ABOUT

Julia Hobsbawm has transformed the conversation about modern networking away from the idea of 'working a room' to one which is more about how we live and work today on networks. She has defined Social Health as the antidote to the Age of Overload for businesses, government, and the individual. The ideas in her new book about Social Health, (italic) Fully Connected has resulted in over 100 talks, interviews, presentations, extracts and reviews internationally in the four months since publication.

Julia Hobsbawm is Honorary Visiting Professor at London's Cass Business School and at England's University of Suffolk.

In 2005 she founded the successful 'knowledge networking' business www.editorialintelligence.com and the ideas conference www.namesnotnumbers.com and the UK Comment Awards (www.commentawards.com). In 2016 she launched www.networkingnations.eu as a response to Brexit.

Today Julia regularly consults, writes, teaches, and gives speeches and workshops on Social Health including its core components: How to manage Knowledge, Networks and Time.

In addition to her books, articles and speeches, Julia is a broadcaster. She has written and presented two series for BBC Radio 4 and regularly appears on television and radio networks and podcasts.

Julia was awarded an OBE for Services to Business in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in June 2015. A trustee of London's Jewish Museum, She is a Patron of The Facial Surgery Research Foundation and the Zoe Trust, and a Vice President of the Hay Festival.

SPEAKING, KEYNOTES, SPEECHES, WORKSHOPS

Julia Hobsbawm speaks to corporate and public sector audiences alike about her key topics of Social Health, managing Knowledge, Networks and Time in the Age of Overload, Appearances include: Accenture; Barclays; EY; Foreign & Commonwealth Office; IKEA; INFORMA; Online Educa, Berlin; Speakers for Schools; SONY; WPP's Stream; WOW Festival; Geovation UK; Shell UK, Trendwatching Live, Management Today Live, Smart Business Show Dublin, CASE Europe Annual Conference, Good Day at Work Conference, 'The Next Billion' Quartz.com conference; Hay Festival; Bath Festival; Edinburgh International Festival; Full Circle in Brussels and The Drucker Forum in Vienna. She is a regular speaker for Women Ahead / Moving Ahead and recent audiences for them include 30% Club and the City's Institute of Actuaries.

Download: Calendar of Talks

Speaking enquiries: nathalie@thefullyconnected.com

PREVIOUS EVENTS:

Hay Festival, June 2017

Julia gave a talk on the answer to the Age of Overload.

TedX, April 2017

Julia gave a TedX talk on Social health: Surviving & thriving in an age of overload.

European Forum Alpbqch, August 2016

Julia spoke at European Forum Alpbqch in August 2016 with, left to right:- Charles Handy, Richard Straub of The Peter Drucker Society and writer Andrew Keen.

Woman's Hour Power List

Julia was a judge of the BBC's Woman's Hour Power List in 2016

Speaking enquiries: nathalie@thefullyconnected.com

WRITING

ARTICLES

• How to network and stay sane, April 2017
• What is Social Health? World Economic Forum, June 2015
• The Independent, March 2015
• HR Magazine, December 2014
• 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
• "is networking just who you know?"
• Why networking gives you the edge
• “How to Network”
• Does everybody need to schmooze to get on?

INTERVIEWS

• Coffee with Julia at the Coffee Cup, September 2016
• The power of connection, Odgers Berndtson, February 2015
• CIPD, January 2015
• 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
• Interview, Evening Standard
• Interview, International Herald Tribune

CONSULTING

The world of knowledge networking and Social Health and its impact on productivity, engagement and social mobility is just beginning to be understood. Professor Julia Hobsbawm OBE is at the forefront of the ideas and behaviour-based practices arising out of contemporary research in neuroscience, behavioural economics, management and leadership theory and social network analysis. She undertakes a limited amount of corporate and organisational consulting to develop stronger network systems, knowledge management flows and improved workplace practices around teams. For further information: julia@thefullyconnected.com

TEACHING

Julia Hobsbawm teaches courses and classes she has written and designed for audiences ranging from Executive MBAs to corporate students ranging from entry-level graduates to senior managers and Top Talent teams. She teaches through a number of academic institutions and on a directly commissioned basis by corporate clients.

Julia's programme 'Fully Connected' is a bespoke range of modules, practical programmes and can be given in tailored multimedia formats: Webinars, downloadable PDFs, or live classroom teaching and follow-up coaching all using her ideas and formats which integrate the latest research and thinking in neuroscience, behavioural economics, management, leadership, and social network analysis. Clients range from Cass Business School to Warwick Executive Leadership Programme. For further information: julia@thefullyconnected.com

IN THE MEDIA

• 'Six Degrees of Connection' for BBC Radio 4
• 5 part BBC Radio 4 series 'Networking Nation' on iPlayer here
• Virgin Radio extended interview on networking

CONTACT

Registered address: 41 Cheverton Road London N19 3BA

Twitter: @juliahobsbawm
LinkedIn: juliahobsbawm
Email: julia@thefullyconnected.com
Phone: 07967 813 975