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Marcia Conner
Vice President for Enterprise, Pistachio Consulting
Marcia Conner works at
the intersection of enterprise social messaging and workplace learning,
focused on the trends, markets and dynamics shaping a distributed, collaborative and multi-generational organizational culture. Former Vice President and Information Futurist for PeopleSoft, coauthor of
Creating a Learning Culture: Strategy, Practice & Technology,
cocreator of Pistachio Consulting's
Enterprise Microsharing Comparison, she writes the
Fast Company column
Learn At All Levels.
She is a fellow of the Society for New Communications Research and the Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business. She offers an insider's perspective on the fields of enterprise technology, online community building, social networking, human capital development, distributed leadership and cognitive design. Her latest book, The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media, will be out in May 2010.
As an advisor to
public and private sector organizations, she leverages her experience operating high-speed
organizations to spur personal and professional growth. She has
served Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield, IBM Lotus, Central Intelligence Agency, FedEx, the Gap, Verizon Wireless, American Express, The Home
Depot,
WD-40, CARE, SocialText and other global employers.
As a keynote speaker,
Marcia talks with groups throughout the United States and abroad on
turning social media and learning into competitive advantage,
microsharing for macroresults, overcoming organizational learning
disabilities, catalyzing the new digital learning style, and aligning
education with dynamic business goals.
As a thought-leader, Marcia's learning and
leadership columns reach millions of readers in print and online. She
authored
Learn More Now: 10 Simple Steps to Learning Better, Smarter & Faster (John Wiley & Sons, 2004), cocreated
Creating a Learning Culture with Jim Clawson
(Cambridge University Press, 2004) and contributes to
dozens of publications including
Leading Organizational Learning (Jossey-Bass/Leader to Leader
Foundation, 2004) and
Engaging Learning forward (Pfeiffer, 2005). The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media, will be out in May 2010 from ASTD & Berrett-Koehler. She has been quoted in
the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune,
CIO Magazine, PCWeek, Information Week,
Business 2.0 and has appeared on ABC
World News This Morning.
When PeopleSoft hired
Marcia to integrate technology and learning across the
enterprise, she grew Education to become the fourth most
profitable learning organization in the world. She 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 satisfaction ratings by 30%.
She founded the ERP industry's first usability center, and was responsible for the design strategy, user experience and
learnability for PeopleSoft's
R& D project code-named Disruptive.com, innovating next-generation
enterprise software and online service business communities in the PeopleSoft Business Network (PSBN).
Learning in the New Economy magazine, which Marcia 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, she developed the company's first new
employee training program, accelerating employee readiness from
6-months to 6-weeks. Her training organization delivered classes to
thousands of employees in under a year.
She is a fellow of the
Batten Institute at the Darden Graduate School of Business
at the University of Virginia, a Fellow of the
Society for New Communications Research, co-founder of the Learnativity Alliance, develops
leadership programs for women worldwide and volunteers her time to
talk with teachers and parents about creative solutions for children who
have learning disabilities.
She has lived and worked on
three continents, and currently lives on a 50-acre homestead in
Virginia's Shenandoah Valley with her husband
Karl Conner and their son
Clarke. On Twitter, she is @marciamarcia.
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