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Marcia Conner

Managing Director
Ageless Learner
United States

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Professional History:

  • Managing Director, Ageless Learner
  • Vice President, PeopleSoft
  • Director, Wave Technologies

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Marcia L. Conner is managing director of Ageless Learner, a global consultancy focused on learning across the lifespan. She has 19 years experience specializing in adult education, cognitive development, elearning, social and human capital, talent management, distributed leadership, experiential education, learning disabilities, learning styles, and school reform. She serves as senior counsel to corporations, s...

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Bio

Marcia L. Conner is managing director of Ageless Learner, a global consultancy focused on learning across the lifespan. She has 19 years experience specializing in adult education, cognitive development, elearning, social and human capital, talent management, distributed leadership, experiential education, learning disabilities, learning styles, and school reform. She serves as senior counsel to corporations, schools, associations, governments and non-governmental organizations. Conner served as VP of Education Services for PeopleSoft, launching PeopleSoft University, PeopleSoft Press, and the first usability department in the ERP industry. She was a senior training manager for Microsoft and helped take a company public in 1995. She co-authored Creating a Learning Culture: Strategy, Technology, and Practices and wrote Learn More Now.

Conner teaches classes on creating new forms of organization, develops leadership development and coaching programs for women worldwide, and is a fellow of the Batten Institute at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia.

She is a frequent contributor to the Fast Company Expert Blog "Learn at All Levels" and "Live Laugh Learn Lead" on her website, www.marciaconner.com.

 

Personal slogan or motto

Always learning, learning all ways.

Areas of expertise

Adult education, cognitive development, elearning, social capital and human capital, organizational culture, talent management, distributed leadership, lifelong learning, learning disabilities, learning styles, and school reform.

Personal Website/Blog URL

http://www.marciaconner.com

Public Profile

www.fastcompany.com/user/209

Professional History

Managing Director, Ageless Learner

Vice President, PeopleSoft

Director, Wave Technologies

Manager, Microsoft

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Member Blog | 1 recommendation | April 27, 2008 8:43 pm
Many of my colleagues recently attended the Web2.0Expo in San Francisco. From over 2K miles away I followed those twittering the...
Member Blog | 0 recommendations | April 14, 2008 9:19 am
Are you looking for my older Learning Resources columns or Learning at All Levels expert blog posts? While the Fast Company site is being upgraded, much of my content is on a server that's...
Member Blog | 1 recommendation | April 06, 2008 7:50 pm
A woman, who as a girl in gradeschool taunted me enthusiastically, contacted me through a social network site asking if I planned to attend an upcoming reunion. At first I didn't think...
Member Blog | 3 recommendations | March 30, 2008 8:26 pm
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Marcia Conner, author of Learn More Now and Creating a Learning Culture, spent years inside fast companies reinventing corporate education. She offers approaches for learning smarter and developing organizations which produce more energy than they consume.

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Is charity social responsibility? After years helping businesses become more profitable, I've found myself waist deep in helping businesses get onboard the social responsibility...
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