Julianne E. Maurseth, Ph.D., founded Awake at Work - a consulting firm since 1996 to organizations, teams and leaders committed to creating consciously ethical, healthy, effective and socially responsible work environments. She has over 20 years of management experience in various industries and non-profit organizations, and is an expert in organizational psychology, group dynamics and human behavior. Julianne has developed and integrated positive culture change and customized organizational systems in corporations undergoing rapid growth, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and restructuring – which grounded her commitment to socio-economic justice within the workplace. She understands the various systems that aid or inhibit healthy organizations and work relationships, and helps clients get to the root causes of what to change and how to do it. Julianne is also an executive coach to leaders across many industries, using transformative methods of perception, awareness and conscious choice to help them integrate their professional development with their personal integrity. (Please see her website for a list of client organizations).
As an expert facilitator and educator, Julianne has developed and conducted numerous seminars in leadership development, communication skills, team building, conflict resolution, human resources and other subjects to corporations, executive groups and professional associations. She designed the “Conscious Choice Leadership” program which combines leading-edge brain science with the ethics of choice as leaders. Julianne facilitates the Responsible Management® programs, which have provided practical skills training to managers across the United States and Canada since 1983. She is currently an associate professor of organizational behavior and social impacts of enterprises with the Green MBA program at Dominican University of California, taught MBA students from 1995 to 2005 at Pepperdine University, Claremont University, and CSU Northridge, and was an educational consultant and facilitator at the Museum of Tolerance regarding how leading-edge brain science on human perception supports diversity in public education.
Julianne completed her Ph.D. and M.S. in Organizational Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology. Her doctoral research targeted social responsibility in consulting to the healthcare industry. She also has an M.A. degree in Human Development, and is a qualified facilitator and administrator of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, the 16PF and the Five Factor Model of Personality, and uses several other assessment instruments, such as the Enneagram. Julianne’s skilled use of assessments helps individual leaders and teams develop conscious choice in their actions at work, thereby radically improving their collaborative effectiveness at many levels.
She is a member of the Board of Directors for SAGE (Solano Advocates Green Environments), was a Board member for 6 years with the Olive View-UCLA Medical Center Foundation, and was a community organizer for 10 years, serving on the Board of the Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council and interfacing with the Los Angeles City Council to protect rural ecology from over-development. She is also a member of several professional organizations including: the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, the International Academy of Business Disciplines, the Society for Human Resources Management, the American Society for Training & Development, and the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association. As a public speaker, Julianne has frequently been asked to give her presentation on “Understanding Conflicts at Work and in the World”.
