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I help companies make creative leaps so they can change and innovate more intentionally…
Articles by Emilie
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Unlocking Complex Conversations With Humour: Taking a Cue from Pablo Suarez
Unlocking Complex Conversations With Humour: Taking a Cue from Pablo Suarez
By Emilie Colker
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We’re Conditioned to Focus on Success. I’m Fixating on Progress
We’re Conditioned to Focus on Success. I’m Fixating on Progress
By Emilie Colker
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Because the Budweiser brand was established in Europe in the 13th century, Anheuser Busch InBev does not have exclusive rights to the Budweiser name…
Because the Budweiser brand was established in Europe in the 13th century, Anheuser Busch InBev does not have exclusive rights to the Budweiser name…
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There are so many different ways to define what human leadership looks like. This represents one of the best to me: Michelle so beautifully marries…
There are so many different ways to define what human leadership looks like. This represents one of the best to me: Michelle so beautifully marries…
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Even though AT&T changed the category it wanted to operate in from "telecom, media and technology" to just telecommunications, it retained its focus…
Even though AT&T changed the category it wanted to operate in from "telecom, media and technology" to just telecommunications, it retained its focus…
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Experience
Honors & Awards
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European Excellence Awards - UK and Ireland award
European Excellence Awards
The European Excellence Awards were created to honour the most outstanding achievements of comms professionals.
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eurobest Silver Award
eurobest 2016
Winning for Project Literacy creativity and marketing results. Eurobest is the world's pre-eminient celebration of European creativity delivered by the organisers of Cannes Lions. It's a festival that draws on Europe's varied cultures and vibrant communities to inspire learning, interaction and debate.
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PRCA National Award for CSR
Public Relations and Communications Association
Won PRCA National Award in the category of CSR for outstanding PR and communications results for Project Literacy.
The PRCA is an annual award ceremony that celebrates the very best in PR and communications. The PRCA represents and regulates more than 20,000 PR and communications people and is the largest professional body for comms professionals in Europe. -
Cannes Lion Gold 2016
Cannes Lion
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Cannes Lion Grand Prix 2016
Cannes Lion
Won Cannes Lion Grand Prix in 2016 for Pearson and Project Literacy in recognition of integrated awareness campaign. Judges said "we were struck by the sheer, devastating power of the creativity", and the "effectiveness of a convened campaign" that achieved:
- 13 million views of hero film (in 3 months), with a click through rate that has been more than 10X the benchmark for similar types for commercials
- Campaign Reach: 462 million in first 2 weeks of campaign
- Traffic to…Won Cannes Lion Grand Prix in 2016 for Pearson and Project Literacy in recognition of integrated awareness campaign. Judges said "we were struck by the sheer, devastating power of the creativity", and the "effectiveness of a convened campaign" that achieved:
- 13 million views of hero film (in 3 months), with a click through rate that has been more than 10X the benchmark for similar types for commercials
- Campaign Reach: 462 million in first 2 weeks of campaign
- Traffic to partner websites up by 200%, and 80% increase in donations.
- 186 pieces of coverage generated, including the Times, Huffington Post, Vogue, The Guardian, Fast Company and from as far a field as Brazil
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D&AD Wood Pencil
D&AD
Project's Literacy's 'Alphabet of Illiteracy' campaign won a prestigious Wood Pencil at the D&AD awards in the Animation & Illustration for Digital Marketing category.
D&AD is one of the world’s toughest award shows celebrating the finest creative work in the world; only a handful of campaigns are awarded a pencil each year. Winning a pencil award is a highly coveted achievement with stiff competition from big brands with bigger budgets. -
Winner of E-Learning 2010 eAwards
E-Learning Magazine
GlobalEnglish Named Double Finalist for E-Learning 2010 eAwards, and winner of Development Company of the Year with Exceptional Customer Satisfaction.
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CODiE Award
SIIA
The GlobalEnglish Corporate Learning Service was recognized for excellence in the software, education and information industries at the 25th Annual CODiE Awards.
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Web Services Honoree
The Webby Awards
Winner of Webby award for AuPairCare's refreshed website.
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Transform Awards, Silver award for best internal communication during brand development project
Transform Awards
Award won for Pearson's rebrand, launched in January 2016.
Languages
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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French
Native or bilingual proficiency
Organizations
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FT Board Directors
Member
- PresentGroup of Executives who come together to discuss key issues related to risk, ESG, corporate governance, strategy, the future of work, culture. Participation includes events, access to insights, resources and training opportunities.
