Writing and Delivering Effective Briefings

Zoë Collier

Zoë is a highly experienced, CIPD-qualified training consultant, delivering strategic advice, coaching and training in policy, strategy and communication skills. She started her career as a policy adviser to ministers in HM Treasury, where she ended up working as a Private Secretary to the Rt Hon John Major MP. Zoë moved to become a diplomat in the Foreign Office and then head of strategy at DCMS, before being appointed as a senior lecturer in policy and government at the National School of Government. It was here she discovered her passion for helping people to work more effectively and with impact and confidence.

She is a highly effective and motivational coach and trainer, and has applied her professional experience, together with her training and coaching skills, to deliver training programmes for a wide range of organisations, both in the UK and EU as well as extensively across the world.

Zoe has also worked in the private, local government and voluntary sectors, and is a published author of several short stories.

Specialisms:

• Policymaking and political thinking;
• Strategy and foresight;
• Stakeholder and citizen engagement;
• Negotiation and influencing skills;
• Advising, briefing and report-writing.

Education:

• MA (Hones, Cantab), BA (Hones) Philosophy & Law, Cambridge University
• Certificate in Training Practice, CIPD