Julia Fabris McBride | Senior Fellow

Julia Fabris McBride, PCC, is a senior fellow and faculty member with the Kansas Leadership Center and a nationally recognized leadership coach, teacher, and author. She is co-author of When Everyone Leads: How the Toughest Challenges Get Seen and Solved and Teaching Leadership: Case-in-Point, Case Teaching, and Coaching, and author of Your Leadership Edge: Teacher Companion.

Julia works with executives, educators, physicians, artists, and community practitioners to clarify purpose, build culture, and make progress on complex, adaptive challenges. Her teaching and coaching invite reflection, curiosity, and courageous experimentation—grounded in the belief that leadership is an activity available to anyone, anywhere.

Her teaching and coaching are shaped by an early career in the performing arts, including formal training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and groundbreaking collaboration with LGBTQ+ youth in Chicago theatre.

At KLC, Julia teaches in programs for leadership developers and serves as faculty chair for When Everyone Leads Facilitator Certification. She previously served as KLC’s interim president and CEO. An International Coach Federation–certified coach, she is also a member of the faculty of the Academy of Adaptive Leadership at the University of New South Wales Australian Graduate School of Management.

Julia has taught leadership and management at the University of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, the University of Massachusetts, and the James P. Shannon Leadership Institute. She holds leadership certificates from the University of Chicago’s Graham School and Harvard Kennedy School and is certified to facilitate the Myers-Briggs (MBTI) and Immunity to Change processes.

Julia lives in Matfield Green, Kansas, in the heart of the Flint Hills tallgrass prairie, where she and her husband, sculptor Bill McBride, own and operate Matfield Station – Art & Lodging.

Credentials: PCC

City: Matfield Green