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
Driven by the purpose of creating mutual understanding through language, Babbel has been building digital language learning products for consumers and businesses since 2007. The Babbel app helps people connect and communicate across cultures, whether for travel, friendship, or career advancement. Based on a deep knowledge of how we learn languages, Babbel aims to make learners conversational as fast as possible. And it works: Studies from institutions like Michigan State University, Yale University and the City University of New York demonstrate the efficacy of Babbel's language learning methods. Millions of language learners agree.
Babbel's secret sauce is the blend of true expertise, understanding of how humans learn, and the latest technology. Starting with one of 60,000 lessons across 15 languages hand-crafted by experts, the learner experience constantly adapts through behavior analysis to provide high quality interactive content that makes understanding a new language easy, from Spanish to Indonesian.
Because Babbel is for everyone, its team reflects this diversity. Across headquarters in Berlin and New York, a team from more than 80 nationalities represent the backgrounds and perspectives that make humans unique. With over 25 million subscriptions sold and an industry-leading retention rate, Babbel creates genuine connections with learners worldwide. For more information, visit www.babbel.com or download the apps in the App Store or Play Store.
