Amy Kyhos

Executive Lecturer, Management; Director, Executive and Professional Education Center; Graduate Program Director, Executive Degrees

Amy Kyhos is the graduate program director for Quinlan School of Business executive degrees (Executive MBA and MBA in Healthcare Management), director of the Executive and Professional Education Center, and an executive lecturer. She teaches organizational behavior, international management, strategic management, international business, and organizational development and change.

She served as visiting professor at Universidad del País Vasco in Bilbao, Spain, teaching international management. She was awarded a course development grant from Loyola's Hank Center, which led to the establishment of MGMT 399: Leadership and Management in the Jesuit Tradition. In this course, she leads a study abroad trip for her students in northern Spain.

During 2014-22, Amy served as director of the Quinlan Honors program. She is a member of the Ricci Scholars Faculty Advisory Board and teaches in the Executive and Professional Education Center for custom program clients and in the Mini-MBA program. For five years, Amy was the faculty lead for Quinlan's annual undergraduate case competition. During 2022, Amy was Quinlan’s Faculty Director, Career Development.

Amy joined the Department of Management in 2009 and brings her students twenty years of business experience from her previous career working with corporate, agency, and association clients at Allstate Corporation and with global agencies Golin and FleishmanHillard.

Education

Professional/Community Affiliations

• Academy of Management
• Association House of Chicago, Board Director
• Colleagues in Jesuit Business Education
• Management & Organizational Behavior Teaching Society

Courses Taught

• MGMT 201: Managing People and Organizations
• MGMT 304: Strategic Management
• MGMT 315: International Management
• MGMT 318: Organizational Development and Change
• MGMT 399: Leadership and Management in the Jesuit Tradition (study abroad)
• MGMT 472E: Organizational Change and Development
• MGMT 606E: Executive MBA: International Immersion (study abroad)
• IBUS 201: International Business
• HCMT 516: Healthcare Change Management
• BHNR 300: Quinlan Honors Seminar

Awards

• Kolvenbach Award for Engaged Teaching, Loyola University Chicago, 2024
• Dean’s Faculty Service Award, Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University Chicago, 2024
• Mission-Based Faculty of the Year, Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University Chicago, 2023