Julian Treasure
Transform workplace communication with Julian Treasure, world-renowned communication expert and TED speaker. Julian equips organisations to overcome miscommunication costs through conscious listening and powerful speaking techniques. His TED Talk is the sixth most viewed of all time with 45 million watches. His courses have reached 150,000+ professionals globally.
Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
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Julian has authored three acclaimed books, including Sound Affects and How to Be Heard, while his online communication courses have taught over 150,000 students. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, he combines artistic sensibility with scientific rigour to address communication challenges.
In today's environment of hybrid work chaos and digital overload, Julian tackles the $10 trillion annual cost of miscommunication in the global economy. His science-based approach addresses root causes of communication breakdown, helping organisations develop skills for genuine connection and enhanced performance. By re-skilling individuals and teams in conscious listening and powerful speaking, he delivers measurable improvements in productivity and collaboration.
Audiences leave Julian's presentations with practical tools to command attention, techniques to transform workplace communication patterns, and strategies to build authentic connections that create unbreakable loyalty—even as AI reshapes our professional landscape.
Book Julian to give your team the communication advantage that drives performance, wellbeing, and business success in an increasingly noisy world.
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Julian Treasure demonstrates the essential skills that make messages resonate and inspire action. Combining neuroscience and storytelling, he explains why delivery is as crucial as content, and how small adjustments can dramatically increase influence. With examples drawn from business and media, he empowers audiences to speak with authenticity, confidence, and clarity—transforming everyday interactions into moments of genuine impact and persuasion.
Julian Treasure reveals how leaders who truly listen can transform engagement, loyalty, and innovation within their teams. Drawing from decades of research into conscious communication, he shows how listening leadership drives collaboration, reduces conflict, and enhances wellbeing. Audiences discover practical methods to replace communication fatigue with clarity and connection, unlocking peak performance through the simple yet powerful act of hearing others fully.
As technology reshapes how we interact, Julian Treasure highlights the irreplaceable value of authentic human connection. He examines how communication breakdown threatens trust and collaboration, and shares how empathy and listening can restore them. With warmth and authority, he shows how building real relationships remains the most powerful differentiator in an AI-driven age, helping organisations future-proof their culture and customer loyalty.
Julian Treasure explores how sound shapes behaviour, productivity, and creativity in the workplace. He uncovers the hidden financial and emotional costs of poor acoustics and reveals how sound design can boost morale, focus, and performance. Blending science with practical insight, he demonstrates how conscious use of sound becomes a competitive advantage, improving not only profits but the overall human experience of work.
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