Isabel Berwick

About

I lead the FT's Working It brand, which covers the workplace, future of work, management and leadership, across text, audio, video and events. I write a weekly Working It newsletter, landing in FT subscribers' inboxes every Wednesday (free to sign up if with an FT sub - go to ft.com/newsletters). I hosted 153 episodes of the Working It podcast - that's retired, but we have many ideas for the future ...And if you have a problem at work, chances are we did a podcast on it - check out our archive on Apple and Spotify. My job is increasingly pivoting to video (as they say), in long and short formats. We spent 2025 filming season two of the FT Working It future of work series. [On YouTube - our graduate jobs fiilm has had >1.5mn views]. S3 is filming now until the end of 2026. My book, The Future Proof Career, is out in updated paperback (2025). I love talking to people about the book, their careers and all the crazy stuff that happens in workplaces. I get a lot from LinkedIn and meet interesting people here- I and was honoured to be named a LinkedIn ‘Top Voice’ in the UK, May 2026.I enjoy chairing and moderating panels and interviews, inside and outside the FT, and I am a keynote speaker on workplace themes. My speaking agents: JLA Speakers.Earlier in my career I won a Wincott Foundation award for personal finance reporting. It doesn't get better than that for a reporter, so I switched to editing: the hours were less punishing and my kids were small. Since then I've had great jobs on FT Weekend, as deputy editor of FT Magazine, then on Life & Arts and then associate editor of the Opinion section. I got into the management/workplace arena as editor of FT Work & Careers from 2018 until early 2023. A long time ago I was personal finance editor and then business editor of the Independent on Sunday.What else? I enjoy making connections and building my professional network across sectors: I have been going to Anthropy from the start - it's now a big annual gathering in Cornwall, and the most meaningful cross-sector conference in the UK (IMO).I attended the Aspen Institute UK leadership course in 2024 (highly recommend) and DO Lectures (camping, connections) in 2025. Events like this get me out of the journalism bubble: I learn so much from leaders and entrepreneurs. I am especially interested in education, social mobility and early careers. I was a longtime trustee for a charity supporting music in state schools. Now I'm a primary school governor, a mentor for aspiring journalists via the FT News School, and on the Futures for All speakers roster.