Collin Corbett is an entrepreneur, political strategist, and adventure-seeker from Palatine, Illinois.
Collin has founded dozens of successful businesses and organizations. This includes launching Cor Strategies from nothing. Starting with local school board and municipal races, he has since built Cor into the largest center-right political company in Illinois. Since 2009, these political messaging and strategy experts have served nearly 1,200 campaigns, organizations, and businesses. Collin also founded EmpowerPolitics, a cutting-edge platform that helps individuals, associations, and organizations engage in the political process, and Long9 Studio, a media company that promotes governing leaders who “lead like Lincoln.”
Collin is dedicated to fixing Illinois, advising political organizations and leaders throughout the state and speaking at civic organizations and school government classes. He is also passionate about recruiting, training, and electing the next generation of leaders throughout the country. In nearly 20 years in politics, he has recruited and trained over 3,500 candidates and activists.
In other community activities, Collin has served as a mentor to up-and-coming entrepreneurs and local high school students through several mentorship non-profits. He has served in leadership roles on numerous boards. In 2015, he received “The Outstanding Young Person of Illinois” Award from the Illinois Jaycees.
Collin lives a life full of experiences and is always seeking his next adventure. He dove on the ocean floor with Great White Sharks and had a great white shark in Mossel Bay named after him, hiked inside an active volcano and witnessed multiple volcanic eruptions, swam at the edge of Victoria Falls, kneeled inside The Garden Tomb, climbed the Grand Canyon, played soccer with an elephant, scuba dived the Great Barrier Reef, slept in Ashford Castle, drank whiskey in Ireland's oldest pub, pet a lion, flew a falcon through castle grounds, prayed at the Wailing Wall, stood on the edge of Table Mountain, kissed the Blarney Stone, snorkeled with orcas, white water rafted the Zambezi River, did a photoshoot in the castle where Excalibur was forged, watched the sunrise from a hot air balloon in the Australian Outback, cliff dove into a cenote, fished on the Sea of Galilee, ate dinner by campfire in the African bush, walked inside a passage tomb older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids, earned the title Lord and Grand Protector of Bunratty Castle, stepped foot on six of the seven continents, swam in four of the five oceans, and visited five of the new and natural wonders of the world. Collin’s dream adventure: the South Pole.
Married to the love of his life at a ceremony in the Arlington Park paddock in 2015, Collin and Abbey live in Palatine with their baby boy, Theodore Rex (yes, they named their son T Rex!), and their rescue dog, Dustin. When not talking politics in the nearest cigar shop with an Irish whiskey in hand, Collin can be found grilling (on charcoal), cheering on his Bears and White Sox, speeding in his Challenger, playing in the snow with his dog, building with LEGO, quoting his (very, very distant) cousin Abe Lincoln and his favorite (unrelated) politician Winston Churchill, or watching re-runs of The Office.
Bring the Expert to You: Book Collin Corbett
With nearly 20 years in politics and over 3,500 candidates and activists trained, Collin is one of the country's premier political messaging and campaign strategy experts.
He founded Cor Strategies—Illinois' largest center-right political company—along with EmpowerPolitics and Long9 Studio, bringing proven methods from nearly 1,200 campaigns and organizations to training engagements.
Whether you need to learn the ins and outs of effective messaging, understand how to campaign in battleground districts, or develop winning strategies for your cause, Collin's real-world experience and proven track record make him the ideal trainer for your team.
