Amy J. Keely is an award-winning supply-chain marketer with over twenty years of business experience working for small businesses as well as billion-dollar corporations - in a variety of industries – primarily within the disciplines of marketing and operations. Amy’s specialty areas include global business management, small business, and business operational efficiencies. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Michigan with an influence in psychology and communication and attended Cambridge University in the UK for International Studies. She also holds a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA), a Master of Education (M.Ed.); and a Ph.D. ABD in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Art Theory. Her successful marketing campaigns have resulted in earning the highly prestigious industry awards of the American Marketing Association Award and Silver Microphone Award. Amy has traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and globally to countries in Europe and India. It has helped her have a deeper understanding of various cultures in global business. She has taught classes at both business colleges and art schools in the following disciplines: Management, Business/Business Law, Marketing (Advertising/Digital Media, Public Relations, Sales, Customer Service), Human Resources, English, Communications, Photography, and Fashion Merchandising (Consumer Behavior, Visual Merchandising, Import/Export Taxation, Inventory & Stock Control, Forecasting, etc.). In addition to published case studies written for the workforce management industry, she is a published author from one of her Ph.D. papers titled The Evaluation or Valuation of Art: An Artist’s Dilemma. Her peer reviewed paper was published in the International Journal of Art and Art History. Amy’s career and educational choices are unique as an academic and business executive providing her with the lens of an inter-disciplinarian. While separate and distinct interests, she has found connections that are uncommon but support her passion for business supply chain marketing, philosophy, and helping others. She is a health advocate supporting mental health patients including her mother who was the first female engineer but passed away from Alzheimer’s with Sundowners. Her current doctorial work in fashion philosophy also supports her marketing background as both are tied to knowledge, the idea, and the role of ‘beings in the world’. Further the Socratic method, found within the legal system, is foundational for learning how to pose the question and a tenant to learning and retention.