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Julie Allen, president of Catalyst for Sustainable Change, is a dynamic and effective ‘change agent’ whose mission is transforming individuals to transform our world. She is a catalyst that will catapult individuals, teams, and organizations to achieve important goals through high performance with extraordinary results. Julie’s goal is to facilitate the development of an entire world of effective leaders. Given the current status of our world, it’s an obvious and important mission.

Julie ignites passion and commitment as she builds the leadership, communication, and collaborative skills needed to respond effectively to every challenge and opportunity. With more than 25 years of experience, she has served a diverse portfolio of clients including health care, manufacturing, professional service, associations, and nonprofits. Her customized services include speaking, training, facilitation, and coaching. With presentation style that is powerful, compelling, and engaging, she is able to build enthusiasm and commitment to change in the most diverse audiences. She knows how to light a fire under the non-movers and how to teach the movers to think outside of the box.

Areas of Expertise:

• WCompanies, associations, or groups desiring stronger leadership capabilities and competitive advantage.

Groups wanting discover new tools and strategies to discover creative solutions to old issues, envision powerful opportunities, and facilitate sanity for yourself and those with whom you interact.

Julie is often called a calming presence, a truth teller, and an energetic “nudge”. She uses these talents to encourage each participant to connect to their personal “ahas” and commit to transform their learning into important action.

Julie’s 25 years of experience with diverse organizations and individuals has resulted in a broad knowledge of many ways in which people create chaos, triumph, or mediocrity. Using stories that illustrate the best and the worst, she provides the road map to personal and professional success.

As a speaker and facilitator, Julie is dedicated to creating an open and thought-provoking environment that is interactive, engaging, and relevant. There will always be laughter, new understanding, serious reflection, a sense of community, and the power of sharing our collective wisdom.

I’M NOT EVEN A MANAGER, HOW CAN I BE A LEADER?
Dramatic changes have occurred in society and the workplace in the last 15-20 years. The new leadership is about keeping your eyes open for challenges and opportunities, engaging the right people, building the commitment to action that will move the needed mountains, and ensuring unlimited results. Real leaders are defined not by position or authority, but by their ability make things happen. Define the differences between management and leadership, explore leadership and management best practices, and analyze your personal opportunities to be a leader.

GOT MOTIVATION? GOT COMMITMENT? GOT RESULTS?
Society, businesses and employees have changed dramatically in the last 10 years. Diversity is a given, not just an interesting possibility. Given the changing environment and the need to maximize our “edge”, how do we ensure that our most important assets – our capabilities, our effectiveness, and our competitive advantage are consistently performing at peak performance levels? One size will not fit all. Learn to utilize individualized motivators, build real commitment, and facilitate amazing results.

MISSION POSSIBLE: WHAT AM I DOING WITH THE REST OF MY LIFE?
The world provides you with a vast array of options, opportunities, and challenges, all leading directly to the need to make decisions about what we want to do. Do you know who you are, and better yet, who you want to become? Are you mostly making up your life as you go along? Defining your personal mission provides you with a compass to help you stay focused on your personal “true north” - to prioritize clear and informed decisions and actions. Defining your mission can be your best competitive advantage for life.

STRESSBUSTERS: DEALING WITH CONFLICT, LONG HOURS, AND ANXIETY
We are hardwired to experience stress and the results can be very harmful – even though each of us believes that we are stronger than everyone else. How many times do you find yourself saying “I’m ok, I can handle it”, but really thinking “I am going to either blow up or die?” In addition, complexity of expectations in life and work has increased our opportunity for stress in the last 20 years. This session focuses on understanding the reality of stress on your life performance – the ways in which we sabotage, over-extend and, over-define our responsibilities and requirements.

“RESOLVED: INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES FOR NAGGING ISSUES”
We live in a competitive society – one that anticipates for every winner, there must be at least one or more losers. Creatively facilitating different points of view, conflict, and finding solutions to challenges can be your most important competitive advantage. Explore specific techniques for facilitating conversations that use differences as a source of creativity and new possibility rather than competition, conflict, and trouble.

“Julie Allen has fantastic insight. I have asked her back to speak several times to the MNSCU Women Leaders group A.C.E. Every presentation has engaged us with new and important ideas that a real difference in our leadership and our humanity.” Dr. Jo Peterson, MN State Colleges and Universities A.C.E

“Thank-you for your presentation on facilitation. It has been one of the best classes I have attended in the last year.” Three Rivers Park District

Julie was instrumental in helping our organization redefine its strategic focus and direction. She made us look at ourselves in a deep and different way so that we could re-imagine what was possible for us as an organization and as individuals committed to the organization. Hopkins Family Resource Center