Relationships are learnable.
For more than 20 years, we have seen that the skills behind better relationships can be learnt, practised and embedded into everyday behaviour.
With the right tools and opportunities to apply them, people can become more confident, intentional and capable in how they manage relationships.
RelationalX was created to make those skills accessible to more people.
It brings together decades of specialist experience, practical frameworks and proven learning into one clear pathway:
Connect. Strengthen. Activate.
About
More than networking
Relational Excellence goes well beyond knowing how to network.
It is the ability to connect meaningfully, strengthen important relationships and strategically activate the wider relationship ecosystem around you.
That includes confidence, presence, emotional intelligence, communication, listening, follow up, relationship management, strategic networking, relationship mapping, introductions, collaboration and opportunity creation.
That is why RelationalX is built around three progressive learning pathways: Connect. Strengthen. Activate.
Relationships are learnable
Some people appear naturally confident with relationships. Others develop their capability through experience.
Our experience has shown us that the behaviours behind effective relationships can be named, learnt, practised and improved.
RelationalX combines practical psychology, research and proven relationship strategies with action based learning designed to turn knowledge into everyday capability.
This reflects the established Relatus approach of combining psychology and science with practical strategies and learning transfer.
Who's behind RelationalX
RelationalX comes from the team behind Relatus, specialists in professional relationship capability since 2005.
Through Relatus, Julia and her team work with organisations to develop relationship capability through facilitated programs, advisory work and keynotes. For more than two decades, Relatus has helped professionals and organisations develop the human, social and emotional skills behind stronger relationships, from foundational networking skills to complex relationship ecosystems.
RelationalX makes that expertise accessible through practical online learning you can learn, apply and embed wherever you are.
Relatus develops capability within organisations. RelationalX puts that capability in your hands.
Tried, tested, proven
Why RelationalX
Two decades devoted to relationships.
About our Founder/ Program Curator
Julia Palmer is a Relational Strategist, three time author and CEO of Relatus who has spent more than 20 years specialising in professional relationships.
Her work has spanned Sydney, London, Singapore and Stockholm and moves beyond traditional networking to help people develop meaningful relationships and strategically valuable relationship ecosystems.
Julia is qualified in Emotional Intelligence, NLP, performance consulting and adult learning, bringing together research, practical psychology and more than two decades of real world experience.
Award Winning Capability Development
Through the Business Networking Academy and Relatus, Julia Palmer is a multi award winning facilitator whose programs have been recognised for skills transfer and capability development.
Her relationship programs have been delivered across industries and career stages, from graduates, academics and technical professionals through to business development teams, senior leaders and executives.
RelationalX brings that specialist capability directly to the individual learner.
From TEDx to the Real World
Julia Palmer presented Face to Face Revolution at TEDx Darling Harbour, where it was voted best talk of the day by the audience.
She has contributed as a networking expert for Kochie's Business Builders on Channel 7 and guest lectured at universities including UTS, UNSW, the University of Newcastle and MGSM.
Her work has one consistent focus: helping people become more capable and intentional in how they create and manage relationships.
Built on research. Refined through experience.
RelationalX combines established research into human behaviour, emotional intelligence, social networks and relationship development with more than 20 years of practical application.
Our frameworks have been shaped by working with real people facing real relationship challenges across industries, roles and career stages.
That means you will understand the why, learn the how and, most importantly, practise the do.
We believe
Relationships shape what happens next.