Julie Vance

Julie is the senior communication coach at Executive Voice. She helps entrepreneurs to articulate their vision and technical concepts to diverse constituencies, boosting their communicative strategies and enhancing the public delivery of their pitch content. Julie has coached individuals and teams in almost every division of Yale and supported corporate clients such as Deloitte, McKinsey, and Pfizer. Trained in psychology and linguistics (B.A., University of Pennsylvania), she shares fresh insights into pitch presentations, with her clients winning international competitions.  In support of the Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale, Julie offers faculty pitch review and coaching sessions during the pre-proposal process, and intensive faculty finalist coaching in advance of the Yale Innovation Summit. She also helps graduate students and professionals communicate their ideas, designs, and research. Her coaching areas include preparation techniques for high stakes events such as interviews, public speaking engagements, and job talks; communication strategy for negotiation, persuasion, and media appearances; and writing to communicate research to wider audiences.