Amy Diehl, Ph.D.

Dr. Amy Diehl is an award-winning information technology leader and gender bias expert who is co-author of the forthcoming book on gender bias: GLASS WALLS: Shattering the Six Gender Bias Barriers Still Holding Women Back at Work to be published by Rowman & Littlefield in June 2023.

She has served in many roles during her career, currently as Chief Information Officer at Wilson College and previously as Associate Vice President & Chief Information Technology Officer at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Dr. Diehl consults on workplace gender bias and qualitative research, and she has served as a gender discrimination & retaliation lawsuit expert witness. She is sought-after speaker for conferences, workshops, guest lectures, and panels. Learn more about consulting, speaking and expert witness services.

She has a PhD in administration and leadership from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her doctoral dissertation focused on how women leaders in higher education make meaning of adversity.

She was named to the 2020 EdTech Dean’s List of Higher Ed IT Influencers Worth a Follow. She was also named a 2019 Central Penn Business Journal Woman of Influence and received the 2016 Women and Leadership Affinity Group Outstanding Scholarship for Emerging Scholars Award from the International Leadership Association.

Her research has been published in academic journals: Personnel Review, Human Resource Development QuarterlyJournal of Leadership Studies, Gender in Management: An International Journaland Advancing Women in Leadership. She’s also contributed chapters to Women and Leadership in Higher Education, the first volume in the International Leadership Association’s Women and Leadership book series and the Handbook of Research on Gender and Leadership, Edward Elgar Publishing. Her work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Ms. Magazine, and University Business Magazine.

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