Board & Strategic Advisor | AI & Agentic Transformation

Helping leaders navigate growth, monetization and AI-driven change.

I advise boards, founders and leadership teams at the intersection of AI, advertising and technology. I bring 20 years of experience at Microsoft, combined with hands-on work in AI and agentic systems, to help businesses understand what is changing, identify what matters commercially and decide where to act.

Julia Dubois, Board and Strategic Advisor

Julia Dubois

Senior commercial leadership across technology, advertising and international markets.

Experience shaped by

Microsoft
Mastercard
AppNexus
Xandr
NCR

AI, Growth & Transformation

Turning AI-driven change into commercial decisions that matter.

01 / Startups & Growth

AI & AdTech Startup Advisory

You have a promising product but need a clearer path to market, monetization and growth. I help founders sharpen their positioning and make the commercial decisions needed to scale.

  • Positioning, value proposition & go-to-market
  • Growth, monetization & pricing
  • Enterprise sales & partnerships
  • AI visibility & discoverability
  • Agentic advertising & emerging ecosystems

Founder Advisory · Growth & Monetization Reviews · Go-to-Market Support

02 / Business Transformation

AI & Agentic Transformation

AI is changing your industry, but where should you focus? I help leadership teams identify relevant opportunities, prioritize investments and define a practical strategic direction.

  • AI opportunity & use-case prioritization
  • Marketing, advertising & customer discovery
  • Agentic workflows & ecosystems
  • Go-to-market & monetization implications
  • Build / buy / partner & adoption strategy

Leadership Sessions · Assessment & Prioritization · Ongoing Advisory

03 / Leadership & Teams

AI Training for Leaders & Teams

Your teams are exploring AI, but need to turn curiosity into practical application. I help them understand the technology, identify relevant use cases and build confidence using it at work.

English | Español | Português

  • Generative AI fundamentals & prompting
  • Productivity & knowledge work
  • Practical AI workflows
  • AI agents & business implications
  • Opportunities, limitations & responsible adoption

Executive Sessions · Team Workshops · Customized Corporate Training

Navigating an AI, growth or monetization decision?

Let's talk about what is changing and where you should focus.

Schedule a Conversation

Board Advisory

Operator Experience.
Independent Judgment.

After a career leading sales, strategy, partnerships and transformation across technology and advertising, I bring that operator perspective into the boardroom. I help boards and CEOs ask sharper questions, evaluate strategic tradeoffs and make better decisions around growth, monetization, go-to-market and market change.

01

Growth Strategy

Evaluating where sustainable growth should come from and which strategic bets deserve investment.

02

Monetization

Assessing revenue models, pricing, partnerships and the quality of growth.

03

Go-to-Market

Connecting market opportunity, customer value and commercial execution.

04

AI & Market Transformation

Understanding how AI and agentic systems may change customers, competition and business models.

Selected Engagements

Advising companies at different stages of AI-driven change.

AI Startup Advisory

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“Julia brings a strong commercial perspective to the challenges of building and scaling an AI startup. She has helped us sharpen our positioning, think through our go-to-market strategy, and identify opportunities for growth.”

Vikas Malik, CEO & Founder, EvidentlyAEO

AI & Agentic Transformation

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“Julia combines deep AdTech experience with a strong understanding of AI and agentic advertising. Her strategic perspective has helped us challenge assumptions, identify opportunities, and navigate an evolving advertising landscape with greater clarity and confidence.”

Agustin Nolte, Co-Founder, Strike Media

AI Training

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“Julia has a great ability to make AI accessible and relevant to business teams. Her training helped us connect emerging AI capabilities with practical applications in our work. She brings real business experience to the conversation.”

Carolina Mandil, eGLOW CEO & Founder

Facing a similar transition? Let's talk.

AI & Agentic Credentials

Staying close to the technologies reshaping business.

2025

MIT xPRO

AI Strategy and Leadership Program: Thriving in the New World of AI

01 / Strategy & Leadership

2026

MIT Professional Education

Applied Agentic AI for Organizational Transformation

02 / Organizational Transformation

2026

AgenticAdvertising.org

AdCP Practitioner

Hands-on practitioner work building an AdCP seller agent using emerging agentic advertising infrastructure.

03 / Advertising Innovation

About Julia

Enterprise experience. Emerging technology.

Julia Dubois is a senior commercial and technology executive with two decades at Microsoft and experience across Mastercard, AppNexus/Xandr and NCR. Her career has focused on commercial leadership, growth, partnerships and business transformation across technology, advertising and international markets.

Today she advises boards, founders and leadership teams navigating growth, monetization and AI-driven change, combining senior operator experience with current hands-on work in AI and agentic systems.

Commercial Strategy + AI

Advertising + Agentic Transformation

U.S. + International Perspective

Strategic Judgment + Hands-On AI Fluency

“The value of an advisor isn't having all the answers. It's helping leadership teams ask better questions, recognize what is changing, and make better decisions.”

Julia Dubois

Board & Strategic Advisor

Contact

What are you navigating?

If you're evaluating how AI is changing your business, building an AI or AdTech company, navigating a growth or monetization decision, or looking for practical AI training for your team, let's start a conversation.

julia@julidubois.com
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AI & Strategic Advisory

For boards, CEOs and leadership teams navigating AI-driven change, growth and monetization.

02

Startup Advisory

For AI, AdTech and marketing technology founders building and scaling emerging businesses.

03

AI Training

Practical AI sessions and workshops for leadership teams, available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.