Meet the Faculty

Dr. Melvin Dowdy

Executive Education Programme Faculty, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Ph.D., M.Div., M.A.

Dr. Melvin Dowdy is a longstanding partner of the Mendoza Business School’s Executive Education Center at Notre Dame. Dowdy has more than 32 years of experience in executive coaching, organizational consultation, and academic instruction. He has research and extensive professional experience in the area of organizational ethics and has focused his work on building organizational environments that support ethical integrity. He has held teaching positions at Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Union University, and Neumann University, as well as The Virginia Institute of Pastoral Care. He holds a B.A. degree from North Carolina Wesleyan, an M.Div. from Duke Divinity School, a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Duke University Graduate School, and an M.A. degree in Clinical Ethics from University of Virginia. He has coached senior leaders from a wide range of industries, including clients from Fortune 500 companies, family-owned businesses, political and educational leaders, law firms, and medical practices.

Dowdy reconnected with Kylemore in October of 2016 when he was asked to facilitate the centre’s inaugural Executive Leadership program, finding again that the monastery, the landscape, and Irish culture were a perfect context for teaching leadership that develops from “the-inside-out.” Dowdy’s book of poems, “Night Weavers,” was published in November 2020.

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