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Julie Kratz

Speaker / Trainer / Author

Julie Kratz is a highly-acclaimed TEDx speaker and inclusive leadership trainer who led teams and produced results in corporate America. After experiencing many career “pivot points” of her own, she started her own speaking business with the goal of helping leaders be more inclusive.

Promoting diversity, inclusion, and allyship in the workplace, Julie helps organizations foster more inclusive environments. She is a frequent keynote speaker, podcast host, and executive coach. She holds an MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, is a Certified Master Coach, and is a certified unconscious bias trainer.

Her books include Pivot Point: How to Build a Winning Career Game Plan, ONE: How Male Allies Support Women for Gender Equality and Lead Like an Ally: A Journey Through Corporate America with Strategies to Facilitate Inclusion, her children’s book Little Allies, and Allyship in Action: 10 Strategies for Living Inclusively.

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Ericka Young

 Equity Educator / Author / Coach

Ericka is a best-selling author, speaker, and coach. She founded Tailor-Made Budgets a financial coaching and speaking firm in 2005 after she and her husband Chris climbed out of nearly $100,000 in debt. Ericka enjoys helping people create a solid path to financial freedom. While her daughters entered their teen years, Ericka began to realize the need for effective equity training, diverse perspectives, and inclusive environments both inside and outside her home. This journey led to her speaking on not just finances but also diversity, equity, and inclusion in workplaces and in the community where she lives.

At Next Pivot Point, Ericka facilitates training on racial equity, intersectionality, recognizing privilege, and unpacking racism. She is busy working to create a world where everyone is welcome in all spaces, and they have the financial resources to participate fully in those spaces. 

Ericka is the author of NAKED AND UNASHAMED: 10 Money Conversations Every Couple Must Have, an Amazon #1 best-selling book. Learn more about Ericka here.

 

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Testimonials

“Bravo to Julie Kratz for taking a complex issue and providing practical steps for all of us to be better allies!  Diversity is necessary, but inclusion is critical…so we need more inclusive leaders and allies at all levels in order to progress. This guide will help anyone interested in making a positive difference in the workplace and for society at large.”

Bonnie Fetch, Executive, Cummins, Inc.

“By teaming up with Julie Kratz and team, we’re creating a formalized allyship training and certification program, NFP Unite, to enable our employees to study and better understand the challenges of their peers so we may all stand up for one another’s rights, using all the various privileges we each have to support, uplift, and celebrate those around us and give each other a voice.”

Kim Davis – Executive Vice President, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer,  NFP

“Julie helped create a common language and comfort around beginning these conversations about inclusion, and that equipped our team to head down a path of even deeper development.”

Executive, ZP Group