Certified Business Coach · Exit Momentum
I get $10M–$50M+ owners and their leadership teams to trade workplace drama for discipline, ambiguity for clarity, and hesitation for ownership.
Meet Julie, in her own words.
I work best with owners of $10M, $20M, $50M-and-up companies who are genuinely good at this, and who are lying awake over the people side. The tension on the leadership team. The conversation you keep dodging. The fact that every real decision still routes back to you. I've worked with hundreds of business leaders, and I'll tell you what it almost never is: a strategy problem. It's that nobody on the team feels safe enough, clear enough, or permitted enough to make the hard call, so everything stalls and waits on you. That's expensive. And it doesn't fix itself.
You're my kind of client if:
Hundreds of business leaders in, this is the pattern I see every time. Owners want to do the hard work and have the hard conversations, they'll get uncomfortable, they'll make the tough call, but only if you set them up with a structure to do it inside and a clear end goal to move toward. The problem? Most owners have spent their entire careers being told the same thing: check with so-and-so, get a consensus, make sure everybody's happy. That doesn't build alignment. It builds paralysis. So the business sits there, waiting on you, waiting on permission, waiting on certainty that is never coming.
So here's what I do, and exactly what you're signing up for: I help leaders give themselves permission to lead, and then I hold them to it. I'm direct. I'm going to tell you what I see, sometimes you'll love it, sometimes you won't, and that's fine, because I've already decided your growth matters more to me than you being comfortable in this moment. That's the job. That's real coaching. And what I'm always driving toward is courage, because courage is contagious. The minute one leader models it, the whole team moves.
The whole model, every coach: every EXM coach works the full 3D Momentum Model: Direction, Design, and Dynamic. Julie goes deepest on discipline, clarity, and ownership across the leadership team. See the 3D Momentum Model →
I'm a New Orleans native, and I came up the operational way, the hard way. My leadership career started at Walt Disney World in 1999, in Transportation Operations, which put me dead-center in the operational aftermath of 9/11: policy shifts, safety protocols, and frontline team morale, all under real pressure, all at once. That season burned one truth into me I've never let go of: strong systems and courageous leadership are inseparable. You don't get one without the other, period.
From there, my strength in facilitation and culture-setting set me apart fast. I beat out hundreds to make Disney's elite "Traditions" Corporate Training Team, and I became Walt Disney World's first-ever Gulf South Regional Recruiter for the Disney College Program. I earned both my B.A. in Business Management and my M.A. in Organizational Management while working full-time, the exact discipline I now expect from the leaders I coach. And in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina, following my own helicopter rooftop rescue and the loss of my grandfather, I led my multi-state recruiting team straight through the chaos. I chose resolve over retreat. That's not a résumé line to me. That's where I learned what leadership actually costs, and what it's for.
13+ years as a C-suite coach and executive peer-group facilitator, founder of an award-winning executive coaching firm serving leaders across the private sector, government, labor unions, and Fortune 500 companies.
Former Walt Disney World Transportation Operations Manager, led frontline teams through the operational aftermath of 9/11.
Disney "Traditions" Corporate Training Team, selected from hundreds; later the first-ever Gulf South Regional Recruiter for the Disney College Program.
B.A. Business Management · M.A. Organizational Management, earned while working full-time.
Sought-after national speaker and TV, radio, and podcast guest; elected to the International Executive Association.
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★★★★★ Exit Momentum holds a 4.97 average across 189 Google reviews, one of the strongest review profiles in the category. (Attributed to the firm, never to an individual coach.)
You book a call with Julie, and you get honest, fast, about whether the fit is right. If it isn't, Julie will say so.
A focused session, just you and Julie, digging into your Direction, Design, and Dynamic. You can't see how big the mountain is while you're climbing it.
Your leadership team in the room. Momentum is a team sport. You walk out with a clear, honest picture of exactly what to fix first.
A steady rhythm: clarity of direction, systems and cadence, and the leadership development that sharpens you and your team.
The owners Julie works with are usually doing the work only they can do, because the business still runs straight through them. That's the real ceiling, and it does not break by working harder.
(225) 351-7878A straight, no-pressure conversation about where your business is and whether Julie is the right coach for the job.
