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Julian March
Storytelling
Leadership Development
Transformational Leadership
Transform leadership and communication with Julian March, speaker and transformation practitioner. Julian works with senior leaders to develop storytelling systems, navigate change, and build human leadership, delivering strategic insights for global banks and innovation teams across Europe.
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Thought Leader
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Julian March is a leadership and transformation practitioner who brings hard-won insight to the challenges of modern leadership, change, and communication. He helps senior leaders adapt, align, and inspire through sharper storytelling and more human leadership. Julian started his career as a TV news producer before leading digital transformation at Sky, ITV, and NBC in New York.
He helped transform Future Plc into a FTSE 250 digital powerhouse and went on to become CEO of an innovation consultancy. But after two decades at the top, he burnt out, and in 2020, stepped off the corporate treadmill to build a portfolio life around consultancy, and his passions of ceramics and cycling. That decision may have saved his life.
In 2025, after discovering a serious heart condition, Julian had a pacemaker fitted; a stark reminder that growth isn’t always about acceleration. Sometimes it’s about clarity, creativity, and connection. Today, Julian works as a strategic advisor and coach to leaders across finance, technology, and science sectors. He’s developed a four-pillar framework for building a 'storytelling operating system', now used by global banks, sustainability pioneers, and innovation teams across Europe. Julian speaks regularly on leadership, innovation, men’s mental health, and what it really means to grow, not just as a business, but as a human.
Topics, sessions and talks
Technology is evolving on an exponential curve. The only problem is, humans aren’t. This gap lies at the heart of why so many change initiatives fail, not because the tech is wrong, but because people risk getting left behind. In this talk, Julian March shares a powerful framework for navigating the human side of tech-led transformation. Drawing on real-world experience across media, finance, and innovation, he’ll show you how to lead with clarity, alignment, and trust, even when the pace won’t slow down.
Leadership today isn’t always about having the answers, it’s more about knowing when to step in and when to step back. From the control room of a breaking news channel to the boardroom of a FTSE 250, Julian March has led teams through chaos, complexity, and reinvention. This talk explores the real work of leadership under pressure: staying calm, creating clarity, and using storytelling as a tool for alignment, trust, and momentum. Expect practical tools, sharp insights, and stories that remind you how much leadership is, at heart, a human act.
What if everything you believed about resilience was wrong? In this honest and reflective talk, Julian March shares his personal experience of burnout and the deeper leadership lessons it revealed. Told through the lens of his own journey as a senior leader, this session challenges outdated ideas of strength and performance, and reframes resilience as adaptability, honesty and the courage to let go. Expect practical insights, powerful reframing, and permission to lead and live differently.
Julian March brings a unique lens to storytelling, forged in the pressure cooker of live TV news and refined in the boardrooms of global media and FTSE 250 companies. In this sharp, practical session, he introduces his four-pillar framework for building a storytelling operating system: a repeatable approach to aligning identity, messaging, cadence and content. You’ll leave with a practical system for engaging teams, customers and stakeholders. Because without a story, strategy doesn’t land.
You know careers aren’t linear, but contrary to popular belief, they're not even necessarily zig-zagged. They’re a series of curves. Some you ride. Some you have to jump. In this reflective and energising talk, Julian March shares what he’s learned from a career built on well-timed reinventions: from TV news to digital media, from transformation leadership to portfolio life. With vivid stories and sharp insights, he explores how to stay relevant, resilient, and curious through each chapter, and how to leap before the curve flattens out, or worse, takes the dip.
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frequently asked questions
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To book Julian March, email julian.march@getapeptalk.com or call PepTalk on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US), and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm Julian's availability and speaking fee. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and about your audience.
Julian March structures his talks around personal narrative drawn from his career in broadcast media and corporate leadership, using specific episodes — such as his experience of burnout and his 2025 heart condition — to anchor broader frameworks. His session on storytelling as a leadership tool is built around a four-pillar framework he calls a storytelling operating system, which he has applied with clients across banking, sustainability, and innovation sectors in Europe.
Julian March's sessions address human-centred leadership through technological change, storytelling as a leadership tool, and resilience and identity under pressure. He led digital transformation at Sky, ITV, and NBC before becoming CEO of an innovation consultancy and has since developed a four-pillar storytelling framework used by global banks and innovation teams across Europe.
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