With over 30 years of presentation, communication and performing experience working with organizations as diverse as KitchenAid, Toyota, Kraft, Walmart, Bravo, YouTube, RSA Security, CBC and TVOntario, Julie helps her clients frame their ideas and present them powerfully. She has advised and coached school board members, city councilors, county commissioners, state representatives and mayors. Julie loves the democratic election process and is deeply dedicated to those who choose to run for something.

Best known for her shows on Food Network Canada (Summer’s Best), CBC (Surprise! It’s Edible Incredible!), TSN (SWEAT) and TVOKids, Julie has clocked thousands of hours of live TV and has hosted shows about food, sports, and science. She’s worked with tech innovators, chefs, astronauts, artists, politicians, Olympic athletes, and gurus. She writes and records voiceovers for clients in her home studio.

Julie was raised in Denver, CO, where the mountains are beautiful, and Hershey, PA, where the air smells like chocolate. After studying film at McGill University she immigrated to Canada and spent many years working in the television industry in Toronto and Montreal. She then returned to the US to complete an MA in Television & Radio at San Francisco State University, where she instructed writing for media and media aesthetics.

Julie writes books for kids, has teenage twins, always eats dessert, and likes to run, bike, swim.