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Speaking & Workshops
I am an expert on strategy, organizational growth, team leadership, and career success. Delight your colleagues with life-changing insights and strategies to unleash growth
I work with clients to create the most worthwhile and engaging sessions their audiences have ever attended. Plus, I'm the most accessible and low-maintenance event partner you'll find.
Host an event your attendees will rave about for days!
20+
Years of Executive Coaching
& Leadership Experience
A Great Speaker is Key to a Great Event
See Julian in Action
APRIL 28 · 45 MIN 49 SEC
S7E13: What Do You Really Want? (And How to Actually Get There) with Julian Lighton
Business Impact Lab (BIL) Podcast
The Julian Experience
Discover the Formula for Learning and High Performance
No organization grows faster than its leaders. Preparing leaders to navigate complexities and lead effectively is my focus. I work with C-level executives and Boards who want to grow and develop themselves and their businesses, and to tackle bigger, more complex challenges.
An expert on strategy, team leadership and career success, Julian has been a featured keynote speaker for many organizations, including many global brand names such as those shown below.
Trusted By World-Class Organizations
A Great Speaker is Key to a Great Event
Seven Reasons to Book Julian
as Your Next Speaker
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Customized
Julian starts by understanding your context and audience goals. Then he designs a meaningful and impactful experience, using your setting and guiding language to produce the desired outcomes.
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Learner Centered
Participants go through an experience rooted in the science of how people engage, learn, and change.
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Research Based
Julian’s sessions are based on what science has shown to be effective, dynamic and engaging, rather than on platitudes.
04
Story Powered
Julian uses real world stories, experiences and examples to inspire and paint vivid pictures of principles and strategies to promote clarity, recall, and alignment.
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Interactive And Engaging
Julian designs around interaction, Q&A and peer discussions which is how people generate real insights, learn, and change.
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Pragmatic, Practical, Actionable
Julian shares practical, actionable strategies, tools, and examples from high performers that people can start implementing the next day.
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Transformative
Participants leave Julian’s sessions with new lenses through which they see, which shifts their approaches to work and life.
Host an event your attendees will rave about for days!
Industry Praise for Navigating Your Next
Seriously insightful. Julian Lighton has written the best book on understanding careers and navigating them I have ever read.
Sylvie Chanel
Presidente Directrice Generale – CEO, Le Revenu, France
Navigating Your Next is an extraordinary book for extraordinary times. Julian Lighton has created a new ‘What Color is Your Parachute’. Clear, insightful, pragmatic and full of practical examples, stories and lessons. I wish I had had this in my thirties.
Andy Elder
Chief Revenue Officer, Autodesk
Like a Taylor Swift album, “Navigating Your Next” unfolds in a series of familiar moments leading you to realizations about yourself and your career, providing clarity about what you want and motivation to get it. A work of real craft and insight.
Nick Mehta
President and CEO, Gainsight; Board Director F5 and Pubmatic (NASDAQ)
In a world obsessed with speed and achievement, Navigating Your Next reminds us that real success begins with self-awareness. Julian Lighton weaves together insight, strategy, and humanity to help people move from confusion to clarity—and from career success to personal fulfillment.
Debi Hemmeter
Co-Founder of LEAN IN, and President of the Inner Mountain Foundation
An encyclopedic, insightful and powerful view of pursuing success in your career. Bravo! A must for anyone trying to figure out what to do next.
Stephen Jones
Chairman and Non-Executive Director, Panmure Liberum, and Finsolutia (Former CEO UK Finance)
Signature Keynote Topics
ON CAREER AND PERSONAL SUCCESS:
ON LEADERSHIP
ON STRATEGY
Love my approach, but want a different topic or format? I routinely design custom events to meet the needs of my clients. Whatever your challenge, I can create a dynamic session to address it.
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