Marcia Conner
Managing Director, Consultant, USA
Marcia Conner, former corporate executive, now dedicates her time to making the world a better place. She works with everyday people doing ingenious work and ordinary organizations reinventing themselves to work in inspiring ways. She has authored four books, including The New Social Learning: Connect, Collaborate, Work (2nd ed., ATD Press, June 2015). She was vice president of Education Services at PeopleSoft before founding the company’s design organization; ensuring training wasn’t needed to navigate a confusing user experience. She lead education strategy at Wave Technologies International, instrumental in taking the company public in 1994, and headed Worldwide Training at Microsoft in their early days. A SupporTED Mentor and fellow of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, she’s advised executives on employee, support partner, and customer communities in more than 30 companies in five countries.