Deborah Collier FRSA

Meet Deborah Collier FRSA

Portman Collier Group’s CEO Deborah Collier is a senior international business and educational leader with 30-years multi-industry experience at both SMEs and large global organisations Her work building scaleable brands, strategic, creative and commercial product development oversight experience, and expertise in governance, corporate, business strategy, digital, digital business, technology, content, audience engagement, commerce and marketing.

About

Deborah Collier is an influential strategic & ‘Futurist Leader’ with 30-years’ experience working across digital, technology, marketing and business. A digital, media and technology entrepreneur, described as a ‘global economic force’ as founder and president of industry’s global awarding body Digital Skills Authority. She is also a media CEO, and former non-executive director. Her insights, training and influence have helped millions of organizations and individuals around the globe. A member of MENSA, and keynote speaker, her international readership, viewers, audiences, subscribers and followers included Senators, diplomats, politicians, UK members of the House of Lords, governors, scientists, media, broadcast editors and station chiefs, C-Suite Leaders, University Chancellors, entrepreneurs, blue-chip brand accounts, actors and other entertainment figures.

With 20-years’ senior executive and company director experience in the US and UK, in her earlier career she trained and advised leaders of some of the world’s best-known brands and government organisations including PwC, Procter & Gamble, Oman Ministry of Information and Technology, South African Post Office, Seagate, Mars, SABIC, Three, Schneider Electric and EY. A 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).

Creations

With a combined 20-years executive and production experience of digital interactive media and music, during her career she has written, scripted and overseen production, marketing, monetization and licensing of over 45-hrs of audio, video, animation and interactive visual content, and led development, implementation and integration of platforms for broadcast, subscription and download. As well as current strategic oversight of two exceptional high-end TV series and one large scale film project, US and UK Chair and board member, Deborah is President of industry awarding body and educational publisher ‘Digital Skills Authority’, a global organisation she founded and grew to a net value of over $10-million. Her experience includes the creation of an online network, the development and delivery of the first ever ‘Content Strategy & Audience Engagement course’ delivered to brands like Warner and Skype, a content subscription platform of over 100,000 business leaders and professionals, and a framework, format and branding for a high-end scalable magazine format TV Series. Deborah’s early writing background ranges from scripts and keynotes, modern and futurist stories, album and book reviews, business and music interviews, business, strategic and future themed articles, a insights newsletter attracting over 200,000 subscribers, as well as articles in the Telegraph. She has been the editor of an online business publication and regular columnist for a business magazine. She also won the ‘Editor’s Choice Award’ for her poem ‘The Awakening’ published in a book by the ‘International Society of Poetry’.

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