Recognition & Impact
When you do the work to make HOW matter, others notice. Here’s the recognition we’ve earned for helping leaders transform how they lead together.
Individual leadership awards
Recognition for expertise in leadership alignment and organizational transformation.
Julie Williamson
STEVIE AWARDS SILVER AWARD
Female Executive of the Year in Business Services
Recognized for building a high-performance firm that centers leadership alignment as the driver of organizational results.
Kate Zappitelli
Stevie Awards Silver Award
Chair, Alignment Institute
Recognized for leading the research that keeps Karrikins at the forefront of leadership alignment science.
Julie Williamson
Fulbright Specialist
Supporting Global Leadership Challenges
Recognized as a global expert in leadership development and organizational transformation.
Organizational Recognition
We practice what we teach. These recognitions reflect the culture and performance of the Karrikins Group team.
Inc. 2025 Power Partner Awards
2025 & 2024
Named a Power Partner by Inc. Magazine for delivering measurable value to the growth-stage businesses we serve.
Great Place to Work Certified
2023 – Current
100% of our employees say Karrikins is a great place to work, compared to 57% at a typical U.S. company.
Stevie Awards for Great Employers
2016
Named a finalist across three categories in 2016.
Stevie Awards Gold Winner
2015
Fastest Growing Company of the Year in 2015.
Shaping the conversation
Leading the dialogue on leadership alignment and organizational transformation.
Published works
Bestselling Book
Make HOW Matter
Julie Williamson
Most organizational failures are not strategy failures. They are HOW failures. This book gives leaders the practical framework to close that gap from the inside out.
Co-Authored
Matter: Move Beyond the Competition, Create More Value and Become the Obvious Choice
Peter Sheahan & Julie Williamson
A framework for becoming the obvious choice by finding and owning the place where you solve the problems that matter most to your customers, employees, and communities.
Regular contributions
Forbes Business Council
Contributor
The Karrikins lens on leadership alignment and the failure gap, brought to a network of senior executives doing the work to make HOW matter.
CEO Magazine
Contributor
Addressing the leadership alignment challenges that keep executives up at night and the HOW-first approach that closes them.
The Failure Gap Podcast
Podcast Host
Candid conversations with leaders exploring why alignment is so hard and what it takes to close the gap between intention and impact.
Featured in
Keynote Speaking
Equal parts business strategist and social scientist, Julie brings more than 30 years of executive experience, research-driven insight, and practical tools that leaders can use immediately. She makes the invisible drivers of leadership performance visible, helping teams move out of stalled patterns and into aligned, high-impact action.
Her sessions are built on a single premise: strategy only succeeds when leaders are aligned on how they lead together. Audiences leave with a new way of seeing their organizations and the tools to act on it the same day.