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Unreasonable Impact UK + Europe
Mentor to growth-stage sustainability ventures
- PresentA collaboration between Unreasonable and Barclays, I'm part of a group of mentors supporting the CEOs of a highly-vetted group of growth-stage, sustainability-focused ventures who are rapidly creating the jobs of tomorrow and solving some of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time. Unreasonable focuses on harnessing business to ensure a regenerative and just future. The 350+ entrepreneurs in the "Unreasonable Fellowship" have raised more than $12Bn in financing, are shaping…
A collaboration between Unreasonable and Barclays, I'm part of a group of mentors supporting the CEOs of a highly-vetted group of growth-stage, sustainability-focused ventures who are rapidly creating the jobs of tomorrow and solving some of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time. Unreasonable focuses on harnessing business to ensure a regenerative and just future. The 350+ entrepreneurs in the "Unreasonable Fellowship" have raised more than $12Bn in financing, are shaping trillion-dollar industries, and are uplifting the lives of more than 1.4 billion people. They handpick and privately invite the world's most impactful growth-stage ventures into the Fellowship. As an Unreasonable Mentor, I am humbled to have the opportunity to help scale the efforts of these history-defining ventures.
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Mentor Black Businesses
Mentor
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Public Digital
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- PresentIDEO and Public Digital joined forces in January 2018 after driving a highly successful approach to embedding digital thinking and practices into La Victoria Lab (http://lavictoria.pe), the innovation arm of Peru's largest conglomerate of businesses, Intercorp. We partner on large-scale business transformation and approach it from the different perspectives of human-centred design and digital process management, but we have shared values and a collaborative approach to helping make companies…
IDEO and Public Digital joined forces in January 2018 after driving a highly successful approach to embedding digital thinking and practices into La Victoria Lab (http://lavictoria.pe), the innovation arm of Peru's largest conglomerate of businesses, Intercorp. We partner on large-scale business transformation and approach it from the different perspectives of human-centred design and digital process management, but we have shared values and a collaborative approach to helping make companies competitive through the effective use of technology and Internet-era ways of working. Most recently, throughout 2021, a hand-picked team from IDEO and Public Digital partnered with NHSX to drive and support the digital transformation of Children and Young People's Mental Health Services in England. Together we created training materials and resources to support education, upskilling and agency amongst front line workers and practitioners managing an over stressed system impacting their ability to successfully support the needs of children and young people at scale. https://public.digital/
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30% Club
Member
- PresentThe 30% Club launched as a campaign in the UK in 2010 with a goal of achieving a minimum of 30% women on FTSE-100 boards. Selected as one of five UK employees to take part in mentoring scheme run by 30% Club intended to foster leadership in senior female leaders at FTSE companies in UK. https://30percentclub.org
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Unreasonable Futures
Growth-stage sustainability venture mentor
-A collaboration between Fossil Foundation, Pearson and Accenture, Unreasonable FUTURE aligns the promise of leading edge technologies with the future of inclusive work and social equity. As a mentor we work with handpicked growth-stage entrepreneurs and ventures that are at the forefront of supporting and disrupting the very nature of work. This is not another corporate-backed accelerator, but a way in which we're to helping these ventures grow and scale intentionally to impact the future of…
A collaboration between Fossil Foundation, Pearson and Accenture, Unreasonable FUTURE aligns the promise of leading edge technologies with the future of inclusive work and social equity. As a mentor we work with handpicked growth-stage entrepreneurs and ventures that are at the forefront of supporting and disrupting the very nature of work. This is not another corporate-backed accelerator, but a way in which we're to helping these ventures grow and scale intentionally to impact the future of work in a more inclusive fashion.
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FT 125
Member
-The 125 is an exclusive members-only forum hosted by the FT that holds regular briefings with top speakers, chaired by Financial Times journalists, that provide senior executives with perspective on the fast changing business environment. https://the125.ft.com
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Unreasonable Impact with Barclays
Mentor
-Unreasonable Group and Barclays have built Unreasonable Impact to support companies positioned to create 500+ jobs each over the next five years. They host intensive two-week Accelerator programmes designed to support growth-stage ventures in the UK, Europe and Asia by providing entrepreneurs with the resources, mentorship, and global network of support that they need to rapidly create jobs and address key global issues. http://unreasonableimpact.com
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UNESCO Global Alliance for Literacy
Member and Advisor
-The UNESCO was asked by the UN General Assembly to play a coordinating and catalysing role in advancing literacy as part of the Sustainable Development Goals through the creation of a multi-stakeholder partnership. The Global Alliance for Literacy (GAL) was formed in 2016 and is the response to this call to action. This new alliance aimed to further define SDG target 4.6 and to develop the implementation of a global framework for action with agencies and institutes, academics, donors and the…
The UNESCO was asked by the UN General Assembly to play a coordinating and catalysing role in advancing literacy as part of the Sustainable Development Goals through the creation of a multi-stakeholder partnership. The Global Alliance for Literacy (GAL) was formed in 2016 and is the response to this call to action. This new alliance aimed to further define SDG target 4.6 and to develop the implementation of a global framework for action with agencies and institutes, academics, donors and the private sector, civil society and others. There were only two private sector contributors to this 30-person forum, and I was invited to represent Pearson as well as the 100+ partners that make up Project Literacy. http://uil.unesco.org/literacy/global-alliance
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