McDonough Leadership

Organizers of the inaugural Entrepreneurship Expo, which will be held on the Marietta College campus on Sept. 17, are pleased to announce the three keynote speakers — Seth Meinzen ’04, Todd Gehrmann and Julie Wilkes ’98.

Doug Griebel ’74, a highly accomplished entrepreneur and senior executive, has been named Marietta College’s 2019-20 Fitzgerald Executive-in-Residence. Griebel is chairman and co-founder of RM Hospitality Group Inc. in New York City.

Mark Hamlin, Ohio Department of Commerce’s Senior Policy Advisor, will be conducting the third Leadership Q&A of the fall semester at 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 14th, in the Alma McDonough Auditorium. The Q&A is free and open to the public. Hamlin joined the Department of Commerce in March 2018 and is tasked with helping to...

Marietta College’s Samantha Welch ’18 (Ennis, Montana) will join a distinguished group of McDonough Scholars who have participated in the University of Richmond’s Jepson Cambridge Program. Marietta has been sending students to the five-week summer program to study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, for nearly a decade.

William Spriggs, a chief economist with the AFL-CIO, is the first of three speakers scheduled for the Fall 2018 Economic Roundtable of the Ohio Valley. Spriggs will speak about “All of Us or None of Us: The Political Economic Challenge of Inequality,” at noon, Tuesday, September 11th, at the Marietta Country Club.

  Six Marietta College students were recently named 2015-16 J. Luce Fellows by the James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation.

As Matthew Johnson ’18 (Marietta, Ohio) prepares to earn his Bachelor of Arts in both International Leadership and Political Science during Sunday’s (May 6) Commencement ceremony at Marietta College, the Warren High School graduate received an early gift.

Marietta College will be host to a weekend of presentations, workshops, dialogues and more about the field of leadership as it relates to diverse topics on April 10-11.

Eric Ellis, President and CEO of Integrity Development Corporation, is giving the keynote address at the World Pac Paper Leadership Lecture Series at 1 p.m., Friday, April 6, in the Alma McDonough Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public and is part of Marietta College’s ninth annual McDonough Leadership Conference.

As a freshman, Taylor Landrie ’13 (Fredericksburg, Va.) was thrilled to help organize a campus-based conference for the McDonough Leadership Program.

For three McDonough Leadership scholars, the spring semester will begin like normal, but after just one week of classes, they will depart campus again, not for home but for Annapolis, Maryland, where the 2018 The U.S. Naval Academy Leadership Conference is being held from Jan. 21-24.

Elbowing their way out of what was once a forum for friends to talk about weekend plans, today’s social networking sites have transformed into tools that colleges are using to recruit new students, heighten the educational experience of current students and to bring alumni back into the fold.

Dr. Alexandra Perry, Clinical Ethicist at INTEGRIS Health in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has been named the 2017-18 Fitzgerald Executive-in-Residence (EIR) at Marietta College’s McDonough Center for Leadership and Business. Perry, who taught at the McDonough Center from 2013-15, will focus her EIR project on “Ethical Issues in Healthcare.”

The fact that so many men, women and children go hungry on a regular basis in this community has weighed on the mind of Amanda Dever since she came to Marietta at the beginning of the fall semester.

Following the theme, “Leadership Through Time,” historic leadership and leadership across generations will be just some of the topics discussed at this year’s McDonough Leadership Conference, being held from Friday, March 31st through Saturday, April 1st. While some will actually present their research posters or facilitate discussion...

Interested in discussing Cuba after Castro? Or maybe you want to brainstorm with others about energy and the global economy. Then the 2009 Great Decisions Series at Marietta College's McDonough Center for Leadership and Business may be something to consider this winter. McDonough is co-sponsoring the fourth annual series with the Marietta...

Jenn Klein, President of the Ohio Chemistry Technology Council (OCTC), is scheduled to discuss “Chemistry: The Science Behind Ohio’s Economic Success,” at the Economic Roundtable of the Ohio Valley at noon, Monday, February 14th, at the Marietta Country Country Club. OCTC is the leading advocate for Ohio’s chemical industry, the sixth...

Following a successful inaugural run, The McDonough Center for Leadership and Business, along with the Marietta Branch of The American Association of University Women (AAUW), is once again hosting a six-week educational program titled, The Great Decisions Series 2007. Great Decisions, which is designed to enrich the international...

Marietta College’s Matthew Johnson ’19 (Marietta, Ohio) has wanted to be an attorney since junior high. Johnson, along with fellow McDonough Scholars Makenzie McAfee ’19 (Findlay, Ohio) and Emily Vigue ’19 (Lancaster, Ohio), will get an early glimpse of law school as they have been selected to participate in the University of Richmond’s...

For the past decade, participating in Make a Difference Day has become as much a tradition on the Marietta College campus as Homecoming and the Late Night Breakfast. More than 100 students are expected to participate again this year. The national Make a Difference Day campaign, which started in 1992, is on Saturday, October 22nd.

Marietta College’s Hannah Garofalo ’21 (Leetonia, Ohio), who is majoring in Marketing, has earned the prestigious Stickell Honors Scholarship and it offers her the opportunity to work as an intern for an Austin, Texas, advertising firm this summer.  Just 20 students were chosen as 2020 Stickell Honors Student Interns nationwide. It’s a 10-...

Dr. Jacqueline Khorassani, Chair & Professor of Economics/Director of Entrepreneurship Programs at Marietta College, has announced Perry & Associates, Certified Public Accountants, as the Platinum Sponsor for the first Mid-Ohio Valley Entrepreneur Expo scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 17, at Marietta College.  

The temperature outside Monday morning was barely above 0, but that didn’t keep droves of Pioneers from showing up at The Gathering Place to start a morning filled with service and reflection to honor the works of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. From filling “GoPacks” with healthy food that will help nourish local school children...

Dwight Smith, President and CEO of Sophisticated Systems, Inc., will be conducting the second Leadership Q&A of the fall semester at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, October 16th, in the McDonough Center’s Third-Floor Gallery. The Q&A is free and open to the public. Smith has nearly 40 years of experience in the IT industry and founded...

Marietta College’s McDonough Center for Leadership and Business is sponsoring three students to attend the United States Naval Academy’s Leadership Conference from Jan. 24-27.