I'm an Imposter with Julie Langford

Tracy Sinclair chats with Julie Langford, financial services coaching pro, on how the imposter label hardens into identity — masking new roles, feeling “different,” and breeding senior-leader loneliness. Julie reveals how to normalize it, unpack humility’s hidden gifts, and bust through with gentle inquiry, timelines, creative tools, and iceberg coaching. They also unpack how social comparison fuels doubt in adults and young people.Julie Langford, ACC is a programme facilitator and coach with Coach Advancement. Julie is both a coach and leadership consultant. She has worked as a trusted adviser to leaders, coached individuals, running executive team effectiveness sessions and delivering large scale leadership interventions for Top 120 and Top 700 executive leaders at NatWest Group. Julie has 30 years of experience in the financial services and banking industries comprising responsibilities across multiple disciplines including communications, change management, regulatory change programmes, operations and project management. Julie is currently working with C-suite leaders to help them and their teams excel.Mental health, wellbeing, support and empathy all play a key part of Julie’s approach. Her personal drivers are about helping others grow, develop and achieve whilst staying true to who they are. Julie is especially keen to support those who are unsure of their next step and hoping to develop a better alignment between goals in all aspects of their lives. She has an aptitude for helping leaders ‘be heard’ and helping them become the one others want to follow.Julie is married with two children and loves walking, art galleries and time connecting with family and friends.Learn more about Coach Advancement by Tracy Sinclair. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn | YouTube