--- title: ELB Learning | Kasey May description: Kasey May is the content marketing manager at ELB Learning. She is a self-professed nerd fueled by a healthy curiosity that spans almost any subject matter. She is a corporate storyteller, strategist, and organizational mastermind with decades of experience. Her conversational writing style breathes life and humanity into everything she pens, and she has a special knack for transforming highly technical content into easy-to-digest material. Kasey is a lover of the Almighty, well-wielded words, tight harmony, titillating conversation, potatoes, a clean house, thoughtfulness, and the Oxford comma. --- [![ELB-Learning_Logo_ColorRGB-3](https://blog.elblearning.com/hubfs/ELB-Learning_Logo_ColorRGB-3.png) ](https://elblearning.com/) ![Kasey May](https://blog.elblearning.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Kasey%20May%20-%20orange%20BG.png?width=200&name=Kasey%20May%20-%20orange%20BG.png) # Kasey May Kasey May is the content marketing manager at ELB Learning. She is a self-professed nerd fueled by a healthy curiosity that spans almost any subject matter. She is a corporate storyteller, strategist, and organizational mastermind with decades of experience. Her conversational writing style breathes life and humanity into everything she pens, and she has a special knack for transforming highly technical content into easy-to-digest material. Kasey is a lover of the Almighty, well-wielded words, tight harmony, titillating conversation, potatoes, a clean house, thoughtfulness, and the Oxford comma. 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