Julia Hobsbawm OBE (born 15 August 1964) is a British writer and public speaker.

Early life

She is the daughter of historian

Eric Hobsbawm Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm (; 9 June 1917 – 1 October 2012) was a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism and nationalism. A life-long Marxist, his socio-political convictions influenced the character of his work. H ...

and music teacher Marlene Schwarz, and attended

Camden School for Girls The Camden School for Girls (CSG) is a comprehensive secondary school for girls, with a co-educational sixth form, in the London Borough of Camden in north London. It has about one thousand students of ages eleven to eighteen, and specialist- ...

. After leaving the Polytechnic of Central London (now the

University of Westminster , mottoeng = The Lord is our Strength , type = Public , established = 1838: Royal Polytechnic Institution 1891: Polytechnic-Regent Street 1970: Polytechnic of Central London 1992: University of Westminster , endowment = £5.1 million ...

) without qualifications in the early 1980s, she worked as a researcher in television, before moving to political fundraising for the Labour Party before the 1992 General Election.

Career

She has held Honorary Visiting Professorships at the University of the Arts, London, and more recently at Bayes Business School including a role as Hon. Visiting Professor in Workplace Social Health until 2020. Since September 2022 she writes the "Working Assumptions" column for Bloomberg News' section on work, Workshift, having formerly been an editor-at-large for wellbeing portal Thrive, and a columnist for ''

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'' magazine. She began hosting The Nowhere Office podcast with Stefan Stern in March 2021. Hobsbawm was appointed an OBE in the

Queen's Birthday Honours The Birthday Honours, in some Commonwealth realms, mark the reigning British monarch's official birthday by granting various individuals appointment into national or dynastic orders or the award of decorations and medals. The honours are present ...

list in 2015 for services to business. She is a patron of the Facial Surgery Research Foundation and the Zoe Sarojini Trust, a charity educating girls in South Africa and was a founding trustee in the UK of OurBrainBank.

Books

* ''The Nowhere Office, Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future'', Basic Books/John Murray (UK) and Public Affairs (US) (2022) * ''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 (2009) * ''Where the Truth Lies: Trust and Morality in the Business of PR, Journalism and Communications'', Atlantic Books (2006)

References

http://juliahobsbawm.com/

External links

www.juliahobsbawm.com

Julia Hobsbawm
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