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Meet Julie KRATZ
As a highly acclaimed professor, journalist, and speaker on workplace culture for over a decade, Julie Kratz leaves audiences inspired and ready to take action.
After spending 12 years in Corporate America, experiencing many career “pivot points,” due to her own lack of belonging, Julie started her own company to improve workplace culture and talent retention. Julie helps organizations foster more inclusive environments so that everyone can feel seen, heard, and know they belong.
She is a professor at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, writes a weekly Forbes column on workplace culture, is a frequent keynote speaker, podcast host, Founder of the annual International Allyship Day program in NYC, and the creator of the Lead Like an Ally training program. Her TEDx talk, What If Through Claiming Our True Gender, We Claim Our True Strength, has been viewed thousands of times. She holds an MBA, is a Certified Master Coach, and is a certified unconscious bias and psychological safety trainer.
Julie is the author of 7 books, including We Want You: An Allyship Guide for People with Power, Allyship in Action: 10 Practices for Living Inclusively, and the Little Allies children’s book, and more.
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“Speaking engagements with Julie are great! I am consistently impressed with how she addresses the questions that come up with tact and understanding. We never have to worry that Julie will say something that someone will get offended or upset by – she knows how to engage all people in this conversation.”
– Katie Martoche, Executive, Team Avalon
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Book Julie Kratz as the inclusive leadership speaker for your live or virtual leadership event, keynote address, breakout, or workshop.
We Want You: An Allyship Guide for People with Power
Power is a chance to be an ally. As a researcher and journalist for over a decade, Julie Kratz found that without leaders and people in positions of power engaged in inclusion work, it does not work. Fear, misunderstandings about personal power and a strong what’s in it for me continue to hold leaders back from being allies. Threaded with actionable strategies from her new research project and book about how to engage people with power as allies, Julie offers an intentional invitation and step-by-step plan for those with power to take meaningful action as allies.
Navigating Uncertainty: 10 Inclusive Leadership Pivots for Future Relevance
Leadership is about courage over cowardice. It’s about standing up for your values, even when it is hard. Armed with research-backed and pushback-proof insights, Julie shares 10 pivots that every leader can make to remain relevant and inclusive in a most certainly increasingly diverse and global marketplace. Leveraging her experience in the classroom as a business school professor and research from her Forbes column, Julie facilitates thoughtful, actionable takeaways so that leaders can lead with clarity through chaos.
Allyship in Action: How to be an Inclusive Leader
Inclusive leadership is the most sustainable competitive advantage during times of uncertainty. Those who fare well have a consistent, intentional commitment to inclusion. Yet, leaders often do not know where to start and fear making mistakes as hopeful allies. Armed with the business case and human case for inclusive leadership, allyship professor, speaker, and writer, Julie Kratz, shares everyday practices on how to be inclusive and pivot forward as allies.
“We always get very positive comments when Julie presents. I love the flexibility of her approach and how easy her team is to work with.”
– Joe Johnson, Chief People & Culture Officer, Mansueto Ventures, publisher of Inc and Fast Company
Julie’s Books
We Want You: An Allyship Guide For People With Power
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