Julian Treasure.
Julian Treasure is the founder of The Sound Agency and known as The Listening Alchemist.
As the world's foremost expert in transforming how people connect and listen, Julian tackles broken communication that drives workplace inefficiency, team disconnection, and misunderstanding. Through his proven approach to reskilling individuals, teams, and organisations in conscious listening and powerful speaking, he delivers measurable improvements in productivity, engagement, and collaboration.
A recognised TED thought leader, Julian's TED Talks have been viewed more than 160 million times, with his talk How to Speak So That People Want to Listen becoming the sixth most-viewed TED Talk of all time with over 45 million views. He is the author of three acclaimed books: Sound Affects (2025), How to be Heard (2017), and Sound Business (2014), and regularly contributes to a range of publications and leading podcasts, including Diary of a CEO.
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In our increasingly noisy and chaotic world, individuals, businesses, and organisations are constantly looking for ways to stand out from the crowd and thrive. An often-forgotten tool in achieving these goals, is effective communication. Drawing on over 20 years’ experience focussed on listening and speaking, Julian explores the challenges caused by miscommunication, disengagement, and poor listening by leaders at all levels. He demonstrates how enhanced engagement and communication deliver transformational benefits to individuals and companies of all sizes, unlocking exceptional performance across the organisation.
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Most businesses don’t realise it, but sound has a profound impact on performance and profit. The cost to the economy of miscommunication and disengagement is currently $10 trillion annually. Drawing on extensive research into how sound can impact physiology, psychology, cognition and behaviour, Julian asks whether your workplace is optimised for success. He explores how intelligent sound design can increase brand value, spark creativity, boost engagement and substantially improve a company’s bottom line.
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Whatever you do, wherever you go, whatever industry you work in, AI and its impact are omnipresent. However, as AI reshapes business, will companies and organisations be able to retain one of their most valuable assets: authentic human connection built on relationships and trust? Julian explores why the power of maintaining deep human relationships is key to differentiating from the masses in our digital world and can help fortify businesses and organisations against the risk of complete depersonalisation.
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