Director
CurrentJulia provides bespoke consultancy and coaching to small and medium sized social enterprises, charities and businesses. She takes some of the strain away from business leaders, giving them the reassurance that their peopleopportunities and risks are being taken care of, freeing up space for them tofocus on critical business objectives. Julia has the ability to translate business and organisational challengesinto compelling people propositions with a rare skill in adapting her styleto suit different cultural working environments. She operates with empathy and engenders it in those she’s working with. This is driven by her focus on human centred and servant hearted leadership. A HR professional with over 20 years' experience in financial services,Julia has worked in a variety of roles within the HR function. Her mostrecent role was senior People Partner to the Retail Chief Operating Officerin Lloyds Banking Group. Her skills span leadership development, executivecoaching, change management, organisational and operating model design, culture transformation, employee engagement and talent management. She has a strong track record of delivering business outcomes, achieving significant cost savings and increasing efficiency and effectiveness. She does this whilst balancing commercial outcomes with the colleague journey, ensuring that employee engagement is maintained or improved through the process. At her core, Julia is passionate about helping everyone be the very bestthey can be. In addition to her extensive corporate expertise, Julia has apassion for working alongside people and communities. Over the past 15years, she has undertaken a number of voluntary roles supportingorganisations that work with disadvantaged, socially deprived communities.