Julie Trell

Julie Trell has been challenging and inverting norms throughout her career, making waves with her fresh perspective and innovative thinking. When she redesigned a previous job title to ‘Vice President of All Things Fun, Meaningful & Rewarding’ at Salesforce Foundation, it was a powerful reinforcement of her values, which quickly became integral to the workplace culture around her.

Julie’s career has centred around building connections between people, programs and ecosystems. She describes herself as a ‘Human API’, capturing her ability to utilise her network to empower startups by spotting opportunities and acting as a catalyst for growth and development. Using her experience as head of Telstra’s startup accelerator, muru-D and Executive Director of the Workday Foundation, she’s currently building up her Playful Purpose practice of engaging leaders of every stage and experience level to use the Other AI* to become more confident, empathetic, and adaptive. Julie is the Country Lead, Australia, for Coralus (formerly SheEO) after helping to launch it in the US. She’s the Corporate Play Enabler with one of the Coralus Ventures, Indigital, where she’s using her EdTech background and corporate experience to support Indigital’s corporate strategy.

*Applied Improv