Julie E.

• As an Advisor to A Foundery, I provide strategic guidance to founders and leadership teams building and scaling global service businesses.
• My work focuses on operating-model design, organizational scalability, workforce strategy, service delivery, automation, and the responsible use of AI to improve efficiency and client outcomes.
• I advise leaders on how to:
• Build scalable global and offshore delivery models
• Translate growth strategies into practical operating plans
• Establish the governance, processes, and performance measures needed to scale
• Use automation and AI to improve quality, capacity, and profitability
• Strengthen leadership capability while maintaining client trust and service excellence
• Position global delivery models effectively for U.S.-based clients and investors
• I bring more than 20 years of experience leading global operations, workforce transformation, shared services, and technology-enabled change at enterprise scale.
• My advisory work draws on experience managing organizations of up to 500 employees, supporting operations across 66 countries, overseeing significant enterprise spend, and delivering more than $230 million in verified
• savings.

• As the Owner & Principal Consultant, I parachute into fast-growing companies where structure has not caught up with ambition, bringing operating model design, AI-enabled automation, and workforce analytics straight to
• founders and executive teams.
• Translates ambiguous organizational goals into prioritized roadmaps, decision frameworks, and execution plans, giving clients in rapid growth a defensible path from chaos to control.
• Architected AI-enabled workflows, low-code applications, and automated reporting pipelines that strip out manual effort and sharpen decision quality without new infrastructure spend.
• Shipped CollabStack, SignalForge, and BizBudgetFlow, three AI-enabled platforms covering marketplace orchestration, financial modeling, and hiring decisions, each production-ready within weeks of kickoff.

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• Founder-led digital brand and creative initiative focused on community engagement, storytelling, product development, and audience-centered digital experiences.
• Built and managed brand direction, digital engagement strategy, and collaborative creative workflows while exploring innovative approaches to online community building, customer interaction, and scalable digital product concepts.
• This work reflects a broader interest in innovation, systems thinking, digital experimentation, and founder-led execution across modern business environments.

• As the Director of Global Business Operations & Workforce Transformation, I directed six global businesses with 500 employees, 11 direct reports, and roughly $1B in operational scope across 66 countries, owning every
• number I presented to the board.
• Owned full P&L governance for a $1B operational scope, presenting board-level actuals, forecasts, and ROI cases while cutting cost per supported employee by 50% and holding compliance accuracy at 99.
• 9% across 66 countries.
• Cut organizational headcount by more than 50% in 18 months by tying workforce planning to automation delivery, then flattened management layers and widened spans to 11+ direct reports, compressing decision cycles across
• the organization.
• Launched 50+ AI-enabled workforce technologies spanning case management, forecasting, and executive reporting, partnering with product and engineering from requirements through deployment to cut cycle time and manual
• effort enterprise-wide.
• Authored enterprise-wide remote work and cross-border employment guidelines during the pandemic, addressing tax, payroll, and family reunification for thousands of stranded employees.
• Cut budget variance by 40% and accelerated forecasting cycles by 30% during COVID by rolling out integrated demand and capacity planning dashboards company-wide.

• Promoted three times in twelve years to ultimately direct six global businesses spanning mobility, immigration, relocation, tax, assignment management, business travel, and refugee hiring.
• Held accountability for 500 employees and 11 direct reports.
• Managed roughly $1B in operational scope across 66 countries.

• Scaled the global mobility function from 6 employees to 500 across 17 countries.
• Insourced work previously outsourced to third parties and stood up delivery hubs in India, Costa Rica, and the Philippines.
• Delivered a shared services model that cut third-party labor costs by 60% while improving quality.

• Ran the programs that moved talent across borders for one of the fastest-growing companies on earth.
• Learned that immigration work is operations work: high stakes, zero tolerance for error, and deeply human at its core.

• As the Senior Manager of Global Operations & Client Advisory, I managed worldwide client portfolios for a global immigration and professional services firm, and I earned a seat at a table few operators ever reach: the
• board of directors of Emigra Ogletree Worldwide, then the second largest immigration services provider in the world.
• Appointed to the board of directors of Emigra Ogletree Worldwide as its only non-attorney member, a seat typically reserved for senior partners, on the strength of client impact and revenue contribution.
• Restored satisfaction on distressed multinational accounts by diagnosing service failures and rebuilding delivery processes for complex global clients.
• Expanded scope from domestic casework to worldwide operations, managing global client portfolios against satisfaction, timeliness, cost, and compliance targets across multiple geographies.

• Advanced through three progressively senior roles over seven years within a global immigration and professional services firm.
• Elevated to the board of directors of Emigra Ogletree Worldwide as the only non-attorney member.

BAL is a corporate immigration law firm providing people-centered services and technology to support employers with work visas, compliance, and global mobility.

• Led the team that kept complex visa casework moving for multinational clients.
• Built the coordination muscle and quality discipline that defined my approach to global operations going forward.

• Started where the details live: individual cases, individual families, individual outcomes.
• Carried that ground-level view of the work into every leadership role since.

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