I work at the intersection of social media and learning to increase organizational IQ. A former Fortune 500 learning VP and author of Creating a Learning Culture, I am managing director of Ageless Learner and write the Fast Company expert blog Learn At All Levels. I have a gift for assessing what people can do...
I work at the intersection of social media and learning to increase organizational IQ. A former Fortune 500 learning VP and author of Creating a Learning Culture, I am managing director of Ageless Learner and write the Fast Company expert blog Learn At All Levels. I have a gift for assessing what people can do today and preparing them to do more tomorrow.
As an advisor to corporations, I leverage my experience operating high-speed learning and leadership development organizations to consult with employers just starting up and multi-nationals entering the fast lane. Using social media, nimble enterprise tools and my own brand of learning assessments, I establish an organization-wide education engine to spur and support growth. I have served FedEx, the Gap, Verizon Wireless, American Express, The Home Depot, Mars, WD-40, CARE and other global employers.
As a keynote speaker, I talk with groups throughout the United States and abroad on turning social media and learning into competitive advantage, catalyzing the new and open learning style, overcoming organizational learning disabilities, and aligning education with dynamic business goals. I have been a featured speaker for The Conference Board, Internet World, the Brookings Institution, the US Intelligence Community and ABC World News This Morning.
As a thought-leader, my columns reach millions of readers in print and online. In addition to Creating a Learning Culture: Strategy, Technology and Practice (Cambridge, 2004), I wrote Learn More Now: 10 Simple Steps to Learning Better, Smarter and Faster (John Wiley & Sons, 2004) and have written for many other publications including Leading Organizational Learning (Jossey-Bass/Leader to Leader Foundation, 2004) and wrote the forward to Engaging Learning: Designing E-Learning Simulation Games by Clark N. Quinn (Pfeiffer, 2005).
When PeopleSoft hired me to integrate technology and learning across the enterprise, I grew the Education function to become the fourth most profitable learning organization in the world. I built programs including PeopleSoft University to support 100% annual sales growth through client, business partners and employee training. These efforts increased revenues by $26 million and customer-sat ratings by 30%. I was also responsible for the design strategy, user experience and learnability for the PeopleSoft Business Network (PSBN) and PeopleSoft's R&D project code-name Disruptive.com, innovating next-generation enterprise software and online service business communities.
Learning in the New Economy magazine, which I co-founded and led as editor-in-chief, gained a loyal readership of 250,000 C-level business leaders. The magazine received acclaim from The Wall Street Journal, Business 2.0 and Fortune for making learning a hot topic among executives.
At Microsoft, I developed the company's first new employee training program, accelerating employee readiness from 6-months to 6-weeks. My training organization delivered classes to thousands of employees each year.
I co-founder the Learnativity Alliance, develop leadership programs for women worldwide and am a fellow of the Batten Institute at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, focusing on learning culture. I volunteer my time to talk with teachers and parents about creative solutions for children who have learning disabilities.
I has lived and worked on three continents, and currently live on a 50-acre homestead in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley with my husband Karl and son Clarke.
Learn more at www.marciaconner.com.
Always learning, learning all ways.
Managing Director, Ageless Learner
Private, Education / Training industryVice President, PeopleSoft (PSFT)
Public, 5000+ employees, Technology / Computers industryDirector, Wave Technologies (WAVT)
Public, 101-500 employees, Education / Training industrySr. Manager, Worldwide Training, Microsoft (MSFT)
Public, 5000+ employees, Technology / Computers industryEditor in Chief, Learning in the New Economy magazine
Private, 21-50 employees, Arts / Entertainment / Media industryDarden Graduate School of Business Administration (Batten Fellow), Virginia, United States
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Earlham College, Indiana, United States
Marcia Conner works at the intersection of social media and learning. The author of Learn More Now and Creating a Learning Culture spent years inside fast companies reinventing corporate education and social systems that help people connect. She offers approaches for learning smarter and developing organizations which produce more energy than they consume.
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