Marcia L. Conner
Managing Director and Chief Learning Officer, Ageless Learner

Marcia Conner facilitates individual and organizational change to help people focus on what matters most. She is managing director of the Ageless Learner, a global consultancy focused on learning across the life span, and cofounder of the Learnativity Alliance, bringing people together to work at the intersection of learning, productivity, activity and creativity. She has 19 years experience specializing in adult education, cognitive development, elearning, social and human capital, talent management, distributed leadership, experiential education, organizational culture, learning styles, learning disabilities and school reform.

She serves as senior counsel to corporations, schools, associations, governments and non-governmental organizations. She 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.

Conner writes the Learn At All Levels expert blog for Fast Company magazine. She authored Learn More Now (John Wiley & Sons, 2004),  co-edited Creating a Learning Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and has contributed to dozens of other magazines and books including Leading Organizational Learning (Jossey-Bass/Leader to Leader Foundation, 2004) and Engaging Learning: Designing e-Learning Simulation Games forward (Pfeiffer, 2005).

Conner served as Vice President of Education Services for PeopleSoft, and had the role of Information Futurist and Chief Experience Designer for PeopleSoft’s community-based initiatives. Also, she launched PeopleSoft University and founded PeopleSoft Press as well as the User Experience Lab (the first usability department in the ERP industry). She was a senior training manager for Microsoft and helped take Wave Technologies public in 1995.

Conner has appeared on ABC World News This Morning, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Knowledge Management, Personnel Journal, Training Magazine, Means Business, Service News and Online Learning Magazine. She has spoken at events for organizations including The Conference Board, The Brookings Institution, Linkage, The Innovation Group, Learning Disabilities Association, Internet World, Library Directors’ Association, ASTD, ISPI, SHRM, Coach University, and the eLearning Forum. She has been interviewed on Business News Network and radio stations across the country.

She has lived and worked on three continents, is a whitewater kayaker and volunteers her time to talk with teachers and parents about creative solutions for children who have learning disabilities. She lives on a 50-acre homestead in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.

Learn more at www.marciaconner.com