Level Up → Impact™ is designed for experienced leaders whose role is demanding more. It moves you from how you lead today to a more intentional, deliberate way of leading, one that measurably increases your impact across your team and your organization.
What You Will Develop
Leadership in Real Situations
Knowledge is the starting point of leadership, not the substance of it.
Real leadership takes shape in every moment: communicating with clarity, making the call, delegating with trust, holding the line on accountability, and reading the dynamics of a team in motion.
This program sharpens those instincts through reflection, proven frameworks and tools ready for immediate hands-on application, guided discussions, and coaching on the real leadership scenarios you are navigating now, so you lead with greater clarity, confidence, and impact.
Practical Frameworks & Tools
Leaders walk away with proven tools they can put to work immediately after the session. They will positively impact the outcomes inside your own team and your entire organization.
Topics include:
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Me as a Leader--style, purpose, direction
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Vision creation and buy-in
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Alignment through motivation
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Ensure execution with empowerment
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Expectation management
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Influence through effective communication
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Navigating change
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Balancing being strategic and operational
Every session is built around refining and enhancing your leadership impact by intentionally using frameworks and tools in the moment they are needed, not just learning about them.
Coaching, Application, & Support
Leadership development is not passive learning.
Each live session combines understanding tools, discussion, practical application, peer learning, and real-time coaching around current leadership challenges participants are actively facing.
Participants leave with practical next steps they can implement immediately.
FOR INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANTS
Ready to Lead with Greater Intention and Impact?
Level Up → Impact™ is built for experienced leaders who have decided to be more intentional in their impact whether preparing for their next role or simply striving for the next level of leadership, including:
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Senior Managers
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Assistant/Associate Directors
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Assistant/Associate Vice Presidents
The cohort format creates space for discussion, reflection, application, and professional growth alongside peers navigating similar leadership transitions. It also builds your network of leaders to continue your growth.
Next Cohort: Wednesday, July 22
Enrollment: $3,000 per participant
Spots are limited.
Reserve your seat to secure your place in the July cohort.
FOR ORGANIZATIONS AND HR LEADERS
Invest in the Leaders Driving Your Organization Forward
Most organizations know how to promote their best people into leadership. Far fewer invest in what comes next.
Capable leaders plateau, not for lack of talent, but for lack of structured development at the level their role now demands. That gap costs the leader momentum and costs the organization performance.
Level Up → Impact™ gives your proven managers, directors, and vice presidents a structured, cohort-based pathway to lead at the next level. Participants gain frameworks, tools, and live coaching they can apply immediately, so the investment translates directly into stronger teams and measurably better outcomes at multiple levels.
This program supports:
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CHROs and HR leaders developing their existing leadership bench
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Executives preparing high-performing managers, directors, and vice presidents for greater scope and responsibility
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Organizations retaining and stretching proven leaders rather than replacing them
What Participants Are Saying
"Since working with Julie, I am more confident in the values that ground my leadership style and better able to look past style differences and focus on institutional needs. Julie’s coaching helped me reframe difficult dynamics and identify my choices and opportunities."
Ilene Crawford
Provost and VP for Academic Affairs
“Through this coaching experience, I became more self-aware and intentional in how I approach my work, leadership conversations, and relationships. I gained clarity around what gives me energy, improved my critical thinking, and became more open and honest in discussions."
Cynthia Caldwell
Assistant Vice Chancellor
"Working with Julie was excellent! I have noticed a lasting change in my confidence and leadership, especially when dealing with difficult faculty and implementing change. Julie’s coaching helped me take charge of complex situations and navigate resistance with clarity and composure."
Sonia Hirt
Dean