Julia Hobsbawm
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Julia Hobsbawm OBE (born 15 August 1964) is a British entrepreneur, writer and public speaker on Social Health, Simplicity in a Complex World, and the future of the workplace post-pandemic. Julia Hobsbawm is the Chair of The Workshift Commission (Demos).[1] and author of the paper The Nowhere Office.and co-presenter with Stefan Stern of the podcast The Nowhere Office. She is the author of Fully Connected: Social Health in an Age of Overload (Bloomsbury paperback 2018), and the recent report The APPlied Human at Work: The World of the Worker In the Digital Era (The European WorkForce Institute, 2019). Her latest book, The Simplicity Principle: Six Steps Towards Clarity in a Complex World which was published by Kogan Page in the UK and US in April 2020 and won two US awards for Best General Business Book of the Year and Best Self-Help Book of the Year in 2020. She is editor-at-large for Arianna Huffington's global wellbeing portal Thrive, and a columnist for Strategy+Business magazine. She broadcasts and writes regularly including for the OECD and Sky News. An entrepreneur who founded the knowledge networking company Editorial Intelligence in 2005, and the social mobility operation The Social Capital Network, she was appointed an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in 2015.[citation needed] She has held Honorary Visiting Professorships at the University of the Arts, London, and more recently at The Business School formerly known as Cass, including a role as Hon. Visiting Professor in Workplace Social Health until 2020. She has spoken internationally to audience ranging from the OECD and European Commission to the BBC, Zurich Financial Services, Shell, and the Global Drucker Forum.
Early life[]
She is the daughter of the historian Eric Hobsbawm and music teacher Marlene Schwarz,[2] and attended Camden School for Girls.
After leaving the Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminster) without qualifications in the early 1980s, she worked as a researcher in television,[3] before moving political fundraising for The Labour Party before the 1992 General Election. She had a long career in public relations before moving into networking and event organisation.
She is a patron of the Facial Surgery Research Foundation and the Zoe Sarojini Trust, a charity educating girls in South Africa and a founding trustee in the UK of OurBrainBank
She lists her hobbies in Who's Who as Walking and Conversation.
Companies[]
She runs Editorial Intelligence, which she launched in 2005 and Fully Connected Services Ltd, her private consulting and writing business.
Books[]
- The Simplicity Principle, Six Steps Towards Clarity in a Complex World, Kogan Page (2020)
- Fully Connected: Social Health in an Age of Overload, Bloomsbury (Paperback 2018)
- Fully Connected: Surviving and Thriving in an Age of Overload, Bloomsbury (Hardback 2017)
- The See-Saw: 100 Ideas for Work-Life Balance, Atlantic Books (2009)
- Where the Truth Lies: Trust and Morality in the Business of PR, Journalism and Communications, Atlantic Books (2006, second edition 2010)
References[]
- ^ Williams, Zoe (10 October 2014). "Julia Hobsbawm: 'I'm interested in social mobility, and I think there is a stuckness going on'". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
- ^ Franks, Lynne (9 February 2012). "Interview: Julia Hobsbawm". The Jewish Chronicle.
- ^ "My Life in Media". The Independent.
External links[]
- 1964 births
- Living people
- English Jewish writers
- English people of Polish-Jewish descent
- English women writers
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- People educated at Camden School for Girls