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, who organically built a successful global multi-million publishing business. An internationally recognised leader in digital, she developed the first ever global digital governance framework in 2008 continually evolving and delivered by trainers through Digital Skills Authority.

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 internationally, 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).

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Deborah's early career started in the 90's at the UK Ministry of Defence, as one of the first women in IT. Further to nearly 12-years at blue-chip organisations such as JPMorgan, Fujitsu ICL, Fidelity Investments and Quantum Corporation, her combined analytic and creative acumen, led her toward Web, Commerce and Marketing, also running her own agency. This resulted in a consultative management role at PriceWaterhouseCoopers 2002-2004. Further to leaving PwC, she embarked on developing brands, leading the development, creation, sale and procurement of digital services and physical products (subscriptions, luxury and technology) over the Internet, using cutting-edge technologies such as early mobile commerce. She later developed an educational framework and strategic planning methodologies used by organisations around the globe. As a strategic leader and creator, she maintains a wide industry experience in her portfolio of board roles. During her career to 2016, she led a consultancy and training team, and has trained and advised leaders from international government ministries and organisations, and well-known blue-chip companies around the globe on e-government, business strategy, digital business, e-commerce and marketing. She has also been a columnist for a number of publications, and appeared on Channel 4 news regarding policy, regulation of the tech giants and handling of fake news and user-generated content, and has delivered a keynote speech to C-Suite Leaders at the House of Lords on the Future of Governance, having developed the world's first digital governance framework in 2008. The evolutionary 'Collier Global Governance Framework' has been taught and used by leaders around the globe for nearly two decades.

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