Why are so many professionals lacking leadership skills?
It’s complicated.
Team leaders and decision-makers are experiencing a deficit when advancing professionals in the workplace.
These dynamic individuals are smart, educated, and qualified. They seek greater leadership opportunities. The challenge is that many of these rising stars lack specific leadership and communication essential to long-term success.
Chinook Executive Solutions understands this deficiency. Founder Julie Holunga experienced this gap in competency early in her career. The skillsets, practice, and confidence to master greater leadership opportunities are often not taught in secondary education or post-graduate studies.
When a new leader is placed in a role with increased responsibilities, they need guidance, resources, and a proven support system to generate expected results. With a leader-driven framework, they can address the common emotions of feeling overwhelmed, under-skilled, and not set up for success.
We believe in changing this reality to help your organization and people hone the confidence to grow.
Mastering Leadership: The Trusted Voice Paradigm for Professional Growth
The Trusted Voice Paradigm is designed to amplify influence and impact within professional services firms.
Discover how Julie helps organizations invest in their people as strategically as they do in technology or infrastructure. Using tools like Emergenetics®, she reveals how to reduce miscommunications and enhance team dynamics by understanding communication preferences.
Julie’s approach progresses through four levels:
Trusted Talent – Developing emerging leaders' confidence and skills.
Trusted Voice – Building influence beyond technical expertise.
Trusted Team – Creating high-performing, collaborative teams.
Trusted Culture – Establishing a cohesive culture of trust and growth.
This isn’t just about quick fixes—Julie’s transformative programs foster sustainable change through tailored training sessions, retreats, and long-term leadership support. She partners closely with clients, becoming an essential part of their team’s journey to success.
Ready to identify where trust is breaking down in your organization? Take Julie’s seven-minute assessment to discover where you might be losing top talent, fighting dysfunction, or falling behind competitors.
Julie Holunga advises business leaders, attorneys, and certified professional accountants to develop key leadership skills that match functional and technical expertise.
Julie Holunga works with new, onboarding, and experienced leaders, primarily in professional services, in mid-size and global firms, to develop key leadership skills needed to achieve industry-leading expertise. We guide clients to advancement opportunities in their roles while increasing work performance and positioning companies for success by developing future leaders. We work with clients throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia.
What We Value
We believe our best work highlights five core values. These are the drivers for our strategic partnerships, our messaging, and our solutions.
Expertise and Wisdom. Our clients trust us to be the leading voice in our solutions, namely leadership and business development for leaders, attorneys, and CPAs. This is only possible through experience and proven insight.
Positive Energy. We value the opportunity to feel good about what we do and who we serve. Even the most intense work is energizing when we know it’s worth the effort. We do not and will not put someone on our calendar who we hope will cancel at the last minute.
Initiative and Innovation. We actively pursue not only what’s grounded in evidence, backed with data, research, and proven ideas, but also fresh and cutting-edge new concepts.
Partnerships. We know our Chinook Executive Solutions approach is stronger with strategic partnerships and valued client relationships. Our job is to hold our clients to their best selves and see in them what they may not yet recognize. Our partnerships complement our strengths and add combined capabilities and positive energy to our work.
Productive Change. We lean into the guarantee that change is the only certainty in life. This expectation drives us to pursue the latest and greatest in technologies and development concepts. We also expect our clients to experience productive change and actively consider what may need to change for them to grow.