Chris Colbert

USA
Global Head of Employer Brand at Nokia

In his 20+ year career at both Nokia and Siemens, Chris has had the unique opportunity to work at a global level across multiple business disciplines. His unique combination of skills span across both marketing communications and human resource disciplines with a deep passion for innovative and highly creative video and digital marketing campaigns.

In his current role, Chris leads the global employee branding team for Nokia. Most recently this team has undertaken the challenging task of evolving the brand’s visual approach as well as updating their EVP messaging to best attract and retain early-career talent to this 150+ year old technology company. Most recently the team has embarked on the use of cutting-edge Augmented Reality (AR) tech to bring a new level of engagement to their various campus and job fair collateral materials.

Chris is based in South Florida and has earned a Bachelor’s and MBA from the University of Miami. Additionally, Chris has served as an adjunct professor of marketing at Florida Atlantic University where he delivers his very popular “Marketing in the new Millennium” course to their executive and full-time MBA students. This unique course takes a look at both macro and micro trends that are most likely to impact and influence the future experience of marketing practitioners.