Dr. Michelle French-Holloway
Bio
Michelle French-Holloway serves as a tenured Full Professor and Program Director in the Department of Business Administration at Mount Saint Mary’s University, Los Angeles. She teaches courses in management, leadership, and organizational behavior.
Dr. French-Holloway earned a doctorate in Organization Leadership, an MBA in Marketing, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Pepperdine University. She holds a graduate certificate in Pastoral Logotherapy from the Graduate Theological Foundation, and she has certificates in Theology from Oxford University.
Dr. French-Holloway’s professional experience includes over twenty years in strategic marketing consulting for clients in the entertainment and technology industries and in the non-profit space, public relations and sales in the fashion industry, and fund development in the non-profit sector. She has served on the boards of non-profit organizations specializing in providing educational and behavioral health services to youth and families.
Her research interests include leadership, meaning and calling in work, and effectiveness in faith-based organizations. Dr. French-Holloway’s new book, A New Meaning-Mission Fit: Aligning Life and Work in Business, offers a clear process for managers, professionals, and future leaders to help discover their personal meaning in life and apply it to their work.
She is a Past Chair of the Management, Spirituality and Religion Interest Group of the Academy of Management and Past President of the Management Faculty of Color Association. She is a frequent speaker for conferences such as the International Association of Management, Spirituality and Religion Conference; the International Critical Management Conference; and the Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference. She has served as a Research Fellow with the Center for Church Management at the Villanova School of Business. She is a Life Worth Living Faculty Fellow with the Yale Center for Faith & Culture at Yale Divinity School.
Dr. French-Holloway lives in Southern California.
