Faculty and Administration Profiles

Dr. Marilyn Stocker

About

In addition to teaching at Loyola University Chicago, Dr. Marilyn Stocker is the Senior Program Director/Dean of General Education for Colorado Technical University, serving over 30,000 learners on line. She brings over 25 years of experience and insight to the real world challenges of educating adults in the workplace. With a doctorate in Organization Behavior and Adult Learning from Northwestern University, a Master’s in Leadership and Policy and an English and Literature major at Barnard College, she has been a boundary spanner between academic and business worlds. She was the co-founder, Dean and Vice Provost of Lifelong Learning at the School for New Learning at DePaul University, as well as Associate Dean for Executive Education at Loyola’s Quinlan School of Business. As a leadership consultant and executive coach for Fortune 100 and 500 firms, her client list includes Harpo Studios (Miss Oprah Winfrey’s media enterprises), BP Amoco, McDonald’s Corporation, News Corp, Allstate Insurance , the American Red Cross and the Shedd Aquarium. She taught in graduate school at Northwestern University for over 16 years and worked with Executive Education and Business and the Professions programs at the University of Chicago. Marilyn is the co-author of a forthcoming book called “It Still Requires Humans: Leadership and Technology.” Having worked in China, Japan, South America and Europe, she is a highly experienced consultant, educator and lecturer, who is passionate about leadership.

Program Areas

Leadership Development