Julie Hansen Receives 2025 ASU+GSV Power of Women Award
Babbel, the world's leading online language learning platform, announces that Julie Hansen, CRO and US CEO, has been honored with the 2025 ASU+GSV Power of Women Award. This prestigious award recognizes exceptional women in education and workforce skills who are driving meaningful transformation across the industry.
This accolade celebrates Hansen's significant impact on Babbel’s revenue growth and market expansion. Since joining Babbel in 2017, she has been instrumental in expanding the company’s reach in the US market, establishing it as a leader in digital language learning. Under her guidance, Babbel has significantly increased its subscriber base and enhanced its consumer and B2B product offerings worldwide.
“Receiving this award is a great honor,” said Julie Hansen. “The recognition reflects not only my commitment but also the hard work and passion of the entire team at Babbel. Together, we are dedicated to making language learning accessible and impactful for everyone, empowering learners to connect across cultures and embrace new opportunities.”
The ASU+GSV Power of Women Award highlights the critical role that female leaders play in shaping the future of education and workforce development. This year’s honorees include a diverse group of innovators and leaders who exemplify the transformative power of women in the EdTech space.
For more information about the ASU+GSV Summit and Power of Women Award, please visit ASU+GSV Summit.
About Babbel
Babbel develops and operates an ecosystem of interconnected online language learning experiences and is driven by the purpose of creating mutual understanding through language. This means building products that help people connect and communicate across cultures. The Babbel App, Babbel Live, Babbel Podcasts and Babbel for Business products focus on using a new language in the real world, in real situations, with real people. And it works: Studies by linguists from institutions such as Michigan State University, Yale University and the City University of New York demonstrated the efficacy of Babbel’s language learning methods.
The key is a blend of humanity and technology. Babbel offers more than 60,000 lessons across 15 languages, hand-crafted by nearly 200 didactics experts, with user behaviors continuously analyzed to shape and tweak the learner experience. This results in constantly adapting, interactive content with live classes, games, podcasts and videos that make understanding a new language easy, from Spanish to Indonesian.
Because Babbel is for everyone, its team is as diverse as its content. From its headquarters in Berlin and its U.S. office in New York, 1000 people from more than 80 nationalities represent the backgrounds, characteristics and perspectives that make all humans unique. Babbel sold over 15 million subscriptions by creating a true connection with users.
More information: www.babbel.com
