Executive Coach and certified DISC Practitioner with over 30 years of international experience across leadership, communications and organisational culture. Held senior corporate roles at BHP Billiton, GlobalSantaFe and Schlumberger before founding her coaching practice. Specialist in leadership presence, behavioural insight, high-performance team development and culture change.
Julie Tushingham is an experienced Executive Coach, Leadership Facilitator and DISC Practitioner who works with senior leaders and teams to improve performance through deeper self-awareness, communication, and trust. With over 30 years of international experience across leadership, communications and organisational culture, she brings a rare blend of strategic insight and human understanding to every engagement.
Before founding her coaching practice, Julie held senior communications and leadership roles within global organisations across Europe and the United States — including BHP Billiton (Senior Specialist Communications, External Affairs Manager and Public Affairs Counsellor), GlobalSantaFe (Global Media Relations Manager) and Schlumberger Technologies (PR & Marketing Specialist). This background gives her a strong commercial and organisational lens, enabling her to work credibly with senior leaders navigating complexity, growth and pressure.
Julie is known for her calm, engaging style and her ability to create environments where individuals and teams can have honest conversations, strengthen collaboration, and perform at their best. She is a trusted thought partner to leaders seeking clarity, confidence, and authenticity in how they lead — and a senior facilitator across coaching, DISC profiling, high-performance team development, and culture and transition support.
Most executive coaches have one. Julie has all three: the DISC Practitioner certification, the 30+ years of senior international corporate experience, and the energy-sector commercial pedigree that boards and executive teams under real pressure actually relate to. The combination is rare — and exactly what senior leaders need when they want coaching that connects with the world they actually operate in.
Julie's commercial credibility comes from where she actually built it — senior roles inside global resources, energy, and international development organisations before founding her coaching practice.
Julie works with senior leaders and teams at the moments where behaviour, communication and culture become the difference between a strategy succeeding or stalling. The four contexts where her coaching has the most measurable impact:
Julie's offering covers executive coaching, DISC behavioural insight, high-performance team development and culture and transition support — all underpinned by 30+ years of senior leadership experience and the calm, structured facilitation style senior leaders actually want in the room.
One-to-one coaching focused on leadership presence, confidence, decision-making and impact — supporting senior leaders through promotion, transition, growth and pressure. Personal voice and influence built on real behavioural awareness.
Certified DISC assessments — individual and team — that create shared language, uncover blind spots and strengthen communication, collaboration and performance. Insight that translates directly into better team conversations.
Designs and facilitates programmes that build trust, openness, accountability and psychological safety within leadership and cross-functional teams — the foundations every high-performing team genuinely needs to operate at scale.
Supports organisations and leadership teams during periods of growth, restructuring or strategic change — ensuring people remain engaged and aligned through transition, and that the right behavioural foundations are embedded for what comes next.
If you're stepping into a bigger role, navigating senior team dynamics, supporting executive transitions, or building a culture of trust and high performance — Julie offers the behavioural depth, commercial credibility and calm facilitation senior leaders actually want in the room.
30+ years in senior corporate roles at BHP Billiton, GlobalSantaFe and Schlumberger before founding her coaching practice. Understands what executive pressure, board dynamics and organisational complexity actually feel like.
Certified DISC Practitioner and seasoned facilitator. Creates psychologically safe environments where senior leaders can have honest conversations, strengthen collaboration and perform at their best — without the noise.
Personal, precisely tailored coaching. Clients value the rare balance of empathy and stretch — safe spaces for honest reflection that translate into measurable growth in impact, communication and trust.
A senior executive coach, DISC practitioner and culture facilitator with 30+ years of international corporate leadership behind her — available for UK and EU coaching, team development and organisational change engagements at scale.
Julie's career arc runs from PR & Marketing at Schlumberger Technologies, through Global Media Relations at GlobalSantaFe and senior communications and external affairs leadership at BHP Billiton, into strategic partnerships at The Resource Alliance and on to founding her own coaching practice — a clean trajectory from corporate operator to trusted executive coach and leadership facilitator.
Contact Julie Tushingham for executive coaching, DISC-based leadership development and team effectiveness support. With over three decades of experience across leadership, communications and organisational culture, Julie helps leaders and teams unlock potential, strengthen trust, and perform at their best.
Especially valuable during moments of growth, change and pressure — when behavioural awareness, calm facilitation and commercial credibility actually move the dial.
Download CV → LinkedIn profileIf you are stepping into a bigger role, navigating senior team dynamics, supporting an executive transition, running a DISC-based team programme, or shaping a culture of trust and high performance — tell us in 25 minutes what you need. Julie or one of our 40+ senior consultants will tell you honestly whether we can help.