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Brook Manville is Executive Vice President of the United Way of America and Director of its Center for Community Leadership. In this role, he is helping to lead system-wide transformation of the United Way around a new strategy of achieving community impact.
Prior to joining the United Way of America, Brook was Chief Learning Officer and Customer Evangelist of Saba, a Silicon Valley company that is the leading provider of e-learning (internet-delivered educational) infrastructure and human capital management solutions. At Saba, Brook was responsible for Saba’s thought leadership, customer communities, advisory groups, organizational development and several external strategic initiatives. Before that, Brook was a partner at McKinsey & Co, specializing in organizational development and knowledge-related strategy. At McKinsey, Brook consulted to several Fortune 500 companies in these areas, and also helped lead McKinsey's original knowledge management program. He was also McKinsey's first Director of Knowledge Management, as well as their CIO between 1991 and 1994.
Brook's earlier professional career was a mix of technology, communications, and education. Trained as a historian, Brook was originally on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University (Chicago), an award-winning teacher and author of several academic publications in the field of history. He later worked as a free- lance journalist and subsequently as a business/technology analyst at CBS, Inc. He also helped launch the first online medical information service for physicians in the mid 1980s, in a start-up company called Colleague. Brook holds a Ph.D. in history from Yale (1979) and undergraduate degrees in classics from Oxford (1975) and Yale (1972). | 