Shelley Dionne became dean of the ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ School of Management in 2022. She is also a leadership and organizational science professor, the former director of the Bass Center for Leadership Studies and an NCAA Faculty Athletics representative. During her tenure, the School of Management has been consistently ranked among the nation's top 10 public business schools. The school has also gained recognition from the Wall Street Journal, placing among the nation’s best public schools for graduates who earn high-paying salaries in accounting, finance and marketing. Among Dionne's research interests are leadership, teams and workforce development, collective dynamics and levels of analysis issues. She has also won the School of Management’s Corning Research Award for outstanding research and the New York state Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dionne earned her BS in nutrition from Rochester Institute of Technology and her PhD and MBA from the School of Management. She was part of the school's first cohort of doctoral students, earning her PhD in leadership and organizational behavior in 1998 with a minor in learning and development. Over the course of her career, she has published in several journals, co-authored a leadership book, and received multiple grants from the National Science Foundation and Army Research Institute. Dionne has also been principal or co-principal investigator on grants totaling more than $2 million from agencies including the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, and the Broome-Tioga Association of Chief School Administrators. From 2008 until 2020, she was also principal investigator for the ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ Leadership Academy, later the ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ Leadership Development Program.
Shelley D. Dionne
Dean and Professor of Management
School of Management
Background
Education
Research Interests
Awards
Research Profile
Related News Stories