An accomplished, engaging, and versatile nonprofit leader, consultant, and sought-after speaker, Amie Dugan has 30 years of nonprofit experience, ranging from the grassroots to international levels of the sector.

Amie serves as Senior Vice President, Special Olympics North America, leading the Organizational Development team that provides guidance and oversight to all 85 SONA Programs (comprised of United States, Canada, Caribbean), from ensuring compliance to facilitating the operational and programmatic advancement and excellence of all Programs to further the mission and impact of Special Olympics.

In addition to overseeing the Organizational Development team, some of Amie’s areas of specialty include CEO searches and CEO on-boarding, executive coaching and leader mentorship, Board Governance training and consultation, organizational capacity building and strategy, strategic planning, leading practices/centers of excellence building, professional and leadership training and development, facilitation, curriculum development, risk management, enterprise risk management, business operations and continuity, crisis communications, brand/communications/marketing, fundraising, special event planning, and diversity, equity and inclusion. She serves as the global leadership and program excellence lead for Special Olympics North America.

Amie has experience ranging from the grassroots to global levels of the Special Olympics movement, an international organization that advances some of her greatest passions: inclusion, social equity, and the transformative power of sport.

Prior to her current role, she established Special Olympics North America’s Marketing and Communications division and led the department from 2012-2017. Prior to that, she served as Vice President of Marketing and Communications for Special Olympics Florida for fourteen years.

In those roles Amie oversaw marketing, communications, media, social media, digital media, crisis communications, risk management, brand and more, including national and World Games. She has served on Special Olympics’ global brand task force, co-chaired the United States Leadership Committee’s marketing and communications committee, served as a member of the Special Olympics USA management team, and continues to serve on the Special Olympics (Intl.) Risk Management and Insurance Task Force.

Amie began as a Special Olympics volunteer in 1994 and was inducted into the Special Olympics Florida Hall of Fame in 2011. She has been a coach, Unified partner and volunteer for 30 years and continues to coach in Orlando.

Prior to Special Olympics, she worked for the Walt Disney World Company and the Juilliard School of Music.

She earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Rollins College and holds a MMBA as well as a certificate in nonprofit management, multiple leadership institute program certificates, and has designed and led numerous Leadership Academies.