20 Facts About Jodie Cook

Jodie Cook is a British entrepreneur and author from Birmingham, UK.

Jodie Cook then attended King Edwards VI Five Ways School in Bartley Green, achieving 10 A grades at GCSE, before studying Business Management at the University of Sheffield.

Jodie Cook founded JC Social Media, a specialist social media agency, in 2011 the day after completing a year in the National Skills Academy for Social Care graduate scheme.

Jodie Cook published several books on social media management for business.

In 2013, Jodie Cook co-founded and co-wrote Clever Tykes, a series of children's storybooks written to inspire enterprising behaviour in primary school children.

Jodie Cook was invited to discuss the project with the Prime Minister's enterprise advisor Lord Young, and the project was included in a national government report entitled "Enterprise for All" after receiving his endorsement.

In May 2017, Jodie Cook recorded her TEDx talk "Creating Useful People" at TEDx Aston University.

Jodie Cook delivered the opening keynote at the 2018 NACUE Student Enterprise Conference.

In 2017, Jodie Cook was a guest on the BBC Radio 4 programme, "Being bored: the importance of doing nothing" hosted by Phill Jupitus, where she suggested that he solved his problem of never being bored by scheduling boredom in his diary.

In 2018 Jodie Cook interviewed Jupitus for the Clever Tykes podcast: Creating Useful People, which explores the childhood influences that shape future success.

In 2018, Jodie Cook became a contributing writer for Forbes, on the topic of entrepreneurship.

In 2019, Jodie Cook released the book Stop Acting Like You're Going To Live Forever, a collection of 36 articles on the topics of entrepreneurship, happiness and lifestyle design, and its accompanying guided journal.

In 2020, Jodie Cook released the book How To Raise Entrepreneurial Kids, published by Rethink Press, and accompanying playbook, with entrepreneur Daniel Priestley.

In 2021, Jodie Cook released the book Instagram Rules, published by White Lion Publishing, an imprint of Quarto.

In 2022, Jodie Cook released the book Ten Year Career: Reimagine business, design your life, fast track your freedom, published by John Murray Publishing, an imprint of Hachette.

In 2023 Jodie Cook cofounded Coachvox AI, a company that creates AI coaches.

In February 2025 Jodie Cook was ranked number 8 in a list of AI experts in the UK according to a report by Favikon.

In May 2014, Jodie Cook won the title Birmingham Young Professional of the Year at an event at the International Convention Centre having won the marketing and communications category.

Jodie Cook was named a 'rising star' in Computer Weekly's 50 Women in Tech in 2015 and named as one of Birmingham's most influential people in the Birmingham Post's Power 250.

Jodie Cook won the 2022 English Championships in the 57 kg weight class category and was invited to compete at the 2022 Commonwealth Powerlifting Championships in New Zealand.