Eve Poole

Author of Robot Souls

Panel: Reframing the Narrative On The Human

Dr Eve Poole OBE has a BA from Durham, an MBA from Edinburgh, and a PhD in Theology and Capitalism from Cambridge. She has written several books, including Robot Souls and Leadersmithing, which was Highly Commended in the 2018 Business Book Awards. For 15 years she taught leadership at Ashridge Business School, pioneering a new approach to the neurobiological development of leaders. Before Ashridge, she worked for the Church Commissioners and for Deloitte Consulting, where she specialised in change management for the Financial Services sector. More recently, she was Interim Chief Executive of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (2023), Interim CEO of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2022), Third Church Estates Commissioner (2018-2021), and the first female Chairman of Gordonstoun (2015-2021). She was awarded an OBE in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to education and gender equality and was made a Canon of York Minster in January 2024. She is a regular contributor to Thought for the Day on BBC Radio Scotland. You can follow her on twitter @evepoole and at http://evepoole.com/