"I'm interested in the art of finding and creating spaces to encourage different ways of thinking."
Biography
Rachel Botsman is a leading expert on trust in the modern world. She is the author of three critically acclaimed books – What’s Mine is Yours, Who Can You Trust? and How To Trust & Be Trusted. Rachel was the first Trust Fellow at Oxford University, Saïd Business School, where she currently teaches leaders and entrepreneurs.
In speaking engagements for leading organizations, she is consistently voted the audience’s favourite speaker, and her TED talks have been viewed more than five million times.
Rachel writes on trust and profound societal shifts for the Financial Times, The New York Times, Guardian, Harvard Business Review, and Wired. She also engages with over 85,000 subscribers through her weekly Rethink newsletter. She was the host and writer of the BBC Radio4 series The Trust Shift, and her podcast Rethink Moments was nominated as one of the top five Best Business Podcasts of the Year.
Always driven by curiosity, Rachel is an artist and storyteller at heart after studying art at the Ruskin School, University of Oxford. She reimagines historical artefacts to question our relationship with work, society and each other. Her work uses transformation, playfulness, and fragility to trigger personal associations and conversations about critical issues of our time, be it trust, power, or humanness. Her Roots of Trust installation will be shown at the London Design Biennale at Somerset House in June 2025.
For her groundbreaking ideas and contributions to the importance of trust in society, she has been recognized as one of the world’s top 30 most influential management thinkers, named as one the top 10 most influential voices on LinkedIn, included in Fast Company’s list of “100 Most Creative People in Business,” and honoured as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. She has travelled and worked on every continent, except Antarctica.
When not working, she likes to unwind by gardening, running, making ‘stuff’ and hanging out at home in Oxford with her husband, two children and dog.
Honors and Awards
- Top 100 Most Creative People in Business, Fast Company
- Women of the Year, ‘The Progressive Voice’ InStyle
- ‘10 Ideas That Will Change The World’, Time
- World’s Top 50 Management Thinkers, Thinkers50
- Breakthrough Idea Award, Thinkers50
- Top 10 Most Influential Voices, LinkedIn
- HR Most Influential Thinkers, HR Magazine
- Top 20 Speakers in the World, Monocle
- Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum
- Finalist, CEO Book Awards
- Finalist, ‘Embracing Change’, Business Book Awards
- Finalist, Interview of the Year, British Podcast Awards