Julia Hobsbawm

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 human in a machine workplace. 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, was published by Kogan Page in the UK and US in April 2020. Hobsbawm is Honorary Visiting Professor in Workplace Social Health at Cass Business School, and the Chair of The Workshift Commission (Demos). [1] editor-at-large for Arianna Huffington's global wellbeing portal Thrive, and a columnist for Strategy+Business magazine. An entrepreneur who founded the knowledge networking company Editorial Intelligence in 2005, she was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in 2015.

Early life

She is the daughter of the Marxist 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 into PR.

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.[4]

Companies

She founded Julia Hobsbawm Associates in 1992, subsequently Hobsbawm Macaulay Communications,[5] in collaboration with Sarah Brown (née Macaulay). She now runs Editorial Intelligence, which she launched in 2005.

Books
  • The Simplicity Principle, Six Steps Towards Clarity in a Complex World, Kogan Page (2020)
  • Fully Connected: Surviving and Thriving in an Age of Overload, Bloomsbury (2017)
  • The See-Saw: 100 Ideas for Work-Life Balance, Atlantic Books (2013)
  • Where the Truth Lies: Trust and Morality in the Business of PR, Journalism and Communications, Atlantic Books (2010)

References
  1. 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.
  2. Franks, Lynne (9 February 2012). "Interview: Julia Hobsbawm". The Jewish Chronicle.
  3. "My Life in Media". The Independent.
  4. "London's networking queen: Julia Hobsbawm". Evening Standard. 9 January 2012.
  5. Jardine, Cassandra (5 January 2009). "Julia Hobsbawm: How a life-threatening illness made me rethink my work-life balance". The Telegraph.
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