General Sessions
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Marcia L. Conner Lead Enterprise Analyst, Pistachio Consulting |
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Marcia L. Conner works at the intersection of social messaging and workplace learning, focusing on the trends, markets and dynamics shaping a distributed and collaborative business culture. A former Fortune 500 learning chief, 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 offers an insider's perspective on the fields of enterprise technology, corporate community building, social networking, HR, human capital development, distributed leadership and cognitive design.
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 FedEx, the Gap, Verizon Wireless, American Express, The Home Depot, Mars, WD-40, CARE, SocialText and other global employers.
As a thought-leader, Marcia's learning and leadership columns reach millions of readers in print and online. She authored Learn More Now (John Wiley & Sons, 2004), co-created 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). 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.
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 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. Learn more @marciamarcia.
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Tony Bingham President and CEO, ASTD |
As the world’s largest association dedicated to workplace learning and performance professionals, the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) is at the forefront of trends in learning and workforce development. Led by President and CEO, Tony Bingham, ASTD offers programs and services to help members improve individual and organizational performance through learning.
Tony is the co-author of Presenting Learning released in April 2007. Through stories and case studies, he and co-author Tony Jeary offer powerful lessons to help learning professionals articulate the business case for learning more persuasively, position themselves as a strategic partner, and communicate a compelling story about the impact of learning on business results.
Together with the Board of Directors and supported by a staff of more than 100 and wide volunteer network, Tony is focused on helping members lead talent management in their organizations, build their business skills, understand the profession’s role in narrowing skills gaps, and connect their work to the strategic priorities of business.
With broad-based business, financial, operational, and technical management expertise, Tony joined ASTD in 2001 as the Chief Operating Officer / Chief Information Officer. He became President and CEO in February 2004.
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Rich Hilleman Electronic Arts |
Richard Hilleman has touched nearly every category and job title since he first began in the video game industry over 20 years ago. From writing copy protection utilities, to soldering cables, to designing and building hundreds of Racetracks, and to settling Labor Actions on movie sets, he has tried nearly everything. Perhaps best known for his early design and production work on the EA Sports staples such as John Madden Football and NHL Hockey, he has also made twenty fantasy role-playing, military, and action games.
Currently, he works in the internal University at Electronic Arts on specialized education for Producers and Development Directors. He has two children, Christopher and Rachel.
