Julie Diamond, Ph.D. is a facilitator, organizational consultant and trainer who has worked in the field of human and organizational change for over 25 years. She utilizes the Process-oriented model, which identifies and leverages the emergent learning and innovation implicit in obstacles and conflicts. She is one of original founders of the Process Work Institute (www.processwork.org), a non-profit institute and graduate school dedicated to research and training in process-oriented facilitation and currently serves as its Vice President of Academic Affairs.
She has designed enterprise development programs in former communist countries, helped reinvent Crisis Intervention Training for the Portland Police, and is currently consulting on the creation of a program in personal transformation for social change agents. No matter the project, she is passionate about fostering growth in people and in organizations, and helping people bring their deepest selves into their work and life. Julie has worked in over 15 countries, and across multiple disciplines. Past and current clients such as the New Zealand Health Funding Authority, Nike, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Macedonian Trade Union, Greenpeace, Portland (Oregon) Police Bureau, New South Wales (Australia) Department of Education and Training, Intel, Cascade AIDS Project, Community Services Northwest.
Her commitment to education extends to her work with children and the public school system. She is a sponsor for at-risk children in the I Have a Dream Oregon foundation (www.ihadoregon.org) which helps children from low-income communities graduate from college by providing long-term mentoring, tutoring, and enrichment beginning in third grade. Julie is also an avid cyclist, skier, hiker and outdoor enthusiast. She spends her free time in the Coastal ranges of Oregon.
