Julia Banks is a leadership consultant and bestselling author, and an experienced executive corporate & board director, general counsel and non-executive director. Her current work is broadranging, including speaking panel work, facilitator, MC, and opinion writer.
Julia’s expertise is in leadership, power dynamics – personal power vs. positional power, safe, healthy, and respectful workplace cultures, diversity and inclusion, reputational management and governance.
Julia’s bestselling book ‘PowerPlay, breaking through bias barriers and boys’ clubs’ , part memoir and resource guide, was nominated in the 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards, and she has another book in the pipeline.
Speaking
An established thought leader on leadership, safe, respectful & inclusive workplace, cultures and governance – Julia Banks is a sought-after keynote speaker. Julia’s broad experience has harnessed her deep understanding and ability to tailor her consulting work, keynote speeches and panel discussions across workplace sectors – ranging from the law, manufacturing, professional and finance services, construction, consumer marketing and retail, sport, academia, mining, public sector organisations and local, state and federal levels of government.
Julia is experienced in speaking to a range of audiences and groups from different industries such as CEO, C-suite, executive groups and senior and middle management teams- at company conferences and in a range of event contexts and formats. Please get in contact directly to enquire about booking Julia for your next event.
Recent events
Women in Finance Summit
Julia Banks was the perfect speaker at the Women in Finance 2024 Summit, leaving us all truly inspired. Her energy combined with her expertise was nothing short of magnetic… she brings a wealth of experience to the table and powerful insights regarding building personal power which resonated deeply with everyone
– Managing Editor, Momentum Media
Lawyers Weekly Inaugural Partner Summit
It was thrilling to have an emcee and panel moderator of Julia’s calibre at our event – her stage presence, anecdotes, and insightful interaction with event speakers took the quality of multiple sessions to the next level. We’re very pleased to have been able to work with Julia!
– Jerome Doraisamy, Editor Lawyers Weekly
Julia did amazing work …a natural who made us all feel very comfortable and enabled the conversation to flow so well. Little wonder why we got such great feedback after the session.
– Miki Simonovski, Founder and Director, Fee Synergy
Mentor List Advisory Board
Julia has been appointed as a member of the Mentor List Advisory board – offering a range of services including individual one-on-one and group mentoring and workshops
Watch: Victorian Local Governance Association
At their Fast Track leadership forum discussing the need for civility plus robust debate in leadership
AGL
Event at AGL’s Melbourne Headquarters, 2024
We thoroughly enjoyed the session and you sharing your wisdom with us
Fleet Partners
National Event broadcast from Melbourne Headquarters, 2024
Thank you for sharing your story with the Fleet Partners Team and what an inspirational story it is
– Damien Berrell, CEO and Managing Director, Fleet Partners
Government and Social Research Conference
Canberra, March 2024
[Julia’s speech].. really set the tone for an extremely successful and informative day
– Angus Hunter CEO at The Research Society
Sorrento Writers Festival
In Conversation with Grace Tame and Panel discussions regarding workplace culture and leadership with various people such as Bernard Salt, Mim Barlett and Kate Jenkins. 2024
Mentor List Masterclass Guest Mentor
CEO/CxO roundtables with Mike Smith, Adrian Critchlow, and Jamie Pride, 2024.
Mentor List Mastermind
Being a guest mentor in over twenty sessions in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane with CEOs and CXOs in the Masterclass/ Mentor List program meant Julia’s insights and advice has reached executives from across public & private sectors including health, academia, professional services, manufacturing , banking, legal, finance and insurance, property to name a few.
We were delighted to have Julia Banks as keynote speaker …an inspiring and insightful talk, …clearly resonating with the audience. We highly recommend Julia as a speaker for future events.
– Emma McCaughey, NAWIC QLD President.
Exciting , entertaining and insightful – helped make our event a resounding success
– Organisers, NAWIC – National Institute of Women In Construction, December 2023
Julia brought her customary candour and astute insight to our panel at the 2023 Women in Leadership Dinner, Melbourne Business School. Her contribution had a resounding impact on the audience.
– Caron Beaton-Wells, Dean, Internal, Melbourne Business School
…it was such a thought provoking and inspiring discussion
– Jack Karikas – Co founder – Mentor List Mastermind
Julia’s presentation was thoughtful and insightful, focused on our event themes of safety, culture and leadership. Her openness and honesty in talking about her professional and personal experiences resonated particularly well with the executive-level audience.
– Jo Lim – Chief Executive Officer – Vic Water
Julia’s session was great, she had really interesting insights and a depth of knowledge across issues from both her corporate and public career – we had great feedback
– Pat O’Shannassy – CEO Grain Trade Australia
An outstanding presentation… some important lessons for our industry
– Stephen Durkin, CEO, AusIMM
Thank you for openly sharing your story and experiences and for inspiring us to continue to strive to achieve a more equitable environment.
– Commercial Manager – ADCO Constructions
Julia was incredible! Engaging, entertaining and impactful. She made the event a success.
– Senior Executive – Payton Capital
Inspiring speech about resilience and courage
– Attendee, Women in Law Forum
Julia Banks was the best rated speaker of the day.
– Governance Institute of Australia
Julia was inspiring and authentic and made our event so successful.
– Deloitte executive