About the Author

Julie Winkle Giulioni has spent the past 25 years improving performance through learning. She's partnered with hundreds of organizations to develop and deploy innovative training products that are used worldwide. Julie is well known and well regarded for her creative, one-of-a-kind solutions that consistently deliver bottom-line results.

As co-founder and principal of DesignArounds, Julie leads multi-disciplinary teams that create award-winning electronic and instructor-led training. She is an author and respected speaker on a variety of topics, including performance improvement, leadership, sales, and customer service.

Her book with co-author Beverly Kaye is Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want. It takes a fresh - but realistic - view of career development: its value given in today's workplace, what gets in the way and what busy managers can do to make it happen.