Maylon Hanold

Maylon Hanold is a Teaching Professor in the Management Department at Seattle University. She teaches courses in leadership, workplace diversity, equity and inclusion, and human resource management across the MBA in Sport and Entertainment Management and Professional MBA programs as well as in the management undergraduate major. She led the move of the sport management program from the College of Arts and Sciences to the Albers School of Business and Economics in 2018 and established the program’s inaugural Advisory Board. Dr. Hanold subsequently led the re-imagination of the graduate sport management program to become an MBA in Sport and Entertainment program in 2021, becoming the first of its kind to build on DEI as a core philosophy, establishing partnerships with the Seahawks, Mariners, Sounders FC, Storm, Kraken, Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle U Athletics, OL Reign and others committed to working together to identify actions and implement solutions that address historic inequities in the sport industry.

Dr, Hanold also works as a DEI consultant, leading workplace inclusion and unconscious bias workshops across various organizations. She co-authored a working guide to creating equity in organizations, Equity in Action: A New Paradigm for Increasing Equity in Organizations.

She has been an invited speaker on many topics including inclusive leadership, media and sport, sport psychology, intersections between sport and leadership, and how to build and sustain high-performing teams in the workplace.

Her cross-disciplinary approach is reflected in the journals in which she has published: Advancing Women in Leadership, Global Sport Business Journal, Sociology of Sport,Advances in Developing Human Resources.

She was a member of the 1992 Olympic Team in whitewater kayak slalom. These days, she enjoys trail running with her dog, mountain biking, snowboarding, hiking and either floating or paddling on rivers.

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