Julia Hobsbawm Consulting Ltd

Julia Hobsbawm is a businesswoman who is also a commentator, speaker and coach on communications, entrepreneurship and work life balance. She founded the work life balance workshops and distance learning forum www.worklifeseesaw.com as a result of the success of her book The See Saw: 100 Ideas for Work Life Balance.

Julia's first communication was on a Tellex machine and now, over twenty five years later, her preferred mode of communication is Twitter (follower her at @juliahobsbawm). She is the only UK media CEO on the World Economic Forum's "brainstorm" Global Agenda Council, looking at the future of Informed Societies, a member of the Advisory Board of Warwick Business School, and a co-founder of the social enterprise www.talenttowork.com.

She is the founder of the media networking business Editorial Intelligence (www.editorialintelligence.com) whose events include the acclaimed annual global symposium Names Not Numbers (www.namesnotnumbers.com) and the annual UK Comment Awards (www.commentawards.com). In December 2011 Julia was made the first Honorary Visting Professor in networking at the Cass Business School so that she can bring her knowledge of the imprtance of networking "as the hardest of soft skills" to the next generation of business leaders and entrepreneurs.

having worked for over a decade in public relations, founding the first "integrity PR" firm and founding the first degreee course in the subject and made London's first Visting Professor in Public Relations by the London College of Communication, University of the Arts, Julia Hobsbawm co-authored Penguin’s Cosmopolitan Guide to Working in PR & Advertising in 1996, and edited the highly praised collection of essays on PR and Journalism entitled ‘Where the Truth Lies: Trust & Morality in PR and Journalism, published by Atlantic Books. In 2008 she co-wrote The Power of the Commentariat with John Lloyd, published by Editorial Intelligence in association with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

Julia Hobsbawm has lectured, broadcast and published widely for amongst others, BBC, Sky, The Times, Spectator, Comment is Free, University of Stirling, Columbia School of Journalism, and Oxford University (Reuters Institute).

Julia's next book is about the Curious Corporation and the value of face to face networking in a mobile and social media era.

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