Rachel Botsman

Author and Trust Expert

Rachel's first book, What's Mine is Yours, shone a light on the gig economy. In Who Can You Trust? she considers the implications when we lose faith in institutions and the media. What is the role of the tech giants, how can leaders restore the trust of consumers and employees - and what does it mean for everything from elections to health to digital money? Rachel explains how trust works.

Not only have Rachel's book and ideas helped me make lifestyle choices, she's also got some absolutely essential advice for twenty-first century businesses. Her speeches are peppered with nuggets that you'll find yourself repeating to friends and colleagues for days to come. 200,000 views within two weeks of her latest TED Global talk going online say it all.
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Biography

Rachel Botsman is a trust expert, author, and lecturer at Oxford University. She is passionate about teaching people how to think differently and challenge ideas around trust, humility, and integrity. She created Oxford University’s first course on trust in the digital world at the Saïd Business School.

Rachel has been recognised as one of the world’s 30 most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50, one of the Top 10 most influential voices in the UK on LinkedIn and honoured as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

She is the author of critically acclaimed books that have been translated into fourteen languages. What’s Mine is Yours, predicted the rise of the ‘sharing economy’ and was hailed by TIME magazine as one of the “10 Ideas that Will Change the World.” Her second book, Who Can You Trust?, explores the profound ways trust is shifting in the world; it was praised by Adam Grant, Marc Benioff, Sherry Turkle, and was named one of the best books of the year by Wired.

Rachel is a world-renowned speaker for her clear insights and warm storytelling, she is often voted the audience’s favourite speaker at events and her TED talks have been viewed more than five million times.

She is a regular contributor to The Guardian, Financial Times, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review and Wired. Through her newsletter, Rethink, Rachel engages with a community of over 35,000 subscribers every fortnight.

“Her message really connected and impacted the entire audience.”

“The audience responses we have received about Rachel’s presentation were overwhelming. I don’t think anyone knew what to expect from her but everyone walked away completely blown away by what she had to say. We have had such interest in her from within HP as well as from audience members in general.” — Hewlett Packard

“Rachel Botsman speaks from the heart and directly to everyone in her audience. She wowed TEDxSydney. Collaborative Consumption is a new narrative, the new inspiration about sharing in very contemporary way.” — TEDx Sydney If you weren’t already convinced that collaboration is the current world wave—in politics, business, life—then listen to Rachel Botsman on the subject! Her talk at Microsoft Research both provoked and inspired, setting off an active conversation that continues to this day and world-wide within the company.” — Microsoft Research Visiting Speaker Series

“Rachel Botsman was a brilliant speaker at the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting. She captured imaginations when speaking about how collaborative technologies are reshaping our relationships and reinventing the world around us in life-changing ways. Rachel is on the vanguard of an extraordinary movement…” — Clinton Global Initiative

“It’s not often you get to see a speaker of Rachels talent, intellect and calibre so accessible on Australia’s shores. She is a wonderful speaker who tailored her talk just for us. All the members who attended were highly impressed and the take-aways for the night were right on the money. As a futurist who has a deep understanding of collaborative consumption she truly is the global thought leader in the field and it only takes a few moments into her presentation to see why. EO Melbourne highly recommends her.” — Entrepreneurs Organisation (EO) Melbourne

“Attendees at the Sydney Digital, Marketing & Media Summit 2011 were delighted and inspired with Rachel’s though provoking and forward thinking presentation on Building a Collaborative Brand. Rachel possesses the skill and wisdom to excite and broaden the minds of any audience.” — Elite Media Group

“Rachel Botsman led her audience of tourism industry experts and local government councils on a discovery voyage as her presentation on Collaborative Consumption opened up a world they “kinda knew but not really”, and accentuated the change occurring all around us; she didn’t lose them for a moment, and left them better educated and aware of new opportunities and worldwide trends.” — Local Government and Shires Association NSW

“Rachel Botsman was captivating, relevant to our theme and an outstanding presenter. We were grateful to have had Rachel kick start our 3-Day Conference. ” — PropertyInvesting.com

“Rachel’s presentation was on topic, interesting and engaging. Our audience was thrilled with her presentation. The anecdotal feedback has been fantastic for both Rachel and her content.” — Hewlett Packard

“I would recommend Rachel to anyone! She listened to her briefing and her material was excellent for our audience. Her delivery was also highly engaging with the right mix of substance, humor and passion.” — LimeBridge (Aust) Pty Ltd

“Rachel is one of a very rare bread of presenters with the ability to simultaneously awe a room into silence, super charge them and call forth a powerful drive towards innovative thinking. She has grace and strength in her delivery and intelligence and candor in her content and the gift to inspire all generations in her positioning…” — LJ Hooker

“We engaged Rachel Botsman to be our keynote speaker at our C-level global thought-leadership roadshow. The ratings from our audience for Rachel were the amongst the very highest we have ever received. Rachel’s presentation was both motivating and energizing, seasoned with critically important cases studies from companies that are transforming industries and lives.” — John Burgin, Vice President and Region Head Australia and New Zealand, Cognizant.

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