Dr Julie Pham
The Power of Curiosity
Dr Julie Pham was part of the inaugural cohort of Gates Cambridge Scholars, arriving in 2001 to study for a PhD in Historical Studies. The Gates Trust was founded with an endowment of $210mn from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000. Since then, over 2,000 scholars from 117 countries have benefitted from the scheme.
In 2001, the Gates Foundation felt like a start-up — we were building a new community and defining what it meant to be a Gates Scholar. Some of my best learning at Cambridge came from fellow Scholars.
Dr Julie Pham
Position
Dr Julie Pham is the founder and CEO of CuriosityBased, a consultancy that helps organisations build trust and collaboration through curiosity. She sees curiosity as a skill to be developed: “Curiosity is hard because we all have expectations but exploring them helps us learn about ourselves and others.”
An academic turned entrepreneur, Pham developed her curiosity framework while leading teams in technology and media. Her bestselling book,7 Forms of Respect: A Guide to Transforming Your Communication and Relationships at Work, encourages people to get curious about how they define respect.
Travelling from Seattle to Cambridge was her first international flight since arriving in the US from Vietnam as a baby.
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