Julia Stiglitz

Julia is passionate about building and supporting mission-driven organizations and teams as the Chief Education and Workforce Officer at Handshake. Julia was previously the CEO and Co-Founder of Uplimit, an AI-native learning platform that helps companies create, manage, and deliver high-impact programs—faster, more efficiently and with proven results. Before Uplimit, she was one of the first leadership hires at Coursera, joining the company one month after the company launched as one of the first ten full time employees. She helped the company grow to over 40 million learners, and from pre-business model to over $100M in revenue. Her most recent role at Coursera was Vice President of Enterprise, where she found and led Coursera's enterprise business growing it from concept to over 1400 companies and organizations, including over 60 Fortune 500 companies, and with on the ground operations in the US, Europe and India. Her team also pioneered Coursera’s Industry Content Partnerships (including Google, IBM and Cisco), and started the Coursera for Refugee program, which to date has reached over ten thousand refugees. In Coursera's earlier years, she led their consumer international growth and monetization effort, including launching Specializations, the product that has driven the majority of the company’s revenue.