Her Story
About Julie
Julie Bachand serves as Director of Operations at Kinetic Global. In this role, she manages the Panic Button Solutions division, which equips hotel staff including security teams, valets, and restaurant and bar personnel with devices that allow them to summon help from any location within a property via a mesh network of beacons. The company also maintains a risk intelligence platform that aggregates data from government sources, news, and 911 dispatches to alert users to potential threats around business locations. Bachand earned a bachelor's degree in communications from Saginaw Valley and later completed an MBA in Business Administration at Walsh College. Her earlier career included work as a communications specialist editing health plan documents for a company under the Blue Cross umbrella, years in sales, and community service positions with Macomb County supporting Head Start, Meals on Wheels, and the Homeless Coalition.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Julie
01What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I would tell them to ignore the title. Focus on the work. Learn how to communicate with every different type of personality that you can. A lot of times, people make judgments when they're young. And they're working with other people, when what they really should try to do is understand why they work the way they do, or why they think the way they do. And find a different avenue to working with them, a better way to work with them.
02What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
There's always a challenge. A lot of times, you can plan as much as you want to, but when you go to have the installer install in a hotel, every hotel is unique and different. Trying to make sure that you have enough coverage in each hotel, that every space is covered. And that no matter where you hit that panic button, it's gonna work. So it's a lot of planning, a lot of looking over the different site plans, making sure that everything gets there, making sure that everything's done in the amount of time that you planned for. A lot of moving parts.
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