Julie Winkle Giulioni has spent the past 25 years improving performance through learning. She's partnered with hundreds of organizations to develop and deploy innovative training products that are in use worldwide. Julie is well-known and well-regarded for her creative, one-of-a-kind solutions that consistently deliver bottom-line results.As co-founder and principal of DesignArounds, Julie leads multi-disciplinary teams that create award-winning electronic and instructor-led training. She is an author and respected speaker on a variety of performance improvement, leadership, sales and customer service topics. Her understanding of an organization's training needs transcends industry and audience.Previously Julie was the director of product development for AchieveGlobal, one of the world's largest commercial training and development companies. She also held learning leadership positions in financial services and retail organizations, taught marketing at the secondary and post-secondary level, and served as a department chair at Woodbury University.When Julie is not working with clients, she's an active community member and PTA/soccer mom. A Southern California native, she currently lives with her husband and two children in South Pasadena.