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Julia Fourie

Life Coach and Mentor

Helping you channel your full potential

I joined Thawte in the late 1990’s and after selling to Verisign, I left with the founder, Mark Shuttleworth and a core team to help initiate diverse projects in the now HBD group. I supported in the set up of the Venture Capital arm, establishing it as one of the few VC companies in South Africa focused on funding early-stage businesses.

In 2006 I took on the role of CEO and launched HBD Fund2, a strategic shift from start-up to early-stage companies focus. Together with my team, we secured and helped grow HBD’s investments in amongst other Fundamo, CSense and OrderTalk, which became high profile exits to Fortune 500 entities.

Over the years I have gained experience in launching concepts such as the Big Idea Conferences aiming at stimulating entrepreneurship; a trustee of the Shuttleworth Foundation; a director of the HBD group; a director Bsquare Communications that drove the Hip2b2 brand; a non-executive director; involved in exits of various companies from profitable sales to third parties, to management buyouts and placing companies in Business Rescue to liquidation; and establishing a start-up in Portugal and Sao Tome & Principe.

My current focus areas include: heading up HBD in South Africa; non-executive directorships; coaching; mentoring; start-up support; business growth and sense checking.

Qualifications & Memberships

While at HBD in 2010, I started my coaching journey and over the next few years completed my coaching training, resulting in being awarded the Professional Coaching Certificate from the Centre for Coaching at UCT GSB. I have also been accredited with the ICF (International Coaching Federation) as an Associate Certified Coach and New Ventures West as a Certified Integral Coach.

Recently at HBD we sold Ordertalk to Uber Eats – you can read more about it here

Professional Coaching Course

Centre for Coaching, UCT, GSB.

Accredited Integral Coach

New Ventures West, USA

Btech in Information Technology

Tech SA

IOD Certified Director

IOD South Africa

Accredited Mediator

Conflict Dynamics and CEDR certified.

Integrative Enneagram Accredited Practitioner

Integrative 9 Enneagram Solutions.

Find Your Balance. Set Your Goals. Take A Challenge. Reward Yourself.

My sense of adventure and curiosity in life has led me to be involved in different walks of life – from running a venture capital company focusing on growing and selling start-ups to an integral coach to help support you to unlock your potential.

Connect with me if you want to grow personally or if you want to achieve bigger business goals, developing new insights, clarifying your thoughts or accelerating your growth. Collaborating with you would allow us to walk a path together that still has to be created much like a writer who has a story to tell and is eager to begin as he himself does not quite know how it will end until he gets there.

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