Nancy Scott, Ph.D., MBA, is the Leadership Development Programs director for the Haslam College of Business Executive Degree Programs. Nancy designs and heads the executive education programs’ leadership development assessments and development activities. She also teaches courses in leadership in several of the college’s executive education, MBA, non-degree, and undergraduate programs. Her teaching focuses on leadership as a relational influence process. She covers topics that include power and influence, motivation, performance management, high performing teams, innovation emotional intelligence, and change leadership. Her primary research interests are humor, leadership and leadership development, organizational hardiness, training transfer, social entrepreneurship, and experiential learning. She is a member of the Academy of Management, the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology, and the Management & Organizational Behavior Teaching Society. Nancy also serves on the International Coaching Federation Tennessee board. Nancy is a certified facilitator in the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology, the Strengths Deployment Inventory, and the Hogan Assessments. In 2015, she won the Chancellor's Excellence in Teaching Award. She won the Outstanding Faculty Award in the Strategic Leadership Executive MBA program in 2022. In 2023, she was the winner of the Richard Sanders Award in Graduate and Executive Education, the Outstanding Faculty Award for the Master of Science in Management & Human Resource Program, and the Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award.