We expect our leaders today to be thought leaders. Ready to respond and lead, from the stage, in a board room, in a crisis.

For startup founders, it’s now a non-negotiable that you’ll have to market yourself to gain investment and clients:

To share your expertise and POV in writing and speaking.

Skills, experience count for less without being able to continuously speak to the issues of the day.

Being quiet means being forgotten.

My mission is to help leaders become thought leaders, and to drag the genius from your brain, because it’s time to learn to market yourself.

My work:

→ Thought Leadership Community: Join our supportive community of leaders learning the tactics of thought leadership. DIYInfluence.com

→ Thought Leadership and Founder Marketing: One-to-one accelerated guidance for founders and executives: partnership on storytelling, and speaking directly talk to your audience. Speaking prep, video podcast, LinkedIn posts, articles, book collaboration, ghostwriting. (Skip the marketing and PR and start here!)

→ For Business: Thought Leadership Training and Program Development: Build, structure your organization’s thought leadership and storytelling. Deploy across your executive, marketing, partnerships, and revenue teams; and toward achieving your bottom line and impact objectives.

As someone who had a massive fear of public speaking for most of my life, I know this challenging, rewarding journey well of being willing to be seen, heard, and taking my place in thought leadership.

Thanks for reading!

Event Bio:

With 20 years of communications and thought leadership experience, Julie Michelle Morris helps leaders become thought leaders, and drags the genius out so they serve at scale. She partners with organizations and their leaders across cybersecurity, philanthropy, social good, policy, for profit including Center for Internet Security, World Economic Forum, Asset Funders Network, UC San Diego, along with founders, authors, speakers, and consultants from across the globe. Julie speaks on developing your visibility toward service at scale, monetizing your expertise, and the how-to of thought leadership. She hosts high-profile conversations on her podcast, 'How To: Thought Leadership'. Based in Dallas, Texas, Julie graduated from California State University of Long Beach with a Bachelors in Economics and studied Accounting at the University of California, San Diego, and is mom to two amazing daughters and wife to a financial analyst turned YouTube woodworker.