Hi, I’m Julia Reich, CEO—Chief Easel Officer at Stone Soup Creative—and visual practitioner. Which means I’m a graphic recorder, visual designer, and brand strategist.


Professional Highlights
- MG RUSH Certified Structured Professional Facilitator (CSPF) and endorsed as a graphic recorder
- Interviewed by Gerry Dick on Inside Indiana Business
- Featured on the DRNK CLTR podcast, about Indianapolis leaders
Highlighted as a visual note-taker in the Indianapolis Business Journal’s 2018 Innovation Issue
- Earned the designation Brand Academy Certified Branding Expert (2015) from the Brand Academy
- Participated in NY Designs, a unique design business incubator based in LIC, Queens
- Co-founded SPARK, a group of independent graphic design business owners who meet monthly in NYC to enlighten each other on the business and creative issues that are relevant to design studios
Won the 2009 Small Business Award from the Cayuga County NY Chamber of Commerce
- Featured in several design books including The Big Book of Green Design, 1000 More Greetings, Best of Business Card Design, and Recycling & Redesigning Logos
- Named a “trailblazer whose career embraces the common good” by Catalysta.net (Profiles of Trailblazers who Innovate with Community in Mind: A Marketing Primer for Non-Profit Orgs)
- Achieved Advanced Communicator Gold in Toastmasters
- Former environmental educator
- Trained as a mountain biking coach with the Bike Instructor Certification Program
Earned degrees from Pratt Institute in New York City and Hampshire College in Amherst, MA
- Is an Enneagram 7!
When I’m not working, I’m:
- Mountain biking
- Spending QT with my rescued bulldogs, Violet (@violetthewigglepig on insta) and Yarby
- Cuddling 8 cats
- Adventuring with a Casita travel trailer
- ‘Gramming @stonesoupcreate

The Stone Soup Story
Have you heard the Stone Soup fable? Told in many versions, it’s a story of creativity, ingenuity and teamwork creating something from nothing.
Hungry travelers arrive in a village. Food is scarce, and the villagers are unwilling to share what they have. The ingenious travelers begin a pot of soup by placing a ‘magic stone’ in boiling water. Curious villagers stop by, each sharing an ingredient to add to this stone soup. Ultimately, a delicious, nourishing pot of soup feeds everyone.
The Stone Soup Creative Story
The sum is greater than the parts
Individual items combine to make something bigger.
Like soup, creative projects consist of many talents & disciplines
Strategy often combines with visual design and content creation to support a goal.
Like the travelers in the story
Stone Soup uses creativity and ingenuity to ensure a deliciously successful project.
Collaboration & cooperation
Together, we produce a tasty result!
A little carrot makes a big difference
Even small budgets can be stirred into something wonderful.
Everyone eats the soup
Transform a community and everyone benefits.
Fire heats the stone which makes the soup
A creative spark fuels my professional passion.

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What creativity can we stir up together?
Let’s chat about your next meeting, event, session or project.
