Jay Cross

Current

Chief Scientist at Internet Time Group LLC

Past

Convener at togetherLearn
CEO at eLearning Forum
Senior Marketing Advisor at SmartForce

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Education

Harvard Business School
Princeton University

Recommended

5 people have recommended Jay

Connections

297 connections

Industry

Professional Training & Coaching

Jay Cross’s Summary

Jay Cross has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix thirty years ago. “I am dedicated to making people more effective in their work and happy in their lives,” says Jay. “My calling is to change the world by helping people learn to learn.”

Jay co-authored the landmark book Implementing eLearning, founded Internet Time Group, served as CEO of eLearning Forum for its first five years, and writes a column on effectiveness for CLO magazine.

He is the author of Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance (Pfeiffer, October 2006) and Learnscaping (2008). An internationally acclaimed strategist, speaker, and designer of corporate learning and performance systems, Jay is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School.

Jay and his wife Uta live with two miniature longhaired dachshunds in the hills of Berkeley, California. Jay was born in Hope, Arkansas, (same room as Bill Clinton) and grew up in Virginia, France, Texas, Rhode Island, and Germany.

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Associated with Institute for Professional Development, University of Phoenix, Diversified Corporate Loans, Omega Performance, Oral History Associates, NCR, UNIVAC, U.S. Army Europe (USAREUR), QD Systems, Versatrac. NTL, Center for Creative Leadership. St. George's School. Paris American High School.

Jay Cross’s Specialties:

Designing, marketing, publicity, doing deals, selling, introducing new products and concepts.Planning, writing, prototyping, ...I'm an obsessive creative generalist and business artist.

Jay Cross’s Experience

Chief Scientist

Internet Time Group LLC

(Research industry)

April 1998 — Present (11 years 8 months)

Designer, strategic marketer, authority on learning, promoter, information architect, author, conceptual artist, presenter, leader, generalist, photographer, lifelong learner, blogger, mover, shaker.
Convener

togetherLearn

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

We are mashing up web 2.0 and informal learning.
CEO

eLearning Forum

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

January 2000 — September 2005 (5 years 9 months)

Helped lead and grow non-profit advocacy group at the intersection of learning and technology.
Senior Marketing Advisor

SmartForce

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; smf; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

April 1999 — June 2001 (2 years 3 months)