Today’s guest is passionate about promoting gender equality within the workplace, empowering women to express confidence, and helping them build a winning career game plan.

After experiencing many career pivot points of her own, she now is focused on promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace as a keynote speaker and executive coach. She holds an MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, is a Certified Master Coach, and is a certified unconscious bias trainer.

She is a TEDx speaker, host of the Next Pivot Point podcast, and author of three books  “Pivot Point: How to Build a Winning Career Game Plan,” “ONE: How Male Allies Support Women for Gender Equality,” and “Lead Like an Ally: A Journey Through Corporate America with Strategies to Facilitate Inclusion.”

Please join me in welcoming Julie Kratz.

In this episode we discuss:

• her thoughts on leadership: “Leadership is not a positional authority. It’s the influence you gain in getting people to buy into your vision by asking about the things that they care about.”
• how a riddle she heard at 8 years old created feelings that propelled her into her mission of helping women.
• how her time in DECA was her first taste into business in 5th grade.
• the importance of listening to others and how that can help provide safe spaces for others at work.
• the importance of allyship.
• the impact of taking chances and making connections with people.
• her recommendation to others to find the thing that lights their soul on fire suggesting going back to your childhood for clues.
• her folder of strategic contacts and how reviewing that often has helped her be intentional in contacting them.

Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.OnTheSchmooze.com – episode 229.