Julie Chambers-Wadsworth

About Julie Chambers-Wadsworth

Inquire within. I do coffee chats. Ask explicitly for one.I’ve spent nearly a decade designing and scaling leadership ecosystems at global organizations; most recently at AWS, where I own end-to-end leadership development across 10+ business units reaching thousands of leaders globally.What I actually do is study how humans behave inside systems, then build psychologically safe learning environments that change how leaders show up - for their teams, their organizations, and themselves.(Yes, absolutely we use AI.)Across my work streams and orgs, my programs have achieved 94% NPS, improved engineer promotion rates by 5.2%, and delivered $757 cost-per-leader efficiency at scale.(Ask me how.)I reject rigid hierarchies and one-size-fits-all models. I build spaces for reflection, dialogue, dissent, and real skill-building: curriculum grounded in positive psychology, executive presence, and the invisible forces (power, narrative, identity, trust) that shape performance more than any framework ever will.After years of building at enterprise scale, I’m drawn toward organizations where the work I build actually lands: with a team, a culture, a leader, and I can see it take hold. I bring enterprise methodology and a practitioner’s instincts. I’m looking for the table where both are genuinely needed.

Experience

1. Global Leadership Development Lead

   Amazon Web Services (AWS)

   Sep 2023 — Present

   Own end-to-end design and delivery of global leadership development programming across the AWS Support ecosystem, reaching 10+ business units including Cloud Support, Trust & Safety, Amazon Managed Services, Escalation Management, Unified Operations, and GovCloud.• Drive VP-level strategic initiatives including enterprise-wide growth conversation programs, establishing new norms for how leaders at all levels engage with performance and potential.• Built and scaled the Leaders as Teachers facilitator development program; building instructional capability in-house across technical, operational, and trust-focused functions worldwide.• Integrated applied AI into learning design and program operations, accelerating content development cycles and personalizing learning pathways across a globally distributed workforce.• Partner with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders across 10+ business units to align leadership strategy with organizational priorities at scale.

Education

• Stanford University School of Engineering

  Certificate: Introduction to Probability Management

• Yale School of Management

  Certificate, Connected Leadership

• Yale School of Management

  Certificate, Organizational Leadership