Julie Lenzer Kirk
• United States: Washington D.C. Metro Area
• professional training
Current:
Founder, Path Forward International
Lead Instructor, ACTiVATE at UMBC
Past:
President & CEO, Applied Creative Technologies, Inc.
Consultant, IBM
Julie Lenzer Kirk
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Address: Washington D.C. Metro Area
Current:
- Author at The ParentPreneur Edge: What Parenting Teaches About Building a Successful Business (Wiley)
- Founder at Path Forward International
Past:
- President & CEO at Applied Creative Technologies, Inc.
- Consultant at IBM
Education:
- Texas A&M University
People Network: 106
Industry: Professional Training & Coaching
Websites:
Julie Lenzer Kirk’s Summary
Julie Lenzer Kirk harnesses her experience as a successful and award-winning IT entrepreneur to assist others in realizing their dream of entrepreneurship and taking their already-established entrepreneurial companies to the next level.
Her book, “The ParentPreneur Edge: What Parenting Teaches About Building a Successful Business” (John Wiley & Sons) shares business tips and advice for starting, growing, and running a business - including considerations for work/life balance - using parenting metaphors and is available online and in bookstores across the globe.
Ms. Kirk is President of Path Forward International, which provides workshops, keynotes, and consulting to give entrepreneurial companies and individuals a “Boot in the Butt™” to launch new ideas, grow existing ventures, find their work/life balance, and fine-tune their leadership skills. She is also the Lead Instructor for the nationally-acclaimed ACTiVATE program (www.umbc.edu/activate), which leads experienced women through starting a high-tech business by licensing government and university technologies.
Ms. Kirk’s activities in entrepreneurial empowerment is not limited to the United States – she also works to foster entrepreneurship internationally. She was a delegate to the Middle East Partnership Initiative’s (MEPI) Arab Businesswomen’s Summit in Tunisia in 2005. More recently, she has been working with the U.S. State Department and other NGO’s to create and participate in the US-Iraqi Businesswomen’s Partnership Initiative. She also participates as a featured speaker to foreign guests through the US International Visitor’s program and was recently awarded a grant to provide training to women entrepreneurs in South Africa.
She is a sought-after speaker on topics of entrepreneurship, business management and leadership, and balancing work and family.
Julie Lenzer Kirk’s Specialties:
Creating an award-winning work-life balanced work place, business start-up / entrepreneurship, software commercialization, harnessing data and turning it into actionable information
Author
The ParentPreneur Edge: What Parenting Teaches About Building a Successful Business (Wiley)
(Publishing industry)
June 2007 — Present (1 year)
This is a business book that uses parenting analogies to provide tips and techniques for starting, growing, and running a business. It also provides insight into how others - from work-at-home to consultants to hundred million dollar corporations - have done that while raising kids at the same time.
Eductional Details:
Texas A&M University
BS, Computer Science, 1985 — 1988
- Activities and Societies:
- Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), IEEE, Student Engineer's Council
Julie Lenzer Kirk’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
Additional Information
Julie Lenzer Kirk’s Websites:
- My Website
- My Website
Julie Lenzer Kirk’s Groups:
- Professional Speakers and Seminar Leaders member