Leadership instructor and author Pete DeLisle, PhD, introduces her in the executive education classroom as a renaissance woman.

Her writing, speaking and music is threaded with her eclectic interests. Vickie challenges audiences to record life experiences, so the opportunity to reflect and learn from the journey is an option. It's through her own journaling and writing that she takes readers and audience members on paths of reflection that include laughter, tears and rich conversation.

Vickie's many interests stem from the variety of activities she pursued in her youth. At age 3, she was memorizing songs from the record album I Do, I Do, that her parents received on their 25th wedding anniversary. She had a quest to be selected for the Paul Dixon "Paul Baby" Show. At 4, she was riding her first pony, Sugar Foot, and following her parents and much older sisters, to their wide variety of activities. With the many positive influences and role models around her during her growing-up years, author, Vickie J. Maris, developed an incessant drive for learning.

During her career she has been in communications, sales and marketing, business development and learning experience design roles in both corporate America and in higher education. She keeps current on uses of social media in marketing and in online learning and teaches on social media engagement.

She is a keynote speaker, instructor, podcast host, and provides coaching and strategy sessions around the topics of digital transition of content, voice search marketing and social media engagement

Vickie is also a singer, songwriter and recording artist alongside her husband, entertainer Scott Greeson.

On the farm, Vickie has raised and trained Connemara ponies and llamas for decades. She coaches youth in the training of llamas for obstacle course and pack classes, and plays music in her church’s worship band. She is an advocate through Compassion International for children in developing countries.

Vickie holds a bachelor’s degree in agricultural communications and a master’s degree in learning design and technology. She is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt in business process quality and also holds a certificate in digital marketing.

You can subscribe to Vickie's podcasts, Agile Digital Business and Virtual Learning Tours, to hear more about her experiences in business, and particularly in digital delivery of content - in her show - Agile Digital Business (formerly Online Course Connections); and her adventures in music and life on a llama and pony farm, along with audio clips of her interviews with her mom and dad about their life during World War II - Virtual Learning Tours (formerly Heartsong Fit).

Visit her site, vickiemaris.com to learn more, or subscribe to her shows through your favorite podcast directory.