Julian Treasure

World's foremost expert in transforming how people connect and listen through the power of conscious communication.

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Julian Treasure's Biography

Julian Treasure is the world's foremost expert in transforming how people connect and listen through the power of conscious communication. His TED Talk, How to Speak So That People Want to Listen, is the sixth-most-viewed TED Talk of all time with over 45 million views globally. In our increasingly noisy and chaotic world, Julian tackles broken communication that drives workplace inefficiency, team disconnection, and misunderstanding. Through his proven approach to re-skilling individuals, teams, and organisations in conscious listening and powerful speaking, he delivers measurable improvements in productivity, engagement, and collaboration. Following a distinguished career as a musician with several leading indie bands, Julian Treasure transitioned to become the world's leading authority on conscious communication, dedicating over two decades to transforming how individuals and organisations connect through sound and listening. For the past 20 years Julian has worked with global brands helping them to design effective sound in their physical spaces, branding and marketing initiatives. His science-based approach addresses the root causes of communication breakdown, helping teams, leaders and individuals cast off destructive habits and develop the skills needed for genuine connection and enhanced performance. This work directly tackles the $10 trillion annual cost that miscommunication and disengagement imposes on the global economy. 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. Julian is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Marketors. He has been honoured with both Toastmasters International's Golden Gavel Award and the International Listening Association's Special Recognition Award, and his online courses on communication skills have taught over 150,000 students.

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How To Speak So That People Want To Listen

Communicate with clarity and influence so your message lands and people take action.

In today’s distracted workplace, being heard is not enough. When communication fails, decisions stall, engagement drops and great ideas get lost. Drawing on decades of research and having worked with over 100,000 individuals globally, Julian shares proven methods for commanding any room, influencing effectively, and delivering messages that resonate. Learn how to structure powerful messages, speak with authentic confidence, and deliver with impact, so teams align faster, and audiences don't just listen, they act.

Key Messages:

Master the essential tools to command attention and influence any audience
Develop powerful speaking presence and techniques that inspire action and engagement
Discover how to optimise both content and delivery in any situation

The Listening Leader

Build trust, alignment and engagement through better listening.

The cost to global business of miscommunication and disengagement is currently $10 trillion annually, and the root cause is often a lack of real listening. When leaders don’t truly listen, teams drift into assumptions and misalignment, trust weakens, and execution slows. With over 20 years’ experience teaching communication skills, Julian reveals the hidden costs of miscommunication and disengagement, and shares practical tools leaders can use immediately to strengthen engagement, improve decision-making, and unlock higher performance across teams and organisations.

Key Messages

Master the leadership skill of high-impact listening to drive clarity and results
Strengthen engagement to boost well-being, spark innovation, and accelerate growth
Build loyalty and unlock team potential by becoming a leader who truly listens

Building Trust In An AI world

Protect your competitive advantage by strengthening authentic human connection.

As AI reshapes business, can companies and organisations retain one of their most valuable assets: authentic human connection? Trust-based relationships are now the ultimate differentiator for leadership, culture, customer loyalty, and engagement. Julian shows why human connection has become a strategic advantage and equips audiences with practical communication habits to deepen trust, strengthen relationships, and create sustainable loyalty with teams and customers, protecting the "human advantage" that technology cannot replace.

Key messages:

Build authentic connections that strengthen customer loyalty and employee engagement
Take away simple techniques to stay credible, present, and trusted in an AI-shaped world
Implement proven strategies to future-proof culture through genuine human connection

The Sonic Advantage: How Sound Drives Performance & Profit

Most businesses don’t realise it, but sound has a profound impact on performance and profit. Drawing on extensive research into how sound can impact physiology, psychology, cognition and behaviour, Julian asks whether your workplace is optimised for success. He reveals how intelligent sound design in offices and branded spaces can increase productivity and well-being, spark creativity, boost staff and customer engagement and improve a company’s bottom line.

Key messages:

Discover how sound directly affects employee performance, creativity and decision-making
Uncover the hidden costs of poor workplace acoustics and communication breakdowns
Understand how multisensory design can create harmony, engagement and effectiveness

Julian Treasure's Biography

Julian Treasure is the world's foremost expert in transforming how people connect and listen through the power of conscious communication. His TED Talk, How to Speak So That People Want to Listen, is the sixth-most-viewed TED Talk of all time with over 45 million views globally.

In our increasingly noisy and chaotic world, Julian tackles broken communication that drives workplace inefficiency, team disconnection, and misunderstanding. Through his proven approach to re-skilling individuals, teams, and organisations in conscious listening and powerful speaking, he delivers measurable improvements in productivity, engagement, and collaboration.

Following a distinguished career as a musician with several leading indie bands, Julian Treasure transitioned to become the world's leading authority on conscious communication, dedicating over two decades to transforming how individuals and organisations connect through sound and listening.

For the past 20 years Julian has worked with global brands helping them to design effective sound in their physical spaces, branding and marketing initiatives. His science-based approach addresses the root causes of communication breakdown, helping teams, leaders and individuals cast off destructive habits and develop the skills needed for genuine connection and enhanced performance. This work directly tackles the $10 trillion annual cost that miscommunication and disengagement imposes on the global economy.

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.

Julian is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Marketors. He has been honoured with both Toastmasters International's Golden Gavel Award and the International Listening Association's Special Recognition Award, and his online courses on communication skills have taught over 150,000 students.