With Julian, you will hear true and inspiring stories.

You will walk away with a new and tangible sense of how to succeed.

You will be ready to give up the good to go for the great.

“A word geek.”

That is how Julian Guthrie describes herself. A love of words, language, and storytelling has taken her from a childhood spent devouring books (and reading the dictionary!) to a 25-year career in daily journalism, where she won numerous awards and had her work nominated multiple times for the Pulitzer Prize.

She is the author of five books, including two national best-sellers. Her book, Alpha Girls, is described as Hidden Figures meets The Social Network and is being adapted for television.

Julian has interviewed some of the world’s most successful and interesting people, from Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Richard Branson, Peter Thiel and Elon Musk to Melinda Gates, Marissa Mayer, Christy Turlington, and the late Prof. Stephen Hawking (who wrote the afterword to her third book). Julian has spent years researching how men and women succeed – and it is not the same.

Driven by an understanding of how stories can open minds, change lives, and jumpstart industries, and how language can be used to connect or divide us, Julian is now the founder and CEO of the startup, Alphy, which has developed a proprietary technology called Reflect AI to detect and flag harm in digital communication, while advancing respectful language. Reflect AI detects harm in real time for 26 different types of unlawful, unethical and discriminatory communication. Alphy works with companies to mitigate the risk of litigation and reputational damage stemming from harmful and unlawful communication at work.

Julian’s personal story shows how a love of something – whatever it is – can take you far in life. “Going from a little girl who loved to read to journalism to author to the founder of a tech company actually feels like a continuum,” Julian says. “I just took my love, my skills, and pivoted into new mediums. At its core, though, I’m still telling stories and fixated on words.”

Alpha Girls:

Julian is drawn to improbable underdog stories that combine great human drama with game-changing innovations. Her book, Alpha Girls, is the untold story of the pioneering women in Silicon Valley who bucked the system and found ways to survive and thrive in the high-stakes, male-dominated world of venture capital, and lifted other women up along the way. Julian will share their stories – and what’s more, how writing the book opened her eyes to where women are in the world—and where they’re NOT. Julian’s own story has continued with the creation of Alphy, where she is using her understanding of language to mitigate harm and advance respect at work.