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Interim Dean, McDonough Center for Leadership and Business
Assistant Professor
Amy Elliott
Staff/Faculty
Faculty
Office #
McDonough 103
Degrees
Ph.D.-Clinical Hypnotherapy, American Pacific University (2008); MA-Communication, Ohio University (1998); BS-Communication, Ohio University (1995)
Year Appointed
2016
Courses - Fall
  • LEAD 101 - Foundations of Leadership
  • LEAD 290 - Nonprofit Leadership and Board Governance
Courses - Spring
  • LEAD 103 - Organizational Leadership
  • LEAD 290 - Nonprofit Leadership and Board Governance
Biography

A native of Williamstown, West Virginia, Dr. Elliott came to Marietta College in 2016 to direct the Nonprofits LEAD capacity building program and was promoted to Director of the Office of Community Engagement in 2021. She moved to the faculty in 2023 and is now serving as the Interim Dean of the McDonough Center for Leadership and Business.
Amy has an extensive background in facilitating organizational and personal change and development, as well as experience in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors, including founding and leading organizations in both. Dr. Elliott’s professional joy comes from making connections between campus and community while working toward sustainability for all organizations. She loves developing young leaders in Appalachia and seeing them live up to their full potential.  Amy is a trustee of the Memorial Health Foundation, a Silver Award Leader for Girl Scouts, and a lifetime member of the Marietta Welfare League..

Publications

Hall, Sahdana and Amy Elliott.  "Performance-Based Learning: Gaining Competency Through Practice " In Moving the Needle: What We Know (and Don’t) About Developing Leaders, edited by David M. Rosch, Scott J. Allen, and Daniel M. Jenkins, Emerald Publishing Limited, 2025.