Julie Bateman

About Julie Bateman

Julie brings 30+ years of business, real estate and coaching experience to the table. Julie and her husband ran (and sold) a landscaping business for 10 years. Julie has operated as an independent real estate agent for 19+ years. She has mentored numerous agents, helping to develop a mentorship program for her firm. Additionally, Julie ran her firm’s productivity coaching program, overseeing a team of 7 coaches and cumulatively more than 300 agents. Julie has led her firm as CEO / Team Leader, managing an office of 250 agents with a staff of 7 amazing leaders by her side. Julie is also a John Maxwell certified coach / leader. In 2024 Julie served on the advisory board (Agent Leadership Council) for her firm and was Chair to the Culture and DEI committees, focused on ensuring a positive service and gratitude-based atmosphere, non-profit fundraising, community give-back events for the office and ensuring adequate resources, education and opportunities for ALL agents. Community service and service to others is foundational for Julie - both professionally and personally. She has a heart for ALL people and has a special spot for children and young adults. Julie has served for well over a decade with Junior Achievement, bringing lessons in economics and entrepreneurship to public schools for elementary through middle school-aged kids. She is certified for and teaches Quantum Leap for Kids through KW Next Gen, a 1-2 day session designed to help young adults (ages 14-26) identify their gifts, strengths and their ‘Big Why’ and to create a plan to help them pursue a life of purpose utilizing those. She actively hosts interns through a local high school and has served on the Business Alliance with a local high school as the Chair for over ½ decade, helping the school to partner with local businesses to provide internship opportunities to students. Julie also believes in giving back within her industry and spent about 3 years researching homelessness and affordable housing in Raleigh and Wake County and advocated with local governments (city and county) to push for zoning and building codes to be updated to allow for Tiny Homes to be built within municipality limits with the intention of helping the affordability of housing in the area and to provide a additional transition into housing for the homeless population.

Experience

1. Realtor Broker

   Keller Williams Preferred Realty

   Sep 2011 — Present