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Who We Are |
For nearly twenty-five years, Julie has been creating environments where wonderful breakthroughs occur. As founder of five companies, Julie performed all startup functions including writing business plans, securing investment capital, establishing offices, negotiating vendor contracts, and hiring employees. As President and CEO, she guided product development, pioneering technologies, and positioning services in response to business market needs. Julie directed all aspects of strategic partnership development and customer acquisition including establishing and negotiating channel partnerships, and organizing and leading sales efforts. As President of the Transilient Group, LLC, Julie devotes her professional leadership to developing and coaching individuals, companies, and organizations, providing direction based in creativity, innovation, discovery, and sustainability. She has received a number of awards for her entrepreneurial work, including the State of Michigan Small Business Development Center Service Award and Communicator of the Year from Women in Communications. In addition to successfully establishing for-profit companies, Julie has also founded non-profit organizations including With the Grain Foundation and the Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy. For two years she cultivated philanthropic relationships for The Nature Conservancy, resulting in millions raised for the conservation of natural communities and biodiversity. Julie is an Associate Professor at Western Michigan University, teaching courses on Coaching in the Holistic Health Department. She holds the following degrees and certifications:
She is currently working on a Graduate Certificate in Spiritual Formation from Columbia Theological Seminary and is planning to enter a PhD program in Peace Building and Conflict Transformation.
Maya is a Norwegian Elkhound / Husky hybrid. Her keen ability to analyze like-minded individuals and discern their intentions provides valuable insight to her co-workers. Originally from Norway (so her ancestry suggests), no one is quite clear how she found her way to Southwest Michigan nine years ago. Her main focus is to corral the Elk, Wolves, and Bears in town. She is clearly performing an excellent job since these preditors have not been spotted in Three Rivers for several decades. Maya joined Transilient Group in July 2008, having come highly recommended by her rescue foster mom. Julie is grateful that Maya is willing to share of herself so fully, and delights in the unending surprises of transformation that Maya reveals on a daily basis.
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As an artist, Julie is inspired to create 
"Julie and Transilient have been transforming for me in so many ways. I found Julie as I was journeying through a life stage that questioned the very core of my belief systems. I wasn’t sure who I was or what on earth I was doing here in this lifetime. I knew I had a purpose, something meaningful to be doing. I knew that it was important to find what that is and how to bring it into being. Julie led us down that path of discovery, dropping bread crumbs to show the way and making us work for each critical bit of information. The work was hard, the digging deep but the value of the gem uncovered is incalculable.
