Dr. Laurence D. Martel
Dr. Laurence D. Martel, president of Integrative Learning Systems and the nonprofit National Academy of Integrative Learning, Inc., is perhaps the nation’s leading developer of research and systems for the study of learning and retention outside the context of traditional education. Dr. Martel served as a division head faculty member at Syracuse University for 20 years prior to launching the National Academy of Integrative Learning, Inc.
From 1987 until 1990 he was director of the Center for the Study of Learning and Retention at Syracuse University, disseminating the only U.S. Department of Education-endorsed system for reducing attrition in higher education. Dr.
Martel is a senior faculty member serving universities at the graduate level in education and business, and is the author of more than 20 major academic publications with an orientation toward advanced learning methods, including School Success: The Inside Story, which he co-authored. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy of education in 1979 from Syracuse University.
