Julie Michelle Morris's Linkedin Analytics

If you’re reading this, you have influence. Everyone does. It’s just a matter of how adept you are at welding it to get what you need done. Stick around to learn from a thought leadership strategist for startups, executives, and orgs in AI, cybersecurity, national security. I’ve seen thought leadership win when marketing impact is dull in an AI-powered world and the customer journey is fragmented and self-driven. I’m obsessed with how ideas spread, how people earn trust, and how our brightest minds can serve at scale. Equally obsessed with sharing these ideas that I learn in client work and studying the leadership field with all interested in expanding their influence. In my work, I advise and create thought leadership toward revenue and influence, and to help clients create a more secure tomorrow. At my firm, Persona Media, now 15 years in, my team and I develop and execute visibility strategies, from idea and interview to live thought leadership content. We embed within executive and stakeholder ecosystems, partnering with your organization's comms, product, and policy teams to align with strategy behind what’s being built and align thought leadership to bring about those revenue and influence objectives. Every message we craft is grounded in trust, discretion, and a deep respect for the complexity and consequence of their work. A handful of examples of our work: Our client engagements often begin with board members in quiet conversations asking our help to make their C-suite comfortable and confident (palatable!) on camera. We work alongside crisis comms to adapt statements into something palatable the humans and social platforms. We take keynotes from our clients and turn them into TikToks, blogs, articles in major publications that your PR team can work with. Our thought leadership content becomes the best performing marketing content on your brand channels. I am based in Dallas with my brilliant communications strategist and YouTuber husband and two daughters. Here, there’s always a notebook open, books consumed, nerding out over 'the future of,' sci-fi, and tech, cooking avoidance, and the outdoors. I teach weekly, speak often, and host the How to Thought Leadership podcast. My first book, coming in 2026, is a reinvention field guide to align on what you want, what the market wants from you, and how to MVP that brand in AI-first world.