Marcia Conner

Marcia works with senior leaders in the world's largest companies to put collaborative technologies into action. Because today's challenges are too big for individuals or organizations to solve alone, Marcia aligns social strategies with corporate culture to speed innovation, inform decision-making, and invigorate an organization’s value chain. Research topics often address real-time communication, internal social networks, microsharing for macro results, multi-generation business culture, information management for agile learning, and leadership preparedness. She is co-author of The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media and author of the popular Fast Company column “Learn at All Levels.” Former Vice President and Information Futurist at PeopleSoft and Worldwide Manager at Microsoft, she is a Fellow of the Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business.