Speaking
Julia speaks on leadership, clarity, and working in the AI era, drawing on three decades of executive experience at Microsoft and Procter & Gamble. Her book, The Clarity Quotient, publishes early 2027 with Fast Company Press.
Video samples
Microsoft — 2025 Audit Innovator Trailblazer Award
Protiviti and the Institute of Internal Auditors recognized Julia's team at Microsoft for sustained, multi-year innovation at the enterprise level.
ALA Outstanding Mother of the Year — Keynote Address
Julia was honored by the American Lung Association as Outstanding Mother of the Year in May 2025 and delivered the keynote acceptance address.
Speaking topics
The Clarity Quotient: the discipline AI-era leaders need
The craft of clear thinking, courageous inquiry, and making clarity land through teams when speed and complexity outpace traditional leadership playbooks. Operator-grade, research-anchored, built from thirty years of leading global teams through transformation.
Reimagining functions for the AI era: the Trailblazer story
How the Microsoft Risk and Audit function rebuilt itself around AI capability rather than bolting AI onto the existing model, earning the 2025 Protiviti / Institute of Internal Auditors Audit Innovator Trailblazer Award. What changed, what did not, and what transfers to any function facing AI-era transformation.
Competency-based hiring and the new career ladder
The collapse of credential-based hiring, what is forming in its place, and what "starter jobs" look like in the AI-era economy. Essential context for leaders hiring early-career talent and parents of young professionals navigating a job market that does not look like the one they started in.
Recent speaking
- Stanford Director College — June 2026
- Google — executive leadership audience
- Walmart Global Audit — all-hands keynote
- KPMG Global Leader — fireside chat
- Microsoft CIO Summit
- Microsoft Partner Training College
- Microsoft One Experience Center — regular executive briefings for Fortune 500 customer leadership
- ALA Outstanding Mother of the Year — keynote acceptance address (May 2025)
- Numerous additional internal Microsoft executive and team events
Recognition
- 2025 Protiviti / Institute of Internal Auditors Audit Innovator Trailblazer Award — team leader, Microsoft Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance
- American Lung Association Outstanding Mother of the Year — May 2025 honoree
Book your event
For speaking inquiries:
Email: julia@juliadenman.com
Julia is represented for paid speaking engagements through her publishing LLC and is actively accepting bookings for 2026 and 2027.