Julia Pimsleur is an author and entrepreneur. Pimsleur is the author of the best-selling book Million Dollar Women: The Essential Guide for Female Entrepreneurs Who Want to Go Big. She is the Founder and “Chief Empowerista” of Million Dollar Women, which hosts a yearly summit in NYC, an online business program called Million Dollar Women Masterclass and a sales program The Sales CURE. She is the founder and CEO of the Little Pim language education system, and is a former documentary filmmaker. She is the daughter of Paul Pimsleur, who was a scholar of applied linguistics.
Biography
Pimsleur is the daughter of Paul Pimsleur, the creator of the Pimsleur Language Aptitude Battery and the Pimsleur Method. She is also the author of Million Dollar Women: The Essential Guide for Female Entrepreneurs Who Want to Go Big and the founder of the Million Dollar Women Academy to help more women get to $1M in revenues. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University, Master of Fine Arts degree from the FrenchNational Film School in Paris, and attended Harvard Business School’s Executive Education Program. Prior to founding Little Pim, Pimsleur was the co-founder and CEO of a film production company which produced independent documentaries sold to HBO, Cinemax Reellife and PBS. She produced several films in association with the Arts Engine film organization and was featured on This American Life. Her films Nuyorican Dream and Innocent Until Proven Guilty were shown on Cinemax Reellife and HBO and at festivals around the world. Her film Boola Boola... Yale Goes Coed was awarded the Sudler Award for the Arts at Yale University. She used to be a fundraiser for human rights organizations, including Echoing Green, CPJ and Witness. She serves on the Advisory Board of Global Language Project, a nonprofit organization which brings free foreign language instruction to children in disadvantaged public schools, and as Accelerator Chair of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization. Pimsleur speaks French, Italian, some Spanish and lives in New York City with her two sons.
Career
Pimsleur is the Founder of Little Pim, a system for introducing young children to a second language using a proprietary strategy branded as the "Entertainment Immersion Method." The company has raised $5.9 million in Angel and Venture funding and $20 million in philanthropic dollars. Pimsleur coaches women business owners on entrepreneurship and sales through her online programs, Million Dollar Women Masterclass, and Sales CURE. She has over 100 blogs on scaling up on her site at www.juliapimsleur.com and her blog on Forbes.com.
