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Julie is a Partner at McKinsey partnering with global clients to create highly disruptive strategic visions for growth and executing to make the a reality. She also founded and leads the Global Leap Business Building Founders Club and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion globally for Leap Business Building for the firm.
Recognized as an trail blazer company strategy architect quickly mobilizing a high performance cross function team to deliver highly disruptive revenue and profit margins.
She is a game-changer combining business leadership with inspired and high-performance values based human leadership. She encompasses 25+ years of deep technology experience as a global industry-disruptive business transformational builder, technology start-up and scale expert. She is the builder of 17 businesses, including 8 she led inside organizations such as Best Buy as Senior Vice President of Enterprise Growth. Eighty percent of her internal builds generated billion revenue in less than 5 years of inception and all continue to be foundational successes in the company today.
She was presented the Top Innovator of the year award, top employee leadership awards, and also had the privilege of being presented Best Buy's Chairman's Award as the Top Leader in the organization personally by the company founder, former CEO, and Chairman of Best Buy, Dick Schulze.
She is also a global healthcare SaaS technology founder and CEO, courageous Fortune 50 Senior Executive, Digital Strategy Consultant, CPA, and Corporate Board Director having founded and scaled to 178 countries PreciouStatus, a SaaS mobile business in healthcare and education.
Four of her business builds generated multi-billion revenue outcomes and have been profiled globally by Harvard Business Review, IMD, Switzerland, Bloomberg, Business Week, Time, & many others.
She is also known for reinventing organizations for diversity and true inclusive cultures while driving significant financial outcomes. Most notable is her creation of the WOLF innovation platform she created and scaled at Best Buy creating financial outcomes documented and profiled in Harvard Business Review, IMD Switzerland, and more than 25 books and periodicals. She then took this platform to impact Fortune 50 to private companies in 5 continents.
She is repeatedly tapped to architect and lead growth turnarounds, agile reinventions, and enterprise digital business transformations with a strong direct to consumer business model and cultural inclusion expansions for Fortune 500 B2C and B2B organizations and start-ups. She has led company strategy and transformations in technology, healthcare, retail, financial services, entertainment, fitness, consumer products, banking, services, and oil and gas. In each, she leverages technology for speed, scale, connection, and intelligence and am an expert in direct to consumer and artificial intelligence.
Her passion is to strategically build large growth businesses, and elevate and bring together people for good to create significant financial outcomes. Every business she has built had “inspiring and bringing people together,” leveraging technology, and building game-changing growth. Virgin Mobile-mobile youth, Magnolia Home theatre-families; WOLF-DTC women and men, of all races and backgrounds, inclusively innovating together for growth; or PreciouStatus-bringing together with families.
She began at the Big 4 firm, Deloitte, scaling a new business and working on the Office of the Chairman accounts and created the first software program to automate highly complex merger and acquisition asset tax classification.
Honored to be an Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow, she is also a frequent TED keynote speaker and highly sought-after global keynote speaker by Fortune 500 and global organizations.
She serves the Asbury Communities Board, is a board Trustee for the University of Minnesota and St. Thomas University School of Business boards, board member of the global Child Neurology Foundation, and has served on bank, Private Equity Boards, and is a Governance Fellow with National Association of Corporate Directors.
She is a mother to an amazing son, an audiophile, nature-lover, nutrition and food connoisseur, & competitive athlete.
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