Julia Phelan, PhD, is the co-founder of To Eleven an innovative education consultancy firm focused on optimizing learning outcomes. Julia believes that effective learning strategies can help build a strong workplace learning culture and increase business performance. Realizing this potential begins with understanding the science behind HOW people learn, and using that to optimize training experiences and outcomes. Julia partners with organizations to create science-backed, outcome-driven solutions to help optimize talent acquisition, internal mobility, talent development, and retention.

Julia has a PhD in Education from UCLA. Prior to co-founding To Eleven, Julia spent over twenty years as a senior research and learning scientist at UCLA’s National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (CRESST) where she ran many large-scale national research projects. She is the author of many peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and regularly presents at conferences.

Julia is passionate about making learning science research and practice more accessible and applicable in the real-world. She frequently speaks, writes, and conducts training workshops on how to implement learning science-based strategies and techniques connected to how people learn. She is the recipient of the UCLA Life Science Department Certificate of Distinction in Teaching and is an advisor for the National Laboratory for Education Transformation.