Marcia Conner

Current

• Senior Enterprise Strategist at Pistachio Consulting

Past

• Managing Director and Chief Learning Officer at Ageless Learner
• Editor in Chief at Learning in the New Economy magazine
• Vice President of Education Services and Information Futurist at PeopleSoft, Inc.

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Marcia Conner’s Summary

I work at the intersection of social messaging and workplace learning, focusing on the trends, markets and dynamics shaping a distributed and collaborative business culture. A former Fortune 500 learning chief, coauthor of Creating a Learning Culture: Strategy, Practice & Technology and cocreator of Pistachio Consulting's Enterprise Microsharing Comparison, I write the Fast Company expert blog Learn At All Levels.

As an advisor to public and private sector organizations, I offer an insider's perspective on the fields of enterprise technology, corporate community building, social networking, HR, human capital development, distributed leadership and cognitive design. I have served FedEx, the Gap, Verizon Wireless, American Express, UNDP, The Home Depot, NIMH, Microsoft, Sun, WD-40, CARE, Socialtext and other global employers.

As a keynote speaker, I focus on turning social media and learning into competitive advantage, microsharing for macro results, overcoming organizational learning disabilities, catalyzing the new digital learning style, and aligning education with dynamic business goals. I have been featured by 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 (Cambridge, 2004), I wrote Learn More Now (Wiley, 2004) and contributed to Leading Organizational Learning (Jossey-Bass/Leader to Leader Foundation, 2004). I have been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, CIO Magazine, PCWeek, Information Week, Business 2.0 and more.

I am a fellow of the Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and a 2009 Fellow of the Society for New Communitions Research. I have 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.