Julia Hobsbawm is a businesswoman who founded the 'knowledge networking' business www.editorialintelligence.com and who writes, teaches, and gives speeches on a number of topics including entrepreneurship, networking, women in business, worklife balance, and business productivity. She is the world's first professor of Networking, having been made Honorary Visiting Professor by London's Cass Business School and the author of several books and articles covering communication, business, the media and the future of the workplace. She has written and presented the 5 part BBC Radio 4 series "Networking Nation".
'Catalyst for phenomenal thinking'
First Women Awards
'Networking Guru'
International Herald Tribune
Speaking & Events 2014/15
RECENT & FORTHCOMING SPEECHES
| September: | Kit Kat Club |
| October: | Inspirational Women |
| November: | Good Day at Work EY Graduate Day |
| December: | Online Education Forum, Berlin |
Julia Hobsbawm speaks regularly to corporate and other event audiences as well as being a speaker for Speakers4Schools. Recent speeches include INFORMA; Hay Festival for Literature; Maki Conference hosted by Cass Business School; as well as The London Library; UBS; Verizon, IKEA’s Global Women’s Network launch in Sweden, the Institute of Directors IOD Women as Leaders conference and the Sunday Times/Wellington College Festival of Education.
Enquiries: julia@juliahobsbawm.com
Workshops & Coaching
Confidence and Skill in Networking
Julia personally runs some of the Editorial Intelligence 'Connecting for Success' learning & development networking programmes and mentors individual women and men identified as High Potentials or in Leadership Teams.
Email: julia@editorialintelligence.com
Top Time Management for better Work-Life Balance
Time is of the essence. Learn how to manage it better, prioritise, and have technology-free-time to be more productive in these small group workshops.
Email: julia@juliahobsbawm.com
Most Recent Media
- We are the city interview, September 2014
- London Evening Standard interview, July 2014
- Financial Times interview, May 2014
- Monocle Radio interview, May 2014 (15 mins in)
- Sky News '100 Most Connected'
Biography - From Telex to Twitter
Julia founded and runs the knowledge networking business Editorial Intelligence, which has pioneered a new way of looking at networking in the social network era.
In 2011 she was made Honorary Visiting Professor in Networking - a world first - at Cass Business School London, and in 2012 became Honorary Visiting Professor in Business networking at UCS Suffolk. Since then has lectured and presented her views around the world to business audiences.
She spent two year's as the only UK media CEO on the World Economic Forum's "brainstorm" Global Agenda Council, looking at the future of Informed Societies, and in 2012 was made 'Media Woman of the Year' by the First Women Awards. In 2014 the Foreign & Commonwealth Office invited her to join its Diplomatic Excellence Panel.
In a career which started on a Telex machine and currently include daily updates on Twitter, Julia has been active in communications in the UK and globally during some of the most seismic changes in technology - the arrival of the internet, of 24/7 broadcasting, and of the mobile world.
Twitter: @juliahobsbawm
LinkedIn: juliahobsbawm
Blog: juliahobsbawm.wordpress.com
Julia's blog and books
Fully Connected:
a look ahead to working and networking in 2020
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The See-Saw
Available on Kindle
TV & Radio Footage
- BBC 1 Andrew Marr Show - 2 Nov 2014
- Hay Festival /Tata “Hay Levels” on Social Proof -
Nov 2014 - Woman's Hour - 18 Sept 2014
- Most Connected - Sky News Feb 2014
- Nespresso Mattino Moments:
Julia Hobsbawm on Business - Woman's Hour - 12 Feb 2013
- BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (15 minutes in)
- SKY News
- BBC Radio 4 Today Programme
- BBC Radio 4 Any Questions
- 5X15 on The Curious Corporation
- International Content Summit
Writing in the Media
NETWORKS & NETWORKING
- Radio Times, October 2014
- The Telegraph, October 2014
- EY Future of Networking, October 2014
- Wired Magazine, on open-sourced elitism
- Harpers Bazaar, on "names not numbers'
- CNN.com, on "Names Not Numbers"
- Financial Times, business interview
- Hays Journal, on networkng and productivity
- Interview, Evening Standard
- Interview, International Herald Tribune
- "is networking just who you know?"
- Why networking gives you the edge
- “How to Network”
- Does everybody need to schmooze to get on?
PERSONAL & INTERVIEWS
- Shirley Conran, October 2014
- The Guardian, October 2014
- On turning 50
- FT Magazine - on my late father, Eric Hobsbawm
- London Evening Standard - Interview
- Jewish Chronicle - Interview
- The Guardian - "My Family Values"
- The House I Grew Up In