Mr. Manville is Executive Vice President of the United Way of America, and Director of its new 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. Critical to this strategy is developing a system-wide, integrated approach to the management and development of ideas, knowledge and human capital—the purpose of the Center.

Prior to joining the United Way of America, Mr. Manville 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, Mr. Manville was responsible for Saba’s thought leadership, customer communities, advisory groups, organizational development and several external strategic initiatives. Before that, Mr. Manville was a partner at McKinsey & Co, specializing in organizational development and knowledge-related strategy.  At McKinsey, Mr. Manville 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. Mr. Manville was profiled by Tom Peters in his 1991 book Liberation Management, and in Fast Company and Knowledge Management magazines. He is the author of pioneering articles on organizational learning and knowledge management in Fast Company, Datamation, The Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, and industry publications such as Knowledge Management Review. He is also the author (with Josiah Ober) of A Company of Citizens: What the World’s First Democracy Teaches Leaders About Creating Great Organizations (Harvard Business School Press, 2003). He speaks frequently at conferences and industry groups on these and related topics.

Mr. Manville's earlier professional career was a mix of technology, communications, and education. Trained as a historian, Mr. Manville 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, including The Origin of Athenian Citizenship (Princeton University Press 1999). 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. Mr. Manville holds a Ph.D. in history from Yale (1979) and undergraduate degrees in classics from Oxford(1975)  and Yale (1972).