Julia Sullivan - Alliance Director
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Biography
Julia Arellano Sullivan has over twenty years of experience launching successful businesses and helping individuals and organizations change. She works at all levels of an organization to create the thinking, direct communication and systems required to produce results.
Julia is a Lead Facilitator with AmericaSpeaks/Global Voices, a Washington, DC based firm specializing in large scale multi-stakeholder engagement. Julia has led 1000-person technology enabled meetings to provide fast cycle feedback to decision makers in a way that enlists broad support and concrete follow-up action for the collective vision that develops.
She worked on the start-up and first 2½ year operation of a Japanese-American joint venture, high technology plant in Puerto Rico. In the pulp and paper industry, she shaped the organizational design and developed a culture building selection and assessment process for a mill that has become an industry standard for mills in its class. Julia designed a worldwide symposium of the top 150 marketing executives of a high tech client to launch four strategic initiatives in the company. During a two-year follow up engagement, Julia led decision-making forums that resulted in double-digit business growth across multiple business units.
Julia has taught at executive programs offered by Stanford University, and Columbia University, where she analyzes business cases participants write depicting the complex issues currently confronting their companies.
In 2003, the Stanford Graduate School of Business awarded Julia the Jerry I. Porras Latino Leadership award to recognize her professional achievements and her contributions to the community. Julia earned an MBA from Stanford University, and a Bachelor in Industrial Administration from Kettering University. Her clients include Cisco Systems, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, Praemio Technologies, and other public sector and not-for-profit clients.
Julia and her husband Chris are sought after speakers at retreats and conferences where they share the experience, strength and hope they have acquired from successfully parenting a blended family of seven children.