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Emily Kasriel Keynote Speaker
- Author of 'Deep Listening: Transform Your Relationships with Family, Friends and Foes' (2025)
- Award Winning Journalist, Executive Coach , Keynote Speaker and Moderator
- Was a Senior Adviser to the Skoll Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and a Visiting Fellow at Said Business School at the University of Oxford
Emily Kasriel's Biography
Emily Kasriel is a highly experienced media executive, awarding-winning journalist, who has led a range of high-profile projects on staff for the BBC as well as reporting and producing for the BBC from five continents.
She is also an author – Emily’s breakthrough book is Deep Listening: Transform Your Relationships with Family, Friends and Foes’, published in 2025.
Emily developed her Deep Listening approach as a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College Policy Institute in London and previously as a Practitioner in Residence at the London School of Economics. She has also drawn on her decade long experience as an Executive Coach, accredited with the Association for Coaching, and more recently as a workplace mediator. She is currently a visiting scholar at Columbia University.
Emily led the BBC British Council Crossing Divides around the Globe project, signing up more than 1000 young people from 119 countries for her training in Deep Listening – following a pilot of 150 in Lebanon, 300 IBM executives from across Europe; executive coaches from multiple organisations, and cohorts of leaders from the British army to McDonald’s with the UK’s Forward Institute for responsible leadership.
In her work at BBC News, she led projects spanning BBC Crossing Divides to SoICanBreathe, to setting up and running the BBC News Komla Dumor Award for African journalists – as well as leading arts and culture, religion and then the ideas department at the BBC World Service.
She was previously a Senior Adviser to the Skoll Foundation and a Visiting Fellow at Said Business School at the University of Oxford. She has written for a number of major publications and chairs a wide range of panels, events and interviews around the world, and is on the board of the Wingate Foundation. She has been awarded an MA from the University of Oxford and another from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University on a Rotary Fellowship.
Emily Kasriel's Speaking Topics
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Deep Listening for Leaders
In the midst of rapidly changing technology, a hybrid post-pandemic work environment, and profound social polarisation, it is more important than ever for today’s leaders to be able to truly listen to – and connect with – their teams. By embracing Deep Listening, leaders can strengthen their empathy, enhance the connectivity within their organisations, and foster genuine understanding across cultural, political, and generational divides - leading to a more motivated and productive business. Drawing on scientific studies, new research, and powerful stories, Emily Kasriel unveils her simple yet transformative eight-step approach.
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Deep Listening: How to Transform Your Relationships at Work
Distracted by our own agenda, we so often hear without understanding, impatiently waiting for our turn to speak. In this exploration of transformational listening, Emily Kasriel shows how shifting from surface-level exchanges to Deep Listening can enrich our relationships, enhance our effectiveness as leaders, and strengthen the fabric of our businesses and organisations. At a time when divisions within organisations are often a profound challenge, Kasriel offers inspiration and practical guidance on how we can better listen to each other, even when we fiercely disagree.
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