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Work With Julia Toothacre: Speaker, Career Expert & Podcast Guest
Looking for a sharp, direct, "no-BS" expert to speak on modern workplace trends, career navigation, or leadership visibility? Julia Toothacre brings 15 years of experience, real-world strategy, and actionable insights to your audience, podcast, or corporate event.
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Julia Toothacre is a career strategist, author, speaker, and podcast host who helps professionals make informed career decisions, navigate workplace challenges, and take a more active role in managing their careers.
Her approach combines career development expertise with a realistic understanding of the personal, professional, and external factors that influence career decisions. Rather than offering one-size-fits-all advice, Julia helps people understand their circumstances, determine what matters to them, and identify where they have the ability to act.
About Julia
Julia Toothacre is a career strategist, author, speaker, and host of the Control Your Career podcast with more than 15 years of experience in career development. She spent eight years working in university career development and has since coached and taught professionals across industries and career stages.
Julia has developed and taught career development courses for universities and LinkedIn Learning, and her expertise has been featured in Forbes, Newsweek, CNBC, Fast Company, Yahoo Finance, and other national media. Her upcoming book, Control Your Career, introduces a practical five-stage process for navigating career decisions, challenges, and opportunities.
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Realistic Reality: What You Need to Know Before Making Your Next Career Move
Career decisions are influenced by more than what you want next. Julia helps professionals evaluate the personal, career, and external realities affecting their options so they can make informed decisions about what makes sense now.
Why Good Career Advice Can Still Be Bad Advice
Career advice isn't one-size-fits-all. Julia explores how personality, values, career stage, finances, culture, lived experience, goals, and circumstances can determine whether commonly recommended career strategies make sense for you.
How Much Should You Compromise for Your Career?
Every career involves some compromise, but how do you know when you've gone too far? Julia explores career misalignment, values, work preferences, environment, and how to determine what may need to change.
The Hidden Barriers Between You and Your Next Career Move
Knowing what you want doesn't always make it easy to act. Julia explores the internal, life, skill-based, environmental, and executive-function barriers that can interfere with career progress and how identifying the right barrier can lead to a more useful strategy.
Why Do We Wait Until Something Goes Wrong to Manage Our Careers?
Career management shouldn't begin when you need a new job. Julia discusses the relationships, visibility, professional growth, and everyday habits that help professionals actively manage their careers even when things are going well.
Control Your Career: Stop Waiting for Your Career to Happen to You
Drawing from her book Control Your Career, Julia explores how professionals can realistically evaluate their circumstances, better understand themselves, determine what they want, take intentional action, and develop habits that support their careers over time.
Additional Areas of Expertise
Career growth and advancement; career transitions; networking and professional relationships; workplace culture; difficult managers; professional visibility and influence; burnout and career misalignment; employee career development; leadership and management; job search and hiring; values and personality at work; goal setting; professional reputation; and ongoing career management.
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