Nathan S. Collier founded The Collier Companies with the intent to create a different kind of workplace – one with a true sense of community, a place that is a joy to live and work, and a place where Team Members truly care about each other as individuals and demonstrate that every day, in part by the depth of their commitment to quality, excellence and customer service. As a lifelong student, he also wanted to create an organization centered around learning and personal and professional growth.
Mr. Collier annually co-teaches within TCC a 10-week long program called Collier College sharing the intricacies of real estate investing as well as the life management soft skills necessary to be successful in any field of life such as emotional intelligence, decision making, goal setting, time/energy management, motivation, and communication.
Nathan has endowed the Nathan S. Collier Master of Science in Real Estate program through UF’s Warrington College of Business and teaches case studies every year. Nathan has also taught adjunctly at UF’s Levin College of Law where he previously earned his Juris Doctorate degree, and given commencement speeches for UF’s Warrington College of Business in 2010 and 2018.
In 2019, Nathan S. Collier founded The Collier Prize for State Government Accountability through UF College Of Journalism and Communications. Collier also serves as a member of Columbia University’s Columbia Journalism Review Board of Overseers.
In 2024, Nathan founded The Peter F. Collier Award for Ethics in Journalism, an accolade recognizing student and professional journalists who uphold the highest ethical standards despite facing significant pressures or incentives to compromise. The award is administered by the NYU Carter Journalism Institute’s Ethics and Journalism Initiative (EJI), underscoring its commitment to fostering integrity and accountability in the field of journalism.
With over a thousand posts, Nathan also blogs twice weekly on personal and professional growth at NSCBlog. His tag line on every post is ‘I share what I most want and need to learn.’
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