“Julia Cuba Lewis has an exceptional talent for active listening, quickly pinpointing the root causes of complex issues. Her insightful guidance has empowered me to move forward with clarity and confidence.”

- Heather Bendes, Owner, Bendes Consult

“I always feel stronger after talking to Julia.”

- Kelly Fulbright, Job Seeker

“Julia uses her genuine curiosity to motivate others. She helps people use what they already have - their past experiences and their depth of knowledge to help guide them in critical and challenging decision-making. Julia helped me to become a more confident and secure leader who understands the importance of diverse perspectives, showing empathy, and using their influence to help create critical change.”

- Adreayn Torrez, Program Manager, Girls Empowerment Network

Julia is a personable and direct coach who is able to quickly uncover the most important priorities and challenges. It’s easy to open up with Julia because she listens deeply and has ample experience working in all levels of an organization. She uses metaphors, humor and her expertise to ignite leaders and move them toward creative solutions.

- Chloé LaPorte, Senior Program Director,
Girls Empowerment Network

“I hired Julia to conduct a deep dive into my organization and she delivered a thorough and exciting map which guided our new mission, vision, values and culture. In addition to her magnetic personality and leadership skills, Julia possesses a wealth of knowledge and expertise in business. To know Julia is to love her and to work with her is the ideal collaboration.”

- Dr. Kay Creath, Co-Founder, Integrate Recovery

“Julia is that rare professional who brings a balance of business acumen and critical insight into human behavior and organizational dynamics to her work. Having seen Julia in action as both a long-serving CEO and a consultant, I have deep respect for her ability to help organizations of all types discover their purpose, set goals against that purpose, and discover what it takes to achieve those goals. Julia has an engineer’s command of systems-level detail, a futurist’s eyes for strategic vision, and an academic’s embrace of data, but it is her social worker’s grounding in compassion and curiosity that anchors her work and motivates me to offer my highest recommendation. I can’t wait to find a project to work on with Julia again.”

- Michael Kellerman, Nonprofit Change Management Executive

“Julia Cuba Lewis is a remarkably perceptive individual who has the skills and experience to determine why some organizations function well and others do not, particularly at the level of senior management. The breadth and depth of her experience with not-for-profit and for-profit organizations can readily provide key insights into the source of problems and how one might best address them.

For more than sixty years, I have actively studied how colleges and universities function, or not, and I’ve worked closely with hundreds of faculty, administrators, students, corporations, and funders. Based on this experience, I very much appreciate how well she listens and the speed with which she can absorb data, build upon what she observes, and synthesize models for both problems and their solutions. She is technically excellent and a wonderful source of knowledge and inspiration.

I have benefited greatly from Julia’s guidance about how to identify effective ways to tie an organization’s values to its mission. She has helped me identify trust, respect, empathy, and transparency as values that should be key to the efficient and congenial operation of the academic and commercial organizations with which I am involved. She is guiding me in an in-depth analysis of a large undergraduate research experience that I direct and which appears to be functioning well. She points out that analyzing a program when it is functioning well can be a very useful exercise that could make it better, and, more important, strengthen the program’s foundations should any adverse events arise in the future. She has provided me with tools that have helped me identify problems elsewhere, and I very much look forward to introducing Julia to anyone who wants to learn how the process of defining vision, values, and mission leads to organizational self-reflection and improvement. Julia Cuba Lewis is a highly effective leadership coach.”

- John P. Wikswo, Ph.D.
University Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, and Physics; A.B. Learned Professor of Living State Physics; Founding Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education; Chief Technology Officer, Regemus Technologies, LLC