Noreena Hertz
Bestselling Author, Speaker and Economist
Named by The Observer as “one of the world’s leading thinkers” and by Vogue as “one of the world’s most inspiring women”, economist Noreena Hertz is a bestselling author, board member and keynote speaker.
Main Topics:
The Lonely Century: How To Reconnect
Even before the pandemic, loneliness was fast becoming a defining characteristic of the 21st century, with more people than ever not just craving intimacy with friends and family, but feeling disconnected from politicians and government and also from their colleagues and employer. 40 percent of office workers globally feel lonely. One in five do not have a single friend at work.
This is not just a problem for individuals, it’s also exacting a significant business cost. The lonely are less productive, efficient and motivated than their non-lonely colleagues and more likely to quit.
Noreena Hertz, author of The Lonely Century:
Helps audiences understand the drivers that have led us to this situation and also exposes how severely loneliness is affecting the younger generation.
In a thought-provoking and inspiring keynote speech she shares her vision for combating loneliness and calls for a redesign of the workplace that holds community and collaboration at its heart.
Triumphing in the post Covid, post Global, High Inflation, Hybrid World
With dark clouds hovering over the economy, consumers starting to tighten their belts, and the battle for talent ever more fierce, it’s more essential than ever for business leaders to understand the new context they are operating in, how it’s likely to evolve, and the strategies they will need to triumph in it.
In her new thought-provoking and inspiring keynote speech leading global economist and bestselling author – Professor Noreena Hertz – helps her audience understand
How to Make Smart Decisions in Complex Times
Now more than ever making the right strategic decisions is crucial. But how to make smart decisions in a time as uncertain and complex as this? A time of political upheaval and economic downturn in which an ongoing global pandemic is testing us like never before, and people are feeling increasingly disconnected from each other.
Combining economic analysis with insights from psychology, neuroscience, sociology and history, as well as research from her latest book The Lonely Century Professor Noreena Hertz, in this fascinating speech helps C-Suite executives think strategically about how to navigate the next eighteen months with agility and innovation.
GENERATION K: How to manage, retain, and inspire your youngest cadre of employees and consumers
You may know all about millennials by now. But what about what comes next?
Based on her 5 years of cutting edge proprietary research on 15-25 year olds, Professor Noreena Hertz shares deep insights into who this generation are, what they care about, how they behave, what they want, and how they consume. Shaped not only by technology, but also the worst recession in decades – as well as a world of heightened existential threat – this generation is manifestly different to those that came before including the older millennials.
Whether you are an employer, marketer, or politician – if you want to future proof your organisation, it’s essential you get to grips with Generation K.
The Key Economic, Geopolitical Technological and Societal Forces That Will Shape Our Near Term Future
The Loneliness Economy: How Recent Events will shape consumer behaviour over the next three years
The Future of Work in the Post-Covid World
Lessons from History: Planning for the future, Drawing from the past
Professional Profile:
Her best-selling books, The Silent Takeover, The Debt Threat and Eyes Wide Open are published in more than twenty countries. Her latest book is the international bestseller The Lonely Century – A Call to Reconnect, which was chosen by The Daily Telegraph, Wired, and El Mundo, amongst other publications, as a Book of the Year.
As a global economist, whose work intersects the nexus of economics, technology, politics and society – and a pioneering and renowned thinker on ESG, the post-millennial generation and community building – Noreena also advises some of the largest organizations and most senior leaders in the world on strategy and transformation. .
She sits on the boards of Nasdaq-listed Warner Music Group and the HR Tech Company, Workhuman. She has served on Citigroup’s Politics and Economics Global Advisory Board, the Inclusive Capitalism Taskforce’s Advisory Group, and RWE’s Digital Transformation Board, and her thinking served as the inspiration for Bono’s Product ‘Red’.
As a visionary thinker, Noreena is also frequently sought after as a Keynote Speaker and has given keynote speeches at TED, The World Economic Forum in Davos and Google Zeitgeist as well as for leading global corporations, sharing platforms with such luminaries as President Bill Clinton, Professor Stephen Hawking and David Beckham amongst others. Her opinion pieces have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Financial Times, Die Zeit, El Pais, and The South China Morning Post.
Noreena also makes frequent television appearances around the world including on flagship television shows such as CBS’ This Morning, BBC’s Question Time, NHK’s Global Debate. She has created and hosted four television documentaries; hosted her own show on the US’ largest radio network Sirius XM, and served as the economics editor for the UK’s leading commercial television network, ITV.
Noreena has a PhD from Cambridge University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Having spent 10 years at the University of Cambridge, in 2014 she moved to University College London where she is an Honorary Professor at the Institute for Global Prosperity.
RECENT BOOK:
“The Lonely Century: Coming Together in a World that’s Pulling Apart”
It’s time to reconnect
Even before a global pandemic introduced us to terms like social distancing, loneliness was already becoming the defining condition of the twenty-first century.
But it’s also one we have the power to reverse.
Combining a decade of research with first-hand reporting, Noreena Hertz takes us from a ‘how to communicate in real life’ class for smartphone-addicted university students to bouncy castles at Belgian far-right gatherings, from paying for cuddles in the U.S. to nursing home residents knitting bonnets for their robot caregivers in Japan.
The Lonely Century explores how our increasing dependence on technology, radical changes to the workplace and decades of policies that have placed self-interest above the collective good are damaging our communities and making us more isolated than ever before.
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