Julie Shifman

Julie Shifman is an inspirational, award winning, speaker, author and business owner. Julie believes in every woman’s ability to challenge herself and to grow as Julie herself continues to do. She started her career as a professional ballet dancer and then became a highly successful lawyer in New York City and in Cincinnati before founding her company Act Three in 2008. She is also a certified coach and was an adjunct professor of business law at Xavier University. She recently received the prestigious Athena award by Cincy Magazine and was named as a Woman to Watch by The Cincinnati Enquirer.

Julie Shifman energizes women to live their best lives. She challenges her audience to Imagine a changed life by using her own personal story of Imagining and changing; from ballerina to law partner… to stay at home mother… to business owner. And Julie shares that Imagining alone is not enough. It’s the combination of Imagining and Doing that creates the magic.

Julie speaks with passion, humor, and heart as she energizes women to both Imagine what’s next for them and then to take one small step at a time as they Do It. Not satisfied to just inspire her audience to imagine, she calls upon them to act. Each audience member is encouraged to leave with a written commitment to move forward towards achieving their goals.

Julie is the founder and President of Act Three, an organization that helps women to define their next stage of life and to create their own personal action plan for actually living out that life. She is the author of the book Act Three: Creating the Life You Want which illustrates the Act Three process using the stories and life lessons of remarkable women she interviewed across the country. Julie has also created a documentary film featuring many of these incredible women.