Julia Hobsbawm


Julia Hobsbawm OBE 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, and the recent report The APPlied Human at Work: The World of the Worker In the Digital Era. 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, 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, and attended Camden School for Girls.
After leaving the Polytechnic of Central London without qualifications in the early 1980s, she worked as a researcher in television, 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.

Companies

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

Books