Deborah Collier is a visionary, strategic & Futurist Leader® with 30-years’ experience of working across digital, technology, marketing and business. She is a digital, media and technology entrepreneur, described as a ‘global economic force’ as founder and president of industry's global awarding body the Digital Skills Authority. She is also a media CEO, and former non-executive director, who organically built a successful global multi-million publishing business, 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 by trainers through Digital Skills Authority since 2016.With 20-years' senior executive and company director experience in the US and UK, in her earlier career 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, Skype, Three, 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, 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, entrepreneurs, blue-chip brand accounts, actors and other entertainment figures… 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).
