Dr. Juliane Pelfrey has over 15 years of experience helping individuals achieve their professional potential and organizations reach their potential through talent optimization practices. While she has a breath of experience in working with companies of various sizes and industry such as construction, staffing, bottling, print, education and healthcare, her passion is helping large family owned organizations achieve their potential and legacy through planning for the future leadership of their company.
Juliane chose to focus her doctoral research in this area. In 2021, she received her Doctorate of Education from North Central University. The focus of her research was on helping family owned companies develop sustainable succession planning and knowledge transfer practices. Her research in this area has continued beyond her education and she has a passion for helping organization not just select a successor but develop processes to engage and adopt the new leader through knowledge transfer, understanding motivation and developing trust.
“Process development is essential to organizational success, and I use proven models to assist organizations and leaders in exceeding their goals. However, what sets me apart is an in depth understanding that each organization has a unique story and that story impacts their “why” behind changes in their organization. Understanding trust and motivation in organizational culture is essential to helping them adopt processes to get their teams and organization to the next level” – Juliane Pelfrey
Areas of expertise include; Succession Development, Executive Development Programing, Leader Change Assimilation and Adoption, Organizational Design (People and Process) Performance Management, Job Architecture, Entrepreneur Mapping & Engagement.
When she is not focused in assisting organizations, or her research, Juliane enjoys being a sports mom to two very active children and a fur mom to her giant fur babies which keep her busy in her free time.
“I worked with Juliane in an informal coaching capacity during my career transition. She was very helpful in assisting with learning my new organization, and the expectations in my role and defining a strategy on what I should set as a priority in aligning with my boss and creating my strategy for the year.” Medical, Longterm Care
“I met Juliane through one of my professional networks. I began talking with her about some ideas for a business. We scheduled some time to walk through her Entrepreneur Assimilation program. This was so helpful. She was able to guide my thoughts to give me action items to get my business started. While I am still just a start up, her assistance was so helpful in making my dream of business ownership a reality.” Construction, Support
“We worked with Juliane to define a succession map for some of our key leadership positions as we worked through some substantial changes in our organization. We had critical leaders retiring and needed to get a quick plan to replace them in place. We worked with Juliane to help us set up a process to determine how we would identify next leader and insure kept them engaged to be able to execute the plan. She did a great job of simplifying the process as we do not have a large HR and mostly founders were involved in the planning.” Construction, Property Development
