Dr. Julie Colwell ignites your team’s essence with simple, research-based tools that shift people from reactivity to creativity

Watching her speak, you feel transformation happen in real time. It’s in the room, but also it’s happening in yourself. 

At the center of her work is a genuinely original theory: naming the power dynamics running underneath a conflict. These dynamics are ones most people can feel but never learned to see. It’s a different lens on conflict itself, and once you can name what’s actually happening, you’re no longer stuck inside it. You can move through it, back to real, peer-to-peer connection. That’s the space where the best collaboration, the best relationships, and the best creative work actually get made.

Julie has spent years building this theory. Grounded in psychological research and her own embodied practice the tools she offers are simple enough to use immediately: in a keynote, in a conflict, in a hard meeting. Her talks don’t just land in the moment; people walk away with concrete tools they can use the next time things get tense.

People leave more connected to themselves and to each other. For teams, that means less conflict, more presence, and room for people to actually think creatively instead of just managing each other.

Hire Julie to Speak

Julie isn’t just a speaker; she’s a teacher, and a rare one. Conflict is something most of us treat as invisible, unconscious, just “how people are.” Julie has spent years doing something genuinely new: making it tangible. Nameable. Something you can actually work with (and beyond) instead of just endure.

That’s the real breakthrough. She offers a fresh way of seeing it at all instead of yet another framework for managing conflict better.

In the room she’s magnetic, sharp, dynamic, and unusually good at making complex ideas click fast. People don’t just nod along — they leave with something they can use the next time it matters.


Keynote topics:
Conflict is Unnecessary · From Power Over/Under to Power With · A World Beyond Blame · Power Struggles: The Hidden Puppeteer