Keynotes and Breakouts

Spark engagement with Julie’s actionable keynotes

JULIE’S SPEAKER REEL

Goodbye lazy leadership. Hello deliberate leadership with clarity in communication.

Julie combines her love of language and storytelling to connect with her audiences’ lived experience and scientific studies so they can take action. These game changing insights help leaders amplify their influence and impact. While Julie has presented on many topics, most speeches with large audiences draw on themes like using strong leadership language, navigating conflict, and leveraging relationship capital within one’s organization beyond networking. Drawing upon her work at Harvard Business School and subsequent coaching experience, she has her finger on the pulse of the ever changing landscape of the high-stakes business world. Her Trusted Voice Paradigm is helping leaders in the professional services industry become trusted advisors and thrive in their careers.

Past Speaking Engagements

Keynotes and Breakouts

Spark engagement with Julie's actionable keynotes

Want to help your leaders learn to be highly effective and productive through powerful communication?

Julie Holunga’s keynotes give your audience the strategies and tools to transition:

  • From Unresolved Conflict to Trusted Voice

  • From Weak to Strong Leadership Language

  • From Miscommunication to Team Alignment

To learn more about Julie’s keynotes, read the descriptions below.

Language of Trust

In today's dynamic and interconnected world, trust is the currency of success for healthy, happy, and high-performing teams. This captivating keynote explores the critical importance of trust in fostering collaboration, innovation, and resilience. In this interactive session, participants will learn:

  • Insights into their natural sense of trust

  • Impact of trust on decision-making

  • Psychology of trust

The bottom line is that trust is the driving force behind employee engagement and loyalty.

Ideal Audience: Professionals ready to create sustainable environments for high-performing teams.

Language of Conflict

Problems typically begin with an unaddressed conflict. Unresolved breakdowns in communication are costly, and if left unaddressed, can derail a team, division, or company. Miscommunication is a precursor to conflict, and is draining your resources: productivity, people, and money. Creating mutual understanding and awareness is essential to your success, whether you’re developing a high-performing team, resolving a potentially explosive employee issue, or negotiating with a client.

In this powerful Keynote Session, participants will gain insights into their natural responses to conflict, learn the strengths and preferences of their own communication styles, and build constructive behaviors to handle conflict. Participants will learn to:

  • Build personal and professional trust between employees

  • Develop and innovate solutions to everyday issues

  • Reduce time spent in (or avoiding!) conflict

Isn’t it time to stop paying the high cost of miscommunication and conflict? This dynamic Keynote Session is designed for professionals who are ready to stop avoiding inevitable conflict and invest in their success. When we are conflict competent, we are engaged, productive, and innovative problem solvers, and that can’t help but impact the bottom line.

Ideal Audience: Professionals who are ready to stop avoiding inevitable conflict and invest in their success.

Language of Leadership

The language you use every day needs to be better than everyday language. Strong leadership language establishes you as a respected leader. Conversely, weak language can get in the way of reaching your goals.

The ability to align your intention with your impact is the cutting-edge communication skill of the savvy leader.

During this interactive Keynote Session, participants will learn to:

  • Detect weak and self-sabotaging language

  • Identify and eliminate bad communication habits

  • Activate a powerful vocabulary to catapult their success

A leadership role is just a title until you are seen and heard as an influential leader.

Ideal Audience: Professionals who want to take the reins on their careers, know they can communicate more effectively, but don’t know how.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Yes! We are excited for opportunities outside of Denver, Colorado including across the United States and internationally.

  • Yes! Feel free to reach out!

  • This may vary based on audience size, timeframe, travel expenses and format (speaking, workshops, panels).

    Local: USD $7,500 (minimum)

    Travel: USD $10,000 (minimum) + expenses such as airfare, transportation to and from event, hotel, meals, etc.

    This includes prep time as well as pre and post conference calls.

  • All deposits and invoices are paid via ACH, Zelle, Venmo, or check paid in full or with a deposit (required to secure dates).

    Please see information on payment methods and terms in each contract.

    We may offer discounts and package options for multiple engagements/bookings and referrals.

  • Yes, every quarter I speak at one Conference which aligns with my mission and waive my fees (with the exception of travel expenses)

  • I would like to say yes…but it really depends on my calendar! Typically, I book speaking engagments as far out as 1 year

  • I customize each program and they range from 45-minutes to 3 hours.

Testimonials

  • “Julie’s presentation was engaging, educational, and effective. Events like this one make a big impact, especially for young professionals like myself!”

    Rachel Elkins - Digital Account Executive at McDill

  • “ Julie is brilliant balance in the work we do together with Emergenetics. Her depth of understanding, thoughtful approach, and focus on connection brings out the best in my own work.”

    Stephanie Polen - Certified Team and Executive Coach

  • “[Julie was] instrumental in helping me navigate some tough situations at work and helped me work through those while maintaining my relationships with colleagues.”

    Erin Barbeau - Performance Office Director at FIS

  • “ Julie is an expert in supporting her clients to discover what they truly want while seeing what is getting in their own way. She holds her clients to their commitments and is authentically excited to witness their success.”

    Valerie Cherneski - Executive Coaching and Career Strategy

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