Emily Kasriel's book about Deep Listening is published by HarperCollins UK and US in May/June 2025.
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Emily is an experienced media executive 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 has developed the 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.
Emily has 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.
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