Georgia Harrison
Online abuse, image-based exploitation and deepfake content have moved from a private safeguarding issue into a workplace and reputational one. Employers, schools and public bodies are now expected to take a position, equip their people, and respond when staff or customers are harmed. Most still have no language for the conversation, no policy that matches the technology, and no first-hand voice to anchor a credible internal programme.
Georgia Harrison MBE is a campaigner and broadcaster whose work changed UK law on intimate image abuse and now helps organisations talk credibly to their people about online safety, consent and personal resilience.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Georgia Harrison
- A first-hand voice on intimate image abuse with a direct line to legislative outcome. Her decision to waive anonymity during the Stephen Bear prosecution and her work with government produced amendments inside the Online Safety Act 2023, which is rare evidence of citizen campaigning translating into statute.
- Credibility with the people most affected. Harrison reaches young employees, customers, students and frontline staff in a register a senior policy speaker cannot match, which matters for internal wellbeing programmes, customer-facing safeguarding training and brand purpose work.
- Operational experience of consent and online safety campaigning. Named partnerships with Thames Valley Police (“Consent Conversations”) and Superdrug (“You before Yes”) give her a track record of building education programmes for adult and young-adult audiences.
- A working broadcaster and author on the subject. Her ITV documentaries Revenge Porn: Georgia vs Bear and Porn, Power, Profit, and her 2024 memoir Taking Back My Power, give the talk a body of public-facing work behind it rather than a single anecdote.
- A clear, current public profile. MBE recipient, BBC 100 Women 2023, Glamour Women of the Year 2023, which gives the booking external visibility and helps drive internal turnout.
Biography highlights
- MBE awarded in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours for services to the prevention of violence against women and girls and for campaigning on online privacy and cyber crime. First Love Island contestant to receive an MBE.
- Campaigning contributed to amendments to the Online Safety Act 2023 on intimate image abuse.
- Listed on BBC 100 Women 2023; Glamour Women of the Year 2023 (Activist Award).
- Author of Taking Back My Power (Dialogue / Hachette, 2024).
- Fronted ITV documentaries Revenge Porn: Georgia vs Bear (2023) and Georgia Harrison: Porn, Power, Profit (2025).
- Named campaigns with Thames Valley Police (“Consent Conversations”) and Superdrug (“You before Yes”); has interviewed Tony Blair, Sir Keir Starmer, Lord Hague and Sadiq Khan in policy interview work.
Biography
In December 2022 Stephen Bear was sentenced to 21 months in prison for voyeurism and for disclosing private sexual images. The complainant in that case had waived her anonymity to speak publicly. That decision turned a personal harm into the most-covered intimate image abuse prosecution in UK media and forced the issue out of the safeguarding column and into the policy column.
The campaigning that followed contributed to amendments inside the Online Safety Act 2023, including the move away from requiring prosecutors to prove an intent to cause distress. That is a substantive legislative outcome traceable to one person’s public testimony and to sustained work with government, the Crown Prosecution Service stakeholders and victim groups.
Georgia Harrison MBE has since built the public-facing apparatus around that work. Two ITV documentaries, Revenge Porn: Georgia vs Bear and Porn, Power, Profit, examined the legal and commercial mechanics of image-based abuse and the deepfake economy. Her 2024 memoir Taking Back My Power, published by Hachette’s Dialogue imprint, sets out the case story and the campaigning arc. Named partnerships with Thames Valley Police on consent education and with Superdrug on the “You before Yes” campaign extend the work into school and high-street audiences.
For corporate buyers, the value is specific. Boards, HR teams and customer-facing brands are being asked to take positions on online safety, deepfakes and consent that they were not asked to take five years ago. Harrison brings a lived voice on those issues that policy expertise alone cannot supply, alongside the public profile of an MBE, a BBC 100 Women listing and a Glamour Women of the Year award.
Key speaking topics
- Image-based sexual abuse and online safety
- Consent education and the workplace social contract
- Resilience after public trauma
- Reform of the Online Safety Act
- Deepfakes and the harms economy
- Personal advocacy and citizen campaigning
- Mental health and self-worth in the digital age
Ideal for
- HR, DEI and wellbeing leads building internal programmes on online safety, consent and respect at work
- Customer-facing brands with young adult audiences (retail, telco, social platforms, education providers)
- Schools, universities and police forces commissioning consent and digital safety education
- Internal women’s networks, ERG events and International Women’s Day platforms
Audience outcomes
- A clear account of how UK law on intimate image abuse changed and what is still unresolved
- A working vocabulary for talking about consent, image-based abuse and deepfakes inside an organisation
- A frank view of what online harm looks like from the receiving end, in language that lands with non-specialist audiences
- A direct example of how citizen advocacy turns into legislative change
- Renewed permission to take online safety seriously as a culture and wellbeing issue, not only a compliance one