Pilar Barrio

Founder of Barrio Digital, the Expert Collective.

Pilar is a digital consultant, international trainer and speaker. She advised hundreds of brands looking to cut through the noise of the digital space. They include Sony Pictures, Playstation, Coca Cola, Chevrolet, BBC and Microsoft.

Pilar has trained and coached over 5,000 business professionals around the world, in more than 50 face to face workshops and over 20 online courses.

Since 2016, she is a Lead Facilitator for the Google Digital Academy, where she trains their top clients in mobile strategy, programmatic advertising and user-centric marketing. Her compelling style is straightforward, energising, stimulative of discussion and regularly inspires listeners into action.

Pilar has been a Course Leader at Emeritus since 2017, advising students in the Columbia Business School and MIT online courses of Digital Marketing, Digital Strategy for Business and Platform Strategies.

Pilar founded her own business in 2014, with a vision to help evolve an industry. She wanted to work with people who were interested in shaping their own work-style, with freedom and balance, and the feeling that they are making a difference. Barrio Digital is a collective of digital professionals from all over the world, who use the power of community to deliver best-in-class consultancy and training.