Marcia Conner consults with the largest corporations in the world, aligning corporate culture with social business tools to speed innovation, inform decision-making, and invigorate an organization’s value chain. The collaborative tools Marcia uses introduce ideas in quick bursts, in the flow of work, equipping people to tap the collective brainpower of the larger community in extraordinary ways.
In every engagement, Marcia overcomes resistance with analytics and fact-based examples of success. She has personally confronted and overcome the pressure-filled responsibilities senior leaders face, bringing to bear the agility and advantages of social technologies.
Clients span industries and markets including business-to-business, business-to-consumer, financial services, professional services, technology, telecommunications, and national intelligence. Research topics often address internal social networks, multi-generation business culture, human capital management, the future of corporate education, and leadership preparedness.
She is a fellow of the Darden School of Business, member of Telefónica’s Innovation Council, and writes for Fast Company. She has been quoted on the BBC, in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and World News This Morning. She was Vice President and Information Futurist at PeopleSoft, Worldwide Manager at Microsoft, and was instrumental in taking a company public in 1995.
Marcia has published three books, the most recent being The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media. She is currently working on a new book about human ingenuity for organizational transformation.
Marcia’s from St. Louis, Missouri and attended college in four countries, on three continents. She currently lives between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Allegheny Mountains in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley (or on an airplane, depending on the day of the week). Keeping her grounded are a mediocre tennis game, memories of whitewater canoe racing, fantasies of being a triathlete, her husband Karl (a 2nd-career tennis pro) and her curious insightful son, Clarke.
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Marcia Conner is an internationally recognized advisor to the world's largest organizations reinventing themselves and their workforce for the future.
