Corporate Leadership Training

Build Trust. Strengthen Collaboration. Create More Connected Teams.

Julie Marvel, M.Ed., is a corporate workshop facilitator and speaker specializing in intentional human connection. She helps leaders and teams build trust, stronger workplace relationships, collaboration, and community where people feel seen, heard, and valued.

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Corporate Training & Keynotes

Programs Built Around Intentional Human Connection

Leadership Training

Connection to Collaboration

A facilitated 90-minute workshop for managers, executives, and teams. Participants practice the everyday skills behind trust, mutual respect, open communication, shared purpose, and stronger collaboration. Each session is shaped together with the organizer around your audience and goals.

This program’s methods and outcome measures are currently being developed and validated.

What Participants Practice

Lead With Connection: Recognize contributions, help people feel seen and heard, and create intentional moments of connection.
Build Trust Through Communication: Listen, invite participation, handle constructive disagreement, and talk openly about setbacks.
Create Community Through Collaboration: Establish shared purpose, strengthen cross-team relationships, and turn connection into clear commitments and action.

Best for: HR and Learning & Development leaders, executives, department leaders, and teams.

Signature Keynote

The Power of Intentional Connection

Connection, Community, and Relationships in the Age of AI.

An inspiring, practical keynote for conferences, professional associations, and leadership gatherings. As AI changes how we work, Julie invites audiences to give human connection intentional attention through storytelling, reflection, and guided conversation.

Audience Takeaways

Ask thoughtful questions and listen with curiosity
Make space for honest conversations during change
Choose practical habits for connection in everyday work

Best for: conferences, professional associations, leadership gatherings, and corporate retreats.

Additional Speaking Option

Your Next Chapter

Stories of Reinvention, Courage, and Beginning Again

Change can challenge our sense of identity and open the door to a new story. Through personal reflections and stories of women navigating transitions, Julie invites audiences to consider what they are ready to carry forward, what they can release, and one brave step toward what comes next.

Best for: women’s events, associations, and retreats focused on life or career transitions.

Formats

90-minute leadership training workshop
45–60 minute keynote
Facilitated retreat conversations
Panels, live interviews, and podcast guest appearances

Programs are tailored in consultation with each organizer to fit the audience and event goals.

Why Julie?

Julie is a leadership speaker, trainer, storyteller, interviewer, and educator. She pairs a master’s degree in education and a teaching background with hands-on community-building experience helping people enter rooms, begin conversations, and form meaningful relationships. She is also a podcast interviewer who knows how to ask thoughtful questions and make room for honest stories.

Julie’s community-building experience:

10,000+

members in the Facebook community Julie grew

About 500

women who actively participated in community events

5–7

community events offered each week

volunteer event hosts Julie trained and supported

Julie trained and supported the 20 volunteer hosts in culture, warm and inviting connection, and event logistics, with monthly meetings and idea exchanges.

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Community Voices

Feedback from members of Julie’s former women’s community about the connection they experienced.

“Julie created opportunities for women to develop real friendships and share experiences with people they might never have met otherwise. She has truly made a difference.”

“I met so many wonderful women and made good friends who mean so much to me. Julie has a gift for helping women connect.”

“Julie has the most genuine heart. I found her community before moving to Florida, and I will never forget how welcomed I felt when I arrived.”

Interview & Podcast Conversations

Julie brings a storyteller’s perspective and an interviewer’s curiosity to live conversations.

The human need for connection as work and technology change
How storytelling helps people look beyond roles and find common ground
Creating a warm welcome in teams, groups, and communities
Friendship, belonging, and loneliness in midlife
Beginning again after a personal or professional transition
Turning life experience into purpose and a meaningful next chapter

For HR, Learning & Development, and Event Leaders

Bring Julie Into the Conversation

Planning leadership training for your managers, executives, or teams? Tell Julie about your audience and the experience you want to create. Keynotes, retreats, panels, and podcast conversations are also welcome.

Book a 30-minute Zoom conversation with Julie to discuss your audience, event goals, and the training or keynote that fits your gathering.

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Discuss a Training Engagement

Share a few details about your organization, audience, and goals. Julie will follow up personally to explore the training, keynote, or conversation that would serve your people best.