Be You. Truly Connect. Lead Yourself.
Julia Heuritsch is an Agile Coach & Trainer, specialising in transformational change grounded in embodiment, systems thinking and psychological ownership.
Her work centres on (self-)leadership: guiding people to hold themselves and others – creating the internal stability from which courage, clarity and real connection can emerge.
Julia is a certified SAFe SPC 6.0 and holds multiple Scrum.org certifications (PSM I, PSPO I, PAL I, PAL-EBM), as well as ICAgile credentials in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC) and Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF). She is also trained in Organization and Relationship Systems at Work (ORS@Work) and Leadership Embodiment. Academically, Julia holds a Master’s degree in astrophysics, having studied in Austria, Australia and the Netherlands, and earned her doctorate in the social sciences at Humboldt University in Berlin. Disappointed by the rigidities of academic culture, her Agile mindset led her to pivot: she pursued a PhD to explore how academia itself could become more Agile – more participative, adaptive and human-centred. It was during this journey that self-organisation captured her passion: a domain that bridges her scientific background with her fascination for human systems.
Today, Julia works at the intersection of embodiment, systems thinking and Agile coaching, helping teams and leaders move from compliance to genuine ownership. Her approach combines structural clarity with emotional intelligence, enabling people to reconnect with themselves, each other and their purpose.
Julia brings a reflective, evidence-based lens to AI. She sees AI as a tool that can make us more effective, empathetic and wise – provided we cultivate genuine AI literacy. In her view, the real challenge is ensuring that we use the tool consciously and intentionally – being shaped by AI in empowering ways, but never becoming enslaved by it. She integrates this perspective into her coaching and training, helping professionals navigate an AI-augmented world with clarity, curiosity and agency.
Beyond her coaching work, Julia is committed to continuous personal development, spending time in nature and writing for her own science blog.
