President Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton was the first Democratic president in six decades to be elected twice – first in 1992 and then in 1996. Under his leadership, the country enjoyed the strongest economy in a generation and the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, including the creation of more than 22 million jobs.

After leaving the White House, President Clinton established the William J. Clinton Foundation with the mission to strengthen the capacity of people in the United States and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence. Read More...

John Lithgow

Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe Award Winner John Lithgow brings his critically acclaimed show, Stories By Heart to Elliott Masie’s Learning 2011 for a special performance and keynote interview on the “Power of Storytelling” on Tuesday, November 8th in Orlando, Florida.

For one very special evening, Elliott Masie’s Learning 2011 is proud to present the extraordinary John Lithgow in his one-man theatrical memoir, STORIES BY HEART.  Earlier in the day, Elliott Masie will interview John Lithgow, an an Actor’s Workshop style format, on the “Power of Storytelling”, a key competency in the ever evolving field of Learning. Read More...

Dean Kamen

As an inventor and physicist, Dean Kamen has dedicated his life to developing technologies that help people lead better lives. As an inventor, he holds more than 440 U.S. and foreign patents, many of them for innovative medical devices that have expanded the frontiers of health care worldwide. While still a college undergraduate, he invented the automatic, self-contained ambulatory pump designed to deliver precise doses of medication to patients with a variety of medical conditions. In 1976 he founded AutoSyringe, Inc., to manufacture and market the pumps. At age 30, he sold that company to Baxter International Corporation. By then, he had developed a number of other infusion devices, including the first wearable insulin pump for diabetics. Following the sale of AutoSyringe, Inc., he founded DEKA Research & Development Corporation to develop internally generated inventions, as well as to provide R&D for major corporate clients. Read More...

Elliott Masie

Elliott Masie is the Host of Learning2011 and the Chair of The Learning CONSORTIUM. He is an internationally recognized futurist, analyst, researcher and organizer on the critical topics of learning, technology, leadership and workplace productivity. He is the editor of Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie, an Internet newsletter read by over 55,000 business executives worldwide, and a regular columnist in professional publications. He heads The MASIE Center, a Saratoga Springs, NY think tank focused on how organizations can support learning and knowledge within the workforce. Read More...

Ken Zolot

Ken Zolot, MIT School of Engineering, is one of the leading thinkers on developing entrepreneurial thinking INSIDE organizations.  Ken will be addressing the opportunities for the Learning Functions in organizations to both operate more entrepreneurially and to nurture that quality throughout the organization – with skills and culture shifts.
In 2009, Ken was named a Senior Fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, to advise the Foundation on its new initiative "Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation". Read More...
 

Peter Cappelli

Dr. Diana G. Oblinger

We are really honored to have Dr. Diana G. Oblinger, President and CEO of EDUCAUSE, as one of our keynoters at Learning 2011.  Educause is the nonprofit association, with 2,300 colleges and universities as members, whose mission is to advance higher education through the use of technology.  She will be sharing research on the changing nature of the learner – soon to worker in our organizations.  In addition, Diana and Elliott will dialogue about the ways in which the corporate learning world can collaborate with our counterparts, leading learning technology in higher education.  How can we advance the world of learning and technology together? Read More...

 Catherine M. Casserly

Catherine M. Casserly is CEO of Creative Commons. Cathy’s career is dedicated to openness, and particularly to leveraging possibilities at the boundaries of formal and informal learning to equalize educational opportunity. She has been a long-time advocate of open educational resources (OER). As the Director of the OER Initiative at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation she managed investments totaling more than $100 million to harness the efficiency and effectiveness of knowledge sharing worldwide.Read More...

Sharon Begley

Sharon Begley was the science columnist of Newsweek from 2007 to 2011 and the science editor from 2009 to 2011; she now contributes stories to Newsweek and other publications on genetics, neuroscience, psychology, biomedical research, astronomy, physics, cosmology, climate and other sciences. From 2002 to 2007 she was the science columnist at The Wall Street Journal, writing “Science Journal.” Read More...

Dr. Tristan Denley

Dr Tristan Denley has served as Provost and Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs since January 2009. Originally from Penzance, England, Dr Denley earned his PhD from Trinity College Cambridge, and held positions at the University of Umea Sweden, the University of Waterloo Canada and the University of Mississippi before coming to Austin Peay. At Ole Miss he served as Chair of Mathematics, before assuming the role of Senior Fellow of their Residential College. His mathematical research interests include Graph Theory and Combinatorics. Read More...

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