In this episode of Women Governance Trailblazers, Dr. Julie Williamson, CEO of Karrikins Group and author of Make HOW Matter, shares why alignment is the critical (and often missing) ingredient for...

Julie Williamson, PhD, shares why true leadership alignment goes beyond agreement and reveals actionable strategies to get your team moving forward together.

Join Julie Williamson, PhD, as she is featured as a 2024 Women in Leadership Publication about why misaligned leaders are killing transformation for you and your team.

Join Julie Williamson, PhD, as she delves into the complexities of C-suite leadership. This insightful interview from a Medium article by Doug Noll, offers practical advice and real-world...

Here are five things, our very own Julie Williamson, PhD, believes every C-Suite executive needs to know to be highly effective.

It is so easy for leadership teams to get stuck in routine decision making and stop thinking through the defaults that are driving your results. Here are three things to try this week.

What is Servant Leadership? Written by: Julie Williamson, PhD Servant leaders invest in understanding and connecting with the strengths and challenges their colleagues have and working with them to...

You can’t lead a successful organizational transformation from the sidelines—you have to be in the mix, changing yourself while you encourage others to change.

Early in my career, I was responsible for a 225-person, 24/7 medical contact center for one of the largest integrated payor/provider health systems in the United States.

We’ve all seen the grim statistics – major organizational transformations often fail to return as expected to the business.

At Karrikins Group, we often talk to ‘lonely leaders’ – those who are lonely in their roles. They feel isolated from authentic connection with their direct reports, removed from their...

September is a common time for companies to work on strategy, making it the perfect opportunity to reconsider how strategy is developed, communicated, and brought to life across your...

Setting and executing on an ambitious strategy that drives transformation is crucial in today’s business environment. Your strategy must be bold enough to shake apart deeply held beliefs,...

Too many leaders today treat change as something other people need to do. But senior leaders can’t leave it up to their teams to transform while they are busy doing more important things.

We’ve all seen the stats on transformation failures, the lists of why they don’t work and the colossal case studies of Kodak, Blockbuster and others that…

Reframe the purpose of strategy work – lead through your strategy and immediately start to use it as the lens through which you make leadership decisions.

The KARRIKINS Challenge Curve™ shows the common stages of leading through challenge or a crisis in an organization. The energy leaders bring into showing up together during challenging situations...

Executives are charged with meeting a dizzying array of expectations, including delivering on quarterly financials, investing in long-term growth and providing reassurance to jittery customers and...

The KARRIKINS IO Dispositions Model™ explores how leaders show up. Take a brief self-scan to discover what your disposition might be and the impact it may have on your organization.

Choose to create or intentionally show up to a Purposeful Conversation. Karrikins Group shares 5 ways to create the conditions for Purposeful Conversations.

The crash was not awesome. It hurt, my gear was totaled, and I had to hike off the mountain – the ultimate walk of shame for a snowboarder. I was lucky to be able to get myself down given the...

Strategy is a vital and integral part of senior leadership. Approaching strategy as an annual chore is a legacy way of thinking about the whole idea of what a strategy is and how it helps a business...

For years we have bought into the notion that a burning platform is required to provoke change in organizations. This theory is based on a belief that people choose comfort over risk and respond to...

Leaders can’t stop at agreement. Four common tradeoffs that hold leaders back from aligning.