Julie Locke

Julie comes to Vantage Partners as Managing Director and the resident Vice President of Executive Coaching. Her career spans 20 years of Executive Coaching and Executive Search with tier 1 global VC-backed and public technology companies and individuals. Julie’s expertise spans Consumer and Enterprise markets and draws upon a unique background that includes Organizational Development, Executive Search, Womens’ Studies, and Psychology. Bringing a highly consultative style to bear, she often works with first-time CEOs, and functional leaders, and organizations developing their employee growth strategy and with high potential leaders honing their leadership skills. Julie strongly supports companies advocating social good and human well-being/health and is committed to transparency, integrity, and difference.

Julie is originally from Ireland and earned her BA in Political Science from Furman University, MA and Ph.D. (ABD) in International Relations from the University of South Carolina and MA in Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). She graduated Magna Cum Laude and was awarded Phi Beta Kappa. In addition, she is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) certified Personal and Executive Coach, is certified in the EQ-I 2.0 and EQ-360, and trained in a number of additional Level B psychometric assessments.