♦ Career Coach, Research Psychologist ♦
♦ the workplace whisperer ♦
Julia Locklear PhD, MA, ACC
Services
What I Offer
speaking
Julia is a natural story teller with an engaging and accessible style that often mixes infectious humor and self-reflection in a way that often challenges her audiences’ perspectives and may even completely shift their thinking about who they are and what they can achieve.
Coaching
Known as The Workplace Whisperer, Julia is adept at cutting through the noise of challenging work environments to find the root cause and determine whether the culture is the culprit or something else. She will partner with you to develop unique coping strategies and tactics, empowering her clients reclaim their power and manage the situation from a place of self-confidence and self-care.
research
- Focus Group Moderator/Interviewer
- Customer/Employee Experience Measurement Ecosystem Development
- Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods
- Ethnography and Event History Calendar
consulting
- ICF Certified Coach
- Organizational Structure and Design
- Performance Management and Job Analysis
- Talent Assessment and Alignment
- Racial Equity Assessment
- Change Management
- Training Curriculum Development and Delivery
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Julia Locklear PhD, MA, ACC
Julia Locklear is a California-based career coach and research psychologist with a focus on organizational culture and the challenges Black women face in positions of leadership in the private sector, due to their intersectional identity. She has taught graduate-level courses in quantitative and qualitative methods, an organizational culture and employee surveys. She has recently begun giving talks and joining podcasts to discuss the customer experience in Black and White along with the need that brands stop ignoring our enormous spending power and works to share money habits with Black professionals to help them take control of their finances instead of the other way around.
Julia Locklear is a California-based career coach and research psychologist with a focus on organizational culture and the challenges Black women face in positions of leadership in the private sector, due to their intersectional identity. She has taught graduate-level courses in quantitative and qualitative methods, an organizational culture and employee surveys. She has recently begun giving talks and joining podcasts to discuss the customer experience in Black and White along with the need that brands stop ignoring our enormous spending power and works to share money habits with Black professionals to help them take control of their finances instead of the other way around.
Publications
The Workplace Whisperer
Office advice for women of color who know that leaning in doesn’t always work Hi, ZORA readers. In future columns, I will be answering your questions about confronting the different “-isms” at work. But for today’s column, I’m going to first talk about why we are...
Foreward for: Beavers, Foxes and Grizzly Bears
This is a book about organizational leadership; specifically, how to support employees' needs and achieve a good fit in the workplace. The book contains expert opinion to support ideas related to leadership. It also uses a 9 year-old boy's imagination of what work...
Let’s Talk About Checks, Baby: Reducing the Racial Wage Gap
Office advice for women of color who know that leaning in doesn’t always work recent years, a significant amount of study has been dedicated to addressing the gender wage gap. Organizations such as the National Partnership for Women and Families frequently report on...
Navigating Your Mandatory Black History Month Office Lunch
The Workplace Whisperer tackles corporate ‘diversity’ efforts for MLK Day and BHM The Workplace Whisperer answers anonymous work-related questions submitted by readers. If you have a question for the Workplace Whisperer, email zora@medium.com, and no...
Keeping your job and sanity in the time of covid-19
The key to working through the pandemic is in maintaining work boundaries “Local candidates only.” “We don’t allow remote work.” “You need to be in the office to foster collaboration on your team.” Three months ago, companies were at liberty to enforce the conditions...
