Julia Ka'Iulani Nelson Email & Phone Number

Berlin, Germany

Berlin, Germany

Leading AMBOSS' crack team of market and user researchers!

London, United Kingdom

• Established design research as strategic function at MOO, providing insight to drive company strategy, digital and physical product development, service design and marketing
• Grew Research department from 1 to 4 researchers; onboarded, mentored and retained junior, midweight and senior staff
• Managed team to deliver +25 projects each year, within budget, leveraging a broad toolkit of qualitative and quantitative methods
• Personally led ± 10 projects annually, including MOO’s first… Show more
• Personally led ± 10 projects annually, including MOO’s first market segmentation & sizing study and complex ethnographic discovery work on products and services for graphic designers
• Pitched MOO’s first horizon scanning project to C-suite identify future trends that will transform our context and our business.

London, United Kingdom

• Led MOO's in-house Research team
• Conducted qualitative and quantitative research spanning market segmentation & value proposition development, physical product design, digital product design, service design, and marketing campaign testing
• Leveraged a broad toolkit of methods (e.g. ethnography, in-depth interviewing, cultural probes, JTBD / ODI, classic usability testing, card sorting, tree testing, surveys, co-creation) for delivery

London, United Kingdom

• Explored alternate market segment opportunity & value proposition pivot through in-depth interviews with startup founders for insur-tech startup InMyBag at London VC firm.

Malmo, Sweden

• Developed value proposition & business model for unique service that will establish a new revenue stream at IKEA, deepen customer brand engagement, and enable customers to live more sustainably

Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Defined market entry strategy for start-up producing groundbreaking bio-adhesive for wood panel furniture (cambond.co.uk)
• Accelerated licensing negotiations and prioritised European markets for product launch

• Led implementation of Barrick's global community relations assurance program, directing teams of 1-3 personnel to conduct field evaluations of social management at projects and operations in Africa, Oceania and the.
• Conducted in-depth staff and community interviews, focus groups, participatory exercises, document and systems reviews, translating findings into actionable recommendations for the business
• Advocated for findings with… Show more
• Advocated for findings with senior site and corporate management; coached site teams on measures to reduce operations' negative social and environmental impacts on communities
• Drove two initiatives to improve the assurance model by focusing on outcomes and integrating the environmental, health & safety, security, community and human rights assessment processes, reducing staff resources and.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Managed global consulting teams to win and deliver 20+ client engagements with budgets up to $350K at leading corporate responsibility and sustainability consultancy; specialised in community engagement & development.
• Served as primary account manager for 1/3 of practice clients; personally developed >$250k of business annually with corporate clients and multilateral institutions; helped double team revenue to… Show more
• Served as primary account manager for 1/3 of practice clients; personally developed >$250k of business annually with corporate clients and multilateral institutions; helped double team revenue to >$2 million.
• Provided thought leadership for the mining practice, including projects with the International Financial Corporation and the World Bank's Oil, Mining, and Chemical Policy Division.
• Facilitated two complex, multi-year, multi-company working groups aimed at improving global supply chains: Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition (2007-2010), and the Mills & Sundries Working Group (2010-2012)
• Promoted from associate to engagement manager within 2.5 years Show less

• Facilitated implementation of the Faculty Director's initiatives in community-based research, philanthropy, service-learning and youth education
• Managed the Center's student, faculty, and national boards; produced quarterly board briefings and meetings
• Co-taught courses on scholarship for social change, community-based research and service-learning.
• Designed and launched an online survey on lifelong impacts of public service involvement at Stanford on alumni; 7000+… Show more
• Designed and launched an online survey on lifelong impacts of public service involvement at Stanford on alumni; 7000+ responses analysed and published by the Center Show less

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Social Innovation Concentration

• Graduated in top 10% of class • Awarded prize for Best Dissertation: "Business as Unusual: Creating Corporate Capacity for Social.

Graduate Certificate - Community Relations

• Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, Sustainable Mining Institute

Bachelor’S Degree, Anthropology (Honors & Distinction), Minor In Archaeology

• Honors Thesis: "Mingas, Marimba & Menguante: Valuing Subsistence in the Awa Community of Pambilar, Ecuador" (2005) • Stanford Overseas.

Graduated With Honors

Varsity Cross Country; Varsity Track & Field; JROTC & Ranger Competition Team