Dr. Marilyn Herie PhD RSW is the Vice President Academic and Chief learning Officer at Centennial College in Toronto, Canada, with an academic cross-appointment as Assistant Professor (Status Only), University of Toronto Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work. Her past roles include Dean of Learning, Teaching and Scholarship, and Academic Chair Department of Community Services, at Centennial College; Director of the of the Collaborative Program in Addiction Studies at the University of Toronto; and Project Director/Advanced Practice Clinician at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). She is a member of the international Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) with over 15 years of clinical practice and supervision in addictions/concurrent disorders treatment with individuals and groups. Dr. Herie has published widely on evidence-based practice approaches, and her areas of interest include motivational interviewing and health behaviour change, elearning and classroom teaching, interprofessional education research and evaluation, and social media. She blogs about education and teaching-related topics at www.educateria.com.
Dr. Herie is a dynamic and in-demand keynote speaker and clinical educator.