Julie Tugend is a non-profit management consultant and certified executive coach with over 30 years of experience working with foundations, non-profit organizations, and government agencies. Her expertise includes interim leadership, organizational development, board governance, executive coaching, human resources, conflict management, writing/editing, retreat facilitation and team building.

Prior to starting her consulting practice, Ms. Tugend served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for The California Endowment, where she oversaw day-to-day operations of the $3.5 billion foundation and led the planning effort for the Endowment’s award-winning conference center.

Julie began her career in Mayor Tom Bradley’s office, where she served as Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff and liaison to the Los Angeles Unified School District. She was appointed Acting Executive Director for the Los Angeles Human Relations Commission in 1990 and later served as Associate Director for the Los Angeles Alliance for a Drug Free Community.

Julie has held a number of interim executive positions including serving as Interim President and CEO for the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, where she helped the foundation’s board, staff, and key stakeholders ready the organization for their new leaders’ success.

Julie graduated from Reed College where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science. She studied alternative dispute resolution (ADR) at Pepperdine Law School and completed the Harvard Business School’s Women’s Executive Leadership Program in 2001.
Ms. Tugend completed the Center for Non-Profit Management’s Executive Coaching Program in 2014 and was certified by the International Coach Federation as a professional coach (PCC) in 2015. Julie is an alumnus of the Second City Los Angeles Conservatory and uses improvisation techniques in communication trainings and team building

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