Julia Armstrong D'Agnese Email & Phone Number

Tucson, Az, Us

Tucson, Az, Us

Julia Armstrong D’Agnese is a thought leader in building and maintaining strategic partnerships, and driving “Big Picture” innovative opportunities to propel individuals and organizations into new paradigms of thought and operation. Earth Knowledge, which she co-founded in 2003, is her life/work passion: to bring exceptional collaborations and the best environmental data & information to the industries that depend on the earth, to help them make the very best decisions maximizing their production, efficiency and profit while mitigating their risks and costs. She is dedicated to bridging the vital research about our earth and related information done by academic, government agencies, NGOs and private companies with the industries that depend on the earth. Julia constantly utilizes her ability to gain the respect of, and constructively challenge, business and organizational leaders advocating and driving reinvention in the use of key products and technology. Her consultative and analytical bent of mind, passion for innovation, strong presence, and communication skills empower and inspire new opportunities, products, and vision. Her distinctive problem-solving and clear judgment have driven Earth Knowledge to meet and exceed client expectations.Julia is gifted at navigating the diverse and complex landscapes that bridge the business and technical worlds, building trust and respect with technical staff and non-technical leaders who ultimately authorize and use technology investments. She oversees multi-faceted groups involved in project collaboration, product development, and customer decision-making often facilitating cross-functional relationships and coordination at all organizational levels and geographies. Julia’s strong sense of design/branding and concurrent focus on the customers needs, empowers the creation of beautiful and highly useful UI/UX and business intelligence tools.

Tucson, Az, Us

Earth Knowledge Portal & Virtual Globe 2008-20131st to Market Sustainability Hub innovating in partnership with Google. Strategic partnerships and content curation w/ BBC, Guardian, Reuters, ARKive, WWF, Global Heritage Fund, focused on economic, social and natural data, multi-media information categorized, searchable and mapped on to Google Earth, engaging users to make wise decisions reaching ver 80% of countries of world.Google: Julia co-initiated a critical strategic partnership with Google once Google Earth was launched in 2006, becoming one of their first Google Earth Enterprise Partners. Google Geospatial Technologist Ed Parsons stated: “This is something I’ve been waiting to see since Google Earth API was introduced.”Kate Brodock, Director, Center for Social Commerce at the Newhouse School, Syracuse University, Forbes writer and President of Girls in Tech named her favorite three websites to display important content: BBC, Al Jazerra and Earth Knowledge.Paul Gillin, Lead social media author and social enterprise advisor to IBM and Oracle said: “Earth Knowledge is a great example of content curation. It takes content curation to a new level.”Google Earth Outreach stated “In our opinion, this breadth of data and ease of exploration gives us the ability to understand. With the act of understanding giving us the ability to make an informed choice and take responsibility for our own "home", we're so enthusiastic about Earth Knowledge's efforts to provide this to millions of people around the world.” Press Coverage was also made by Computerworld, Directions Magazine, Google Maps Mania, MSNBC, USA Today, Newsgator, International Business Times, Reuters, Yahoo! Finance and many other outlets.“Going Green” - Earth Knowledge was chosen for a 5 min. segment that aired on CNN. Trusted by Fortune 500 Company: VP of Sustainability at Apollo Group to help educate its 900,000 students, staff and faculty.

Julia worked with clients to help them create more successful businesses and lives. Her clients included corporate CEOs, as well as entrepreneurs, politicians, physicians, scientists, attorneys, academics, well-known members of the entertainment industry, venture capital management and individuals needing help launching a new business, paradigm within their industry or career. Core in her work is inspiring people to live their passion and build their businesses, careers, and organizations to collaborate with that passion. This philosophy secures more loyalty, happiness and success with her clients and those they hired. Julia's talents include taking a vision of innovation or industry paradigm changes and facilitate them to become reality. Included is advice to market and communicate these innovations, and a strategy regarding the change management required when incorporating new ways.Julia is exceptionally process-oriented and analytical, yet communicates easily to laypeople, which assists in strategizing & facilitating business development/partnerships, the dynamics of selling and use of innovation. She helps her clients "make things happen" to help transform the world.She helped corporate executives understand & incorporate the dynamics of success, necessary paradigm shifts and skills to build an organization with strong leadership, an empowering work culture with effective teams, and with a solid business model and practice.

She was part of Vafer Investment management team overseeing 4 start-ups. Julia advised Vafer management partners and the start-ups in Vafer's investment portfolio regarding organizational management, corporate team development, marketing & communicating their value to potential customers and investors.

Tucson, Az, Us

For 4 years, Julia was in management and helped grow Sierra Tucson from working in trailers with a staff of 30 to a highly visible, successful publicly traded company with staff of several hundred within 4 years. She was key in hiring and training process, maintaining the culture while scaling and worked directly with and oversaw process of managing staff working with celebrities, highly successful business owners, and many others who sought help from some type of sabotaging process in their lives/careers.Julia also did market research in Europe and provided a market analysis for Sierra Tucson Owner regarding potential expansion into Europe. Julia's recommendation, after 7 countries researched, was to not expand to Europe at that time due to barriers to entry, however if they did expand, Germany would be best option. Sierra Tucson did expand into Germany, however the facility was not successful enough and closed.

Post Masters Degree, Dynamics Of Success In Business, Collaborations, Brand/Marketing, Leadership, Management

M.S., Psychology

Spanish, Business With International Studies

H.S.