Windsor, England, United Kingdom
Deborah Collier FRSA is a visionary, strategic & Futurist Leader® with 30-years’ experience of working across digital, technology, marketing and business. A world leading digital and marketing expert, she is a digital, media and technology entrepreneur and investor, described as a ‘global economic force’ as founder and president of industry's global awarding body the Digital Skills Authority. She has been a media CEO for 20-years and is a former non-executive director, who organically built a successful global media business and awarding body, implementing its sophisticated e-learning and certification platform, and a high-performing in-house multimedia team. In 2008, she developed the first ever global digital governance framework and strategic planning methodologies, continually evolving and delivered through programs at Digital Skills Authority since 2016. With 20-years' senior executive and company director experience in the US and UK, in her earlier career to 2014, she trained and advised leaders at some of the world’s best-known brands and government organisations internationally, including PwC, Procter & Gamble, Oman Ministry of Information and Technology, South African Post Office, Seagate, Mars, SABIC, Zain, Skype, VodafoneThree, Schneider Electric and EY. Her training, thought-leadership and influence have helped millions of individuals and organisations around the globe. A member of MENSA, her international readership, viewers, audiences, subscribers and followers relating to strategy, leadership, governance, philosophy, innovation and the future include Senators, Diplomats, politicians, UK members of the House of Lords, governors, media, broadcast editors and station chiefs, C-Suite Leaders, University Chancellors, scientists, professionals, entrepreneurs, blue-chip brand accounts, actors and other entertainment figures… An author and keynote speaker, Deborah's awards include Top 10 Global Thought Leader in Business Strategy, Legal & IP according to Thinkers360 and Top 50 in Leadership and Emerging Technology, she was also listed in Richtopia's ‘Top 100 Most Influential Chief Marketing Officers in the World’ (2016). Leading the 5th Industrial Revolution, through innovation, insights, motivation and the provision of vital skills training, certifications and awards, internationally. Deborah is Honorary President of the Official Brilliance Awards at BrillianceAwards.com. She personally confers the Brilliance Awards’ highest honour, the 'President’s Award for Ethics & Innovation'.
The Digital Skills Authority is industry’s Global Awarding Body for Advanced Digital and Digital Business Skills. We are a multi-national organization, described as a potential “cornerstone of the global economy”, due to the impact of our products, services and ecosystem on careers, businesses, livelihoods and retirement income internationally. Together with our digital business series, founded in 2008, we deliver a three pillared model for Global Sustainability - Economic, Social & Environment. We work with clients and partners internationally and have offices in UK, USA, UAE, Germany and India with Singapore soon to be announced, each with a Vice-President (Managing Director) for the respective region. Take a look at our newDiplomat, Policy Maker & Governor certifications, as well as our awards at BrillianceAwards.com, and watch out for our AI, Cybersecurity and creative programs launching soon.
As well as global business, marketing, information and technology strategy, I also oversee the four departments and multimedia production, alongside my role as Group CEO and President.
Thought-Leader, creator, keynote speaker and author. Represented by Chartwell Speakers agency. 100K+ YouTube Subscribers (Over 2.4 million video views), 200K+ newsletter subscribers, 35K X subscribers (when Twitter). Watch out for Bluesky (10K+) and Facebook Subjects: Future & Humanity Education & Information Strategy Digital, Philosophy & Emerging Technology Economy, Business & Commerce Leadership & Governance Strategy, Innovation & Creativity From 2016 - 2019 - Led strategy development & research initiatives such as ‘The wants, needs, challenges of humans in 2030’
Blending research, innovation, leadership, branding and business strategy to build cutting-edge impacting technological and digital ventures, with team of specialists and technologists.
Private investor, shareholder, IP development company, (the CEO’s creations) - The Digital Skills Authority - Screenplay movie based on true-story WW2 (Valia) - Toward Utopia Magazine format media series - Animation series - future music
Chief Executive & Marketing Officer of a group working with blue-chip organisations including Fortune 500 companies, governments, as well as start-ups and SMEs around the globe. The group included an e-business & marketing consultancy Echo E-Business with a team of digital experts specialising in strategy, planning, advice, marketing services, media buying and training to SMEs, leaders and teams at well-known brands and government organisations around the globe, and publisher Learn E-Business with a pilot educational membership network of over 100,000 business leaders, department heads and professionals. It operated a series of closed awards competitions called the Brilliance Awards.