Julia Hobsbawm Keynote Speaker

Expert speaker and commentator on entrepreneurship, networking, women in business, work-life balance, and business productivity
World’s first Professor of Networking (at Cass Business School)
Founder, Editorial Intelligence

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Julia Hobsbawm's Biography

Julia Hobsbawm OBE is a leading commentator on modern connectedness and its discontents, the future of work, technology and digital distraction and how we cope in an Age of Overload.

Julia has been described by the digital and tech broadcaster and writer Andrew Keen as “The Marshall McLuhan of our Always-On age” and by the broadcaster and historian Sir Simon Schama as “there is no-one like Julia Hobsbawm. She is the wizard of connection”.

Julia founded the content and connection business Editorial Intelligence in 2005. She is Hon.Visiting Professor in Workplace Social Health at London’s CASS Business School, City, University of London; Editor-at-Large for Arianna Huffington’s well-being portal THRIVE Global; a columnist for Strategy + Business Magazine, and presenter of the podcast ‘The Human and Machine’. A member of the board of the European Workforce Institute, her book ‘Fully Connected: Social Health in an Age of Overload’ was shortlisted for both Business Book of the Year and Management Book of the Year. Her new book ‘The Simplicity Principle’ was published in April 2020.

Julia has presented two series for BBC Radio 4 and has given keynote speeches to audiences including the OECD, European Commission, as well as numerous private clients in corporate banking, think tanks, ideas festivals and international symposiums such as the Global Drucker Forum in Vienna and Full Circle in Brussels.

She was awarded the OBE for services to business in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List In 2015