Keynote · Strategist · Mentor · Founder
Julie Fedele
The career ladder is collapsing. Julie shows organisations, and the people inside them, what comes next.
The career ladder is collapsing. Julie shows organisations, and the people inside them, what comes next.
Julie Fedele doesn't speak from theory. She left a C-suite career in London at the height of her success, not because something went wrong, but because something was missing. That pivot became her life's work.
A former C-suite leader and venture builder with an MBA and nearly two decades across senior corporate and startup roles, Julie now helps organisations redesign how work gets done, and helps the people inside them build careers they actually own. Her talks pair hard-won narrative with frameworks an audience can act on the same day.
Underneath the frameworks sits her own method, Energetic Capital: how you're wired to work, treated as an asset you invest rather than burn.
Work was a ladder for a century. Now it's a studio.
For a century, work was a ladder. One company, one direction, one rung at a time. That structure is being dismantled in real time: the middle is being flattened, teams are now a mix of employees, fractional specialists and AI agents, and the people who used to climb are building something else instead.
Julie's frame for what replaces it is the Hollywood Model: work as a studio, not a ladder. People operate as talent. They build a body of work, move between productions, and own their narrative and income mix. It's the argument of her forthcoming book, Off Script, and the lens she brings to every stage.
Your workforce is now a mix of full-time employees, fractional specialists, contractors and AI agents, and there's no framework holding it together. The middle of the org chart is thinning. And your sharpest people are already building their exit on the side.
Julie helps leaders make sense of the talent era and design a system of work for it, so they can integrate a mixed workforce, lead through the flattening, and keep the people who matter.
You're curating a stage, a summit or a community for professionals living through the biggest shift in how we work. They don't need more hustle advice. They need someone who has made the leap herself and can hand them a map.
Julie gives mid-to-senior audiences, especially women, a talk that pairs lived experience with frameworks they can act on the same day.
Former C-suite leader and venture builder across Australian and European startups in HealthTech, ClimateTech and Media.
MBA, and nearly two decades of senior corporate and startup experience.
Founder of Polywork, a career redesign platform pairing business strategy with Energetic Capital.
Co-host of the Challenge the Work podcast.
rawmaterials, her weekly newsletter, with a community of 7,000+ tracking the same shift.
First book, Off Script, due 2027.
Tell me about your event and what you're after. I'll come back to you with availability, fit and fees.