Julie Fabsik-Swarts, MS, CFRE, CAP, CEAP 

Chief Executive Officer

Julie Fabsik-Swarts, MS, CFRE, CAP, CEAP is the CEO of the Employee Assistance Professionals Association (EAPA). EAPA supports thousands of professionals in Employee Assistance throughout the United States and in over 40 countries. She is a skilled and dynamic nonprofit, association, and sports leader with over 35 years of experience. Raised in New York City, Julie has led such prestigious organizations as the National Postdoctoral Association, the National Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association, and the national governing body of an Olympic sport. Additionally, she has worked for organizations such as The Pennsylvania State University, the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, The Seattle Organizing Committee of the Goodwill Games, the Purple Heart Foundation, UC Berkeley, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pennsylvania, and the American College.

Julie has extensive experience having served on numerous nonprofit Board of Directors including the Philadelphia Committee on City Policy, Women in Development, and the National Association of Women’s Gymnastics Judges. She is an accomplished author having written numerous articles for Advancing Philanthropy Magazine, Purple Heart Magazine, and the book Parenting a Gymnast.

Since coming on board at EAPA in 2021, Julie has led the successful efforts to increase membership, grow the certification, modernize the world Institute and EXPO and revamp policies and procedures to make EAPA as successful as possible.  She represented EAPA at the Tokyo premiere of the CEAP and was a speaker at the 2023 APEAR conference in Bangkok, Thailand.  Her work with the Board of Directors revitalizing the bylaws and starting a professional strategic plan has helped EAPA evolve into a successful association.

Julie earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology from San Diego State University and a Master of Science focusing on Sports Management from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE), a Chartered Advisor of Philanthropy (CAP) from the American College, and a certified nonprofit executive from LaSalle University.

On the personal side, Julie is a nationally rated Women’s Gymnastics Judge for over four decades for USA Gymnastics and the NCAA, a certified to official for collegiate tumbling and acrobatics (NCATA), and a certified judge for youth acrobatics and tumbling competitions. She is President of Blue Tail Consulting and has traveled to over 37 countries including Siberia Russia to teach, Australia for the 2000 Olympics and to Asia to scuba dive and to celebrate her 25th wedding anniversary. Her new book "Parenting a Gymnast" will be published in late, 2023.  A certified Master Scuba Dive, she lives with her husband and dive partner, Mike, and her rescued dogs live in the Norfolk/Virginia Beach area.