Ellen D. Wagner is Director of Global Higher Education, Macromedia, Inc. ( www.macromedia.com ) where she helps shape the strategic directions of the company' s post-secondary education business. She is also a Director of the Learnativity Alliance ( www.learnativity.org ), a professional community that monitors and analyzes effective practices promoting the design, development and implementation of standards-based learning content, platforms, programs and tools.

Before joining Macromedia, Dr. Wagner was Chief Learning Officer for Viviance AG new education, a Swiss elearning company with offices in 12 European and North American countries. She was Chief Learning Officer and Vice President of Consulting Services with Informania, Inc. before its acquisition by Viviance AG.

Dr. Wagner's prior career as a tenured university professor and administrator featured positions as Chair of the Educational Technology Program at the University of Northern Colorado, as well as Academic Affairs Coordinator of Instructional and Research Technologies and Director of Western Institute for Distance Education. She was also Visiting Scholar and Project Director at the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunication, Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education.

Wagner's work has featured technology-based learning and performance improvement designs and implementations in numerous industries, including technology, finance, telecommunications, medical, and banking. She has wor k ed with such governmental organizations as the U.S. Department of Defense, the National Security Agency, The U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Ellen has designed and managed organization-wide reengineering, change management, and training programs for organizations including but not limited to the New York Stock Exchange, the Canadian Securities Institute, Wells Fargo Bank, US Bank Corporation, Dell Computer, Hewlett Packard, the Confederation of Norwegian Business and Industry, ABB, Norsk Hydro, the Western Governors University, Kaiser Permanente, Novell, Sun Microsystems, Volkswagen, US WEST (now Quest Communications), Nortel, and AT&T.

Her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology is from the University of Colorado , Boulder ; her MS and BA degrees were earned at the University of Wisconsin , Madison .