Rachel Botsman
Associate Fellow
- Rachel.Botsman@sbs.ox.ac.uk
Saïd Business School
University of Oxford
Park End Street
Oxford
OX1 1HP
Profile
Named one of the world’s 30 most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50, a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, one of the Top 10 Most Influential Voices on LinkedIn and one of Fast Company’s most Creative People in Business, Rachel Botsman is a leading expert and author on trust in the digital world.
Rachel is the author of two ground breaking books that have been translated into 14 languages. What’s Mine is Yours (Harper Collins, 2010) predicted the rise of the ‘sharing economy’ and was subsequently named by TIME as one of the 'Ten Ideas That Will Change the World'. Her highly acclaimed work Who Can You Trust? (Penguin Portfolio, 2017) is an exploration of how technology is revolutionising human trust. It has been praised Adam Grant, Marc Benioff, Sherry Turkle, Andy Haldane and Don Tapscott and was shortlisted for the Business Book Awards.
As the go-to voice on trust, Rachel has an insightful and engaging media presence across channels, including the BBC, CNN, NPR, and ABC. She was the writer and host of BBC Radio 4 series The Trust Shift. Her TED Talks have been viewed over 5 million times.
Rachel has lived and worked on four different continents, giving her a global perspective on the important issues of our times. She lives in Oxford and is passionate about empowering the next generation to make informed decisions about trust in a rapidly changing world.
Research
By distilling complex ideas and research into clear and compelling content, Rachel gives people new frames to rethink trust.
Her work has been widely published in the media including The Guardian, TIME, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Wired and other publications.
Awards: Best Independent Newsletter Finalist; The Webby’s, 2024; Business Podcast of the Year, 2021 and 2023; HR Most Influential Thinker, 2021; The British Business Book Awards, finalist, 2017; Financial Times Business books of the month, 2017; Best 10 Books of 2017, Wired.
Teaching
Rachel is described as dynamic and thought-provoking by her students providing actionable insights grounded in theory.
Rachel's highly interactive teaching style is focused on giving people clear frameworks and practical tools that have a lasting impact on the way they think about trust. She encourages students to engage with the material by using real-world case studies and testing ideas against their own thinking and behaviours. The focal point of her teaching is a inquisitive trust mind-set that enables students to challenge assumptions and rethink what they know.
Rachel has taught large cohorts of students as well as small groups of leaders and board members at the highest levels with organisations.
- Oxford Advanced Leadership & Management Programme
- MBA - Trust in the Digital Age (elective); The Collaborative Economy (elective)
- Open Programmes - Oxford Bank Governance Programme
- Custom Programmes - Contributor to the Corporate Affairs Academy on trust and reputation
- Oxford Leading Professional Service Firms
- Oxford Executive Diploma in AI for Business
- Online - Rachel contributes to the online programmes on Strategic Innovation and Leading Professional Service Firms
Podcasts
- Listen to Rachel’s latest thinking on the Culture First Podcast, In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen and on Radio 4.
- Read Rachel’s latest ideas on how trust is changing in the world in TIME
- Watch Rachel’s views on a trust at the 2024 World Economic Forum.
Social Media
Rachel was selected as one of LinkedIn's influencers, joining a global collective of the world's foremost business thinkers and innovators including Richard Branston, Bill Gates, Simon Sinek, and Adam Grant.
You can read and engage with the articles and posts she shares on LinkedIn, Twitter, Medium and Substack.
