#287: Julie Hansen, CEO, Babbel – Don’t fear change

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of How Leaders Lead with David Novak. Today we have Julie Hansen on the show. Julie is the CEO of Babbel in the US and the chief revenue officer for the global organization. Babbel is one of the world's leading language learning platforms, helping millions of people learn new languages all across the world. Before Babbel, Julie also drove significant change in momentum for big brands like Penguin, Golf.com, and Business Insider.

And in this episode, you're gonna understand what really drives Julie's success. Enjoy this conversation between David and Julie, and I will see you at the very end of the episode for the debrief. Now, I gotta ask you, if I dropped you into a country tomorrow, where you didn't speak the language, what would be your strategy in the first 24 hours? Wow.

Definitely start using Babel if we teach that language. Use a little AI translation because that is pretty handy these days. and do a whole lot of listening. What would be the what would be the toughest country to go in and do that that where you actually uh offer the language? Where we offer the language, um, probably like Turkey, um, because Turkish is pretty different from any language I speak.

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