From Idea to MVP: A gener8tor Skills Conversation with Julie Gullickson
AI can help turn a big idea into something real, fast.
In the latest episode of our gener8tor Skills Impact Series, Anne Nadel sat down with Julie Gullickson, a longtime healthcare leader turned nonprofit founder. After 30 years in corporate healthcare, Julie launched Kindness Bank in Dane County to improve community health and well-being through the impact of kindness.Julie joined our AI for Leaders program after spotting it online and realizing she needed the right structure (and support) to bring a long-held vision into focus.
Her biggest win: creating a minimum viable product for a concept she’s been developing for years an “Amazon for basic human needs”-style ecosystem that helps people find resources in a more user-specific way, with the potential to track outcomes over time.A few themes from the conversation:
Skills + coaching make big ideas feel doable (even when you’re starting from scratch).
The use case project can turn “conceptual” into concrete.
Confidence grows fast when you’re supported and applying what you learn in real time.
You don’t have to be a technical expert, you just need a starting point and momentum.
Julie’s mindset says it all: if you feel pulled toward learning something new, trust that instinct it’s probably the next right step.
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