Julia Hobsbawm

Julia Hobsbawm, described as 'our foremost futurist of the workplace' (Barbara Kellerman, Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University) is an award-winning writer, broadcaster, keynote speaker and consultant about the past, present and future of work. After her acclaimed 2022 book The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future Nicholas Bloom, William D. Eberle Professor of Economics, Stanford University said, "Julia always seems to be three steps ahead". She was a...See more

Julia Hobsbawm, described as 'our foremost futurist of the workplace' (Barbara Kellerman, Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University) is an award-winning writer, broadcaster, keynote speaker and consultant about the past, present and future of work. After her acclaimed 2022 book The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future Nicholas Bloom, William D. Eberle Professor of Economics, Stanford University said, "Julia always seems to be three steps ahead". She was a founder of the US-led Workforce Institute, and during the pandemic was launch Chair of the inaugural UK Demos Workshift Commission. She co-hosts the popular podcast The Nowhere Office and regularly appears in media including Bloomberg, Fortune, the BBC, Forbes, and CNN. She regularly consults for and speaks to corporations, governments, non-profits and changemakers around the world. Working Assumptions is her latest book. Other books include The Simplicity Principle which won two awards for Best Business Book and Best General Self- Help book 2020 in the USA, and Fully Connected: Social Health in an Age of Overload which was shortlisted for Management Book of the Year in the UK. An acclaimed entrepreneur, Julia was awarded an OBE in the late Queen Elizabeth II's Birthday Honours List in 2015 for Services to Business. See less