JULIE OCKERBY
DIRECTOR - CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS & STRATEGY
BN BBus BA
Julie is a former registered nurse and boutique hotel leader who has built a career at the intersection of care, design, and hospitality. With more than 20 years’ experience, she has delivered award-winning projects across aged care, retirement living, luxury residential, and boutique hotels.
Recognised as one of the early innovators in redefining aged care and retirement living design, Julie brings a unique perspective that blends clinical understanding with hotel-inspired sophistication. Her human-centred approach focuses on creating environments that are elegant and functional, emotionally resonant and commercially sound. Julie’s boutique hotel expertise adds a distinctive edge to her work, infusing care and retirement settings with the warmth, style, and guest experience that define world-class hospitality. Equally, her insight into health and wellbeing ensures that boutique hotels and residential spaces are designed to enrich lives in meaningful and lasting ways.
Through her leadership and vision, Julie continues to push the boundaries of design, setting new benchmarks across multiple sectors while remaining true to her philosophy: design that puts people first.
KEY PROJECTS
- Catholic Healthcare McQuoin Park, Waitara
- Catholic Healthcare Mackillop House, Norwest
- Huang Ying Jung Nursing Home, Gordon by ANHF
- Estia Health, Blakehurst
- Estia Health, Sunshine Coast
- Opal Healthcare Meadowbank Grove Care Community
- Southern Cross Care, Grafton
- Estia Health Plenty
- Estia Health Terrigal
- Uniting Care Gerringong
- Bolton Clarke Greenwood Normanhurst
- Bolton Clarke Pemulwuy
- SummitCare