About

Julie Tugend is a seasoned management consultant and certified executive coach with over 30 years experience working with foundations, community-based organizations, and government agencies. Her expertise includes organizational development, board governance, retreat facilitation, mediation/conflict resolution, team-building, personnel management and writing/editing. Julie has extensive experience in managing leadership transitions and includes Interim CEO engagements in her services.

Prior to starting her consulting practice, Julie served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for The California Endowment, where she oversaw day-to-day operations of the $3.5 billion foundation and led the planning effort for the Endowment’s award-winning conference center.

Julie began her career in Mayor Tom Bradley’s office, where she served as Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff, and liaison to the Los Angeles Unified School District. She was appointed Acting Executive Director for the Los Angeles Human Relations Commission in 1990 and later served as Associate Director for the Los Angeles Alliance for a Drug Free Community.

Julie graduated from Reed College where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science. She studied dispute resolution (ADR) at Pepperdine Law School’s Dispute and is a certified mediator. In 2001 the California Endowment sponsored Julie’s participation in Harvard Business School’s Women’s Executive Leadership Program where she studied executive management alongside top female business executives from across the country. Julie is an alumnus of the Second City Los Angeles Conservatory and uses improvisation techniques in her trainings and workshops.

Ms. Tugend completed the Center for Non-Profit Management’s Executive Coaching Program in 2014 and is an International Coach Federation (ICF) certified professional coach.