Julia Gentry
Senior leaders, particularly women, are running their organisations on depleted reserves. The grind that built the career is now the obstacle to leading well in it. Restoring clarity of purpose and the capacity to make sharp decisions is a leadership problem, not a wellness one.
Julia Gentry is a leadership coach and author who helps women in growth-stage businesses move past burnout and limiting beliefs into a more deliberate version of senior leadership.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Julia Gentry
- A coaching track record concentrated in growth-stage businesses in the $10 to $100 million revenue band, where the founder and the leadership team are the same people and personal capacity is the binding constraint.
- A signature D.R.E.A.M. framework she uses with executive teams to close the gap between stated ambition and the daily decisions that contradict it.
- Direct authority with women leaders navigating the specific tension between professional ambition and the rest of their lives, written about in her book Dream – I Dare You.
- A strong following in the US residential real estate sector, where she is repeatedly booked back into the same firms and conferences.
Biography highlights
- CEO and founder of The Dream Factory & Co., leading a team of eight.
- Author of Dream – I Dare You: A Wake-Up Call to Greater Alignment in Your Faith, Family, Career, and Community and the companion Dream – Workbook.
- More than a decade coaching executive teams at companies grossing $10 to $100 million annually.
- Co-founder of six businesses across 16 years as an entrepreneur, including a real estate operation.
- Named client engagements include Harcourts North America, Total Real Estate Group and Keller Williams agents and brokerages.
- Creator of the D.R.E.A.M. framework, used in keynote sessions, group coaching and an eight-week curriculum.
Biography
Most leadership burnout is not a wellness problem. It is a clarity problem. The leader knows what the next quarter requires, but cannot remember what the next decade is for. That is the gap Julia Gentry works in.
She is the CEO and founder of The Dream Factory & Co., a coaching practice she built after a career in residential real estate that ended, by her own account, in burnout in her early thirties. Over the past decade, she has coached executive teams at growth-stage businesses in the $10 to $100 million revenue range, where the leadership group and the founders are usually the same small set of people.
Her book Dream – I Dare You is the written form of that work. It argues that alignment across professional ambition, family life, and personal conviction is the precondition for sustained senior performance, not a soft add-on to it. The companion Dream – Workbook turns the same argument into a working tool for leadership teams and small groups.
Her commercial track record is strongest in the US residential real estate sector, where firms including Harcourts North America, Total Real Estate Group and Keller Williams brokerages have brought her back to work with leaders and agents. The D.R.E.A.M. framework she developed is now used in keynote settings, in an eight-week curriculum, and in direct executive coaching with founders who have stopped enjoying the company they built.
Key speaking topics
- Self-leadership and burnout recovery
- Women in senior leadership
- Purpose and alignment in growth-stage businesses
- Limiting beliefs in executive teams
- Leadership in real estate and entrepreneur-led firms
- Faith-aligned leadership
Ideal for
- Founders and CEOs of growth-stage businesses in the $10 to $100 million revenue band
- Women leadership networks and senior women’s events
- Real estate brokerages, agent groups and franchise leadership conferences
- Faith-aligned corporate and entrepreneurial audiences
Audience outcomes
- A clear read on where personal capacity is the bottleneck in the business, not the strategy
- Language for the gap between stated ambition and actual decision-making in the leadership team
- A practical structure, the D.R.E.A.M. framework, for resetting that gap
- Permission and a method for women leaders to redefine what success in the role looks like
- A direct challenge to grind-culture assumptions about what senior leadership requires
Talks
A keynote on leading from abundance rather than scarcity inside the business.
Key takeaways:
- A read on the resources the leadership team already has but is not using
- A framework for shifting from defensive to generative leadership decisions
- A practical first move out of grind-culture defaults
A talk on how alignment across personal and professional priorities produces sustainable senior leadership.
Key takeaways:
- The cost of misalignment between stated values and daily decisions
- A method for ordering priorities before the calendar orders them by default
- Specific markers of alignment in a leadership team
A keynote arguing that grinding is not the path to senior performance.
Key takeaways:
- The leadership behaviours that drive burnout in the team, not just the individual
- The difference between recovery and reinvention
- Concrete shifts that move a leadership team off grind defaults
A talk on identifying and dismantling the limiting beliefs that quietly cap senior careers.
Key takeaways:
- How limiting beliefs show up in executive decision-making, not just self-talk
- A method for naming them in a leadership group setting
- A frame for bolder decisions in the next planning cycle
A keynote rethinking how women leaders define success at senior level.
Key takeaways:
- Why work-life balance is the wrong frame for senior women
- An alternative built around alignment and capacity
- Practical implications for how women leaders structure the working week
Videos
Testimonials
Books
Fees
| EUR | GBP | USD | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home Country | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |
| Asia Pacific | €12000 to €40000 | £10,001 - £35,000 | $15000 - $50000 |
| Europe | €12000 to €40000 | £10,001 - £35,000 | $15000 - $50000 |
| Middle East & Africa | €12000 to €40000 | £10,001 - £35,000 | $15000 - $50000 |
| South America | €12000 to €40000 | £10,001 - £35,000 | $15000 - $50000 |
| United Kingdom | €12000 to €40000 | £10,001 - £35,000 | $15000 - $50000 |
| US East Coast | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |
| US West Coast | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |
| Virtual | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |