Managing Director
Julian, a queer Black man, began his career in executive search and organizational development over a decade ago. He was motivated by the common refrain that strong multiracial and diverse talent were not interested in public interest/social impact as a career. Julian knew that this premise was not reflective of the communities he was a part of, and he believed that people of color were not only interested in this work but were critical to organizational impact. As Managing Director at NPAG, Julian’s work focuses not only on executive search in the critical need for greater representation of individuals of diverse backgrounds and lived experiences, but to challenging mission-driven clients, to create the conditions that allow people to bring their brilliance. This requires organizations not just to identify dynamic talent, but to infuse equity into policies, practices, systems, and structures that support healthy organizational culture that drive organizational impact.
He has led searches for a wide range of national clients that include democracy reformers, think tanks, arts and culture institutions, public health organizations, policy and legal advocacy organizations, racial and immigrant justice organizations, foundations, and social services organizations. Julian believes in a deeply tailored approach to each engagement, that places equity and inclusive hiring practices at its center. He designs and delivers implicit bias trainings and coaches clients on integrating equity-based practices in their process design, to ensure that clients are considering less conventional candidate profiles and arm them with the tools to help route out common hiring biases as they begin to evaluate candidates.
Prior to NPAG, Julian led internal talent acquisition for several organizations’ including the Southern Poverty Law Center, Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) and College Track. Much of his search work initially found its genesis in his own personal biography. Julian earned his B.A. from Morehouse College where he was a student activist working on service projects as a Bonner Scholar, supporting nonprofits in the greater Atlanta area focused on economic empowerment for historically maligned communities, supporting educational equity efforts with Our Family Table and volunteering as an on-campus recruiter for Teach for America. He spent several years teaching 5th grade in Bankhead (at the time an economically depressed area in Northwest Atlanta), before attending and earning his J.D. at Howard University School of Law as a Merit Scholarship recipient.
Julian is based in Dallas where he enjoys exploring his new neighborhood in the Bishop Arts/Oak Cliff neighborhood. He is a proud plant dad to 43 rare and not-so-rare houseplants and a member of Friends of Oak Cliff Parks which is committed to restoring horticulture in and preserving the historic parks of Oak Cliff. He has two goofy French bulldogs Carter and Ellie who he adores and is an amateur ceramist who enjoys perfecting his technique on the pottery wheel.