Break Free from Career Autopilot and Unlock Your Truest Potential

I’m Julia Korn, a Business Insider Most Innovative Career Coach, a Contributor to Forbes, and a TEDx speaker.

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 Picture this: you wake up energized for the day ahead, earning what you deserve, and doing work that plays to your strengths. This isn’t a dream — it’s the reality I help my clients create, time and time again.

 

The Career Trap Most People Don't Escape

Let's be real: You're successful on paper, but something feels off. You've checked all the boxes – prestigious degree, impressive job title, steady paycheck – yet you find yourself:

  • Dreading Monday mornings

  • Feeling a gnawing sense that you're meant for something more

  • Going through the motions, but not truly living

  • Wondering, "Is this really all there is?"

  • Feeling like you’re on autopilot, and not in a good way

I know because I've been exactly where you are.

After a career in corporate finance, an MBA from Duke, and then a career pivot into social impact, I was the poster child for “should.” I had a resume that looked perfect. But inside? I was exhausted, disconnected, and desperately unhappy. Also, my husband was really tired of hearing me complain at dinner every night 🤣.

The truth? I was living someone else's definition of success.

I intimately understand the pain that comes with unrest and stagnation in your career.

Let me help you get unstuck. I’ve done it for thousands of clients, and I want to do it for you, too.

 

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🥰What Our Clients Are Saying🥰

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“As a new leader in a large organization, I felt overwhelmed by self-pressure to hyper-perform. Julia helped me tackle the skills I needed to manage my goals and tweak my expectations of how to achieve them. My vision is now clear, and I have confidence in my new approach to success! I would highly recommend 1:1 coaching with Julia to anyone interested in being the best version of themselves.”

 

“As an early career professional, I was having a really hard time navigating my current role and understanding why I wasn't feeling invested in my work. Julia helped me dig deeper and uncover what the core values were that shaped the work I do. She helped me develop a personal narrative that expressed those values to others and is something I still use today. I am now investing my time in people and activities that align with where I want to go and what I want to do, and Julia helped put me on this path.”

 

“There's a reason Julia is an award-winning coach. She's incredible at what she does. After working with her, I feel more connected to my work than I have in a long time, and I'm confident about my plan going forward. I'm sure her process adapts to each client, but I can speak to what she's done for me - she's been a sounding board, an inspiration, an instructor, and an accountability partner. I'm grateful that I invested time and resources into this program, and I'm seeing the immediate payoff.”

 

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Client Highlights

Cisco

Marriott

Lenovo

Women Business Owner’s Network

Morrisville Chamber of Commerce

Docs for Tots

The Frontier

WALTER Magazine

St. David’s School

North American Women in Construction

CHIEF

RedHat

UNC Chapel Hill

 

Cornell University

Remote Work Summit

Administrative Professionals Conference

EA Ignite

American Underground

Ellevate

Connect-ED

Acton Children’s Business Fair

Union Member House

WellFest

lululemon

JP Morgan

Town of Garner, NC

 

WINnovation

Cary Magazine

Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business

Startup Summit

Duke University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative

Women of Western Wake County

Training Industry

Social Impact Yoda

Raleigh Metro SHRM

Carolinas AGC

PowertoFly

North Carolina State University

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