineering employees that improved the corporation’s bottom line by $20 million. Julie engaged and coached the leadership team, developed 200 engineers into a team of coaches and aligned Project Managers. Julie was also the Organization Development Manager for the Full Size Truck Vehicle Line Team (which managed products whose profits were over $5 Billion per year), widely acknowledged as a High Performing Team. After years of facilitating change management, Julie established Change Management Partners in recognition that the key to accelerating change is the engagement and alignment of all employees. However, this alignment must especially the hearts and minds of the leaders. This takes time and recognition that all organizations are a system, and Julie is committed to working at the individual, team and organization levels. |
KnowledgeJulie’s consulting is based on her training in business improvement tools and techniques from Deming to Six Sigma, Creative Problem Solving, the Center for Creative Leadership, and leadership behavior certifications such as Gestalt Executive Coaching and Myers Briggs. Julie has remained consistent in her focus on helping individuals move to their next level of capability and accomplishment.
After years of facilitating change management, Julie recognizes that the key to accelerating change is the engagement and alignment of all employees, but especially the hearts and minds of the leaders. This takes time and recognition that all organizations are a system, and Julie is committed to working at the individual, team and organization levels. CurrentlyJulie currently works with a broad range of clients (ex: Ford Motor Co., Masco Corporation, Blue Cross & Blue Shield, Accudyne Industries) including local, regional, and global companies; all functions from engineering to manufacturing to sales; leaders at every level - in the private and public sector. The focus is on increasing performance and profitability by facilitating workshops with Top Leadership Teams to co-create a vision, strategies and objectives, identify and remove roadblocks, consolidate and standardize work processes, engage and align employees and address cultural issues. These workshops are followed by one on one coaching with the Leaders to enhance their Leadership Competencies.
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