Q&A with Julia Gregory-Royle, Senior Communications and Marketing Leader

Julia shares her advice on progressing into senior leadership, emphasising the importance of consistently delivering excellent work, staying curious and developing strong listening and people skills. She explains how understanding the wider business, industry and commercial drivers helps marketers move beyond execution to become strategic leaders. Julia also highlights the value of networking, embracing new challenges when career progression stalls, and building the confidence and experience needed to step into C-suite roles. About Julia Julia Gregory-Royle is a senior communications and marketing leader with more than 20 years' experience across global financial services, technology and highly regulated organisations. Most recently, Julia was SVP, Global Communications at Northern Trust, where she sat on the leadership teams of the Enterprise COO and CIO and led communications for two of the bank's largest transformation programmes. Her career spans senior in-house and agency-side roles, including six years as Head of Corporate Marketing & Communications, EMEA & APAC at Northern Trust, and has taken her across London, New York and Silicon Valley. She co-founded a FinTech communications agency earlier in her career, and speaks three languages.