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Julie Lancaster is CEO and head leadership development expert for Lancaster Leadership. Empowering leadership strategy for over 75,000 clients, Lancaster presents a powerful leadership framework that includes poignant stories and actionable strategies about creating workplaces of trust and innovation. She helps people take their leadership beyond words and into action by providing leader and team development programs focusing on leadership skills, future-focused strategy, and workplace culture.

Lancaster has had a multifaceted career, including time as a rock-climbing instructor and outdoor education and garden director, to Peace Corps volunteer, to professor and dean of education who taught courses on the psychology of motivation and interpersonal communication. Her work combines the schools of psychology, business, coaching, and teaching to create transformative programming for leaders and teams. She was adjunct instructor of the year for CollegeAmerica/Center for Excellence in Education.

Lancaster works with organizations whose leaders believe change is possible, appreciate being pushed, and seek to invite both productivity and joy. She is a contributing author to the 2024 book Triumphs of Transformation: Inspiring Stories of Resilience and Life Change, named to the Los Angeles Tribune's critically acclaimed bestseller list. Lancaster also was a Moth StorySLAM event winner in Phoenix, Arizona.

When not in boardrooms or retreat venues, Lancaster can be found digging in the dirt or hiking across Spain or her home state of Arizona.

JULIELANCASTER

@LANCASTERLEADERSHIP

LancasterLeadership.com

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Stories turn feeling into action--research shows they increase our willingness to act by 261 percent.

Think about that the next time you click through a graph-heavy quarterly report with your team.

Thirty years ago, Julie Lancaster began studying teams and what causes them to succeed and fail. She's delivered 900 performance evaluations and worked with teams ranging from college faculty, outdoor educators, cross-cultural teachers, government employees, to board members and has found three consistent takeaways: People love or hate stories depending on how they are told. Personal stories inspire action and connection. A toolkit of practical strategies to draw from gets more successful outcomes.

Beyond Words gives you bite-size, research-based strategies paired with relevant storytelling from Lancaster's experience that cut through the noise and inspire real action. Whether you are a long-winded storyteller who drones on and takes hostages or you don't tell any stories at all, you will harvest and develop your own authentic stories that create connection, relevance, and inspiration using the REST Method.

Considering that inspired people are twice as productive, this has massive implications for you, your people, and the team as a whole. By reframing inspiration as something rooted in looking backward to lived experiences, we correct the outdated notion that inspiration is rare or innate. Instead, we find how it can be intentionally cultivated to create workplaces that thrive in an artificial intelligence age--when human stories are more precious than ever.