Julia Denman

Chief Risk and Audit Officer at Microsoft. Director, The Clorox Company. Author of The Clarity Quotient.

About

Julia Denman has spent more than three decades leading through complexity inside two Fortune 25 companies. She is Chief Risk and Audit Officer at Microsoft, leading a global team across internal audit, enterprise risk, controls, and business conduct investigations, reporting to the Audit Committee and the Microsoft CFO.

Previously at Microsoft, she served as CFO of Global Marketing and Consumer Business, overseeing roughly fifty billion dollars in sales across Windows, Surface, Office, and Bing Advertising, and as CFO of the Microsoft Devices Group, where she led the financial integration of the Nokia acquisition. Before Microsoft, she spent twenty-one years at Procter & Gamble in finance leadership roles including VP and Assistant Treasurer, CFO of P&G France, CFO of North America Family Care, and Senior Director of Corporate Acquisitions and Divestitures — a career that spanned Cincinnati, Paris, Geneva, Brussels, Istanbul, and London.

She has served on The Clorox Company's Board of Directors, on the Audit Committee, since 2022. She holds BA and MA degrees in Economics from Cambridge University and is a Chartered Management Accountant. She is a dual US and UK citizen and lives in Fall City, Washington.

The Book

The Clarity Quotient

The leadership discipline for the AI era

Julia's first book distills more than thirty years of practitioner experience into three disciplines leaders can build into habit: Clarity of Thinking, Clarity of Inquiry, and Clarity that Lands.

Publishing early 2027.

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Speaking

Julia speaks on leadership, clarity, and working in the AI era, drawing on three decades of executive experience at Microsoft and Procter & Gamble. Recent and upcoming engagements include the Stanford Director College, Google, Walmart Global Audit, KPMG Global Leader, and the Microsoft CIO Summit.

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Essays

Short pieces on leadership, clarity, and working in the AI era. The thirty-second test. The memo problem. False positive alignment. What it takes for clarity to reach the people who have to act on it.

Seven essays are live at clarityquotient.org. New essays publish regularly in the runup to The Clarity Quotient's early 2027 launch.

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