Dr. Andrea Dixon provides academic leadership for Baylor University's Center for Professional Selling. Since 2009, Dr. Dixon has built Baylor's sales center into one of the top programs in the country. She has been published in the Journal of Marketing, Harvard Business Review, Organizational Science, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Leadership Quarterly, European Journal of Marketing (EJM), the Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management (JPSSM), Journal of Marketing Education, and other journals. Her editorial-review-board assignments include those for the EJM, JPSSM, the Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, the Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing, and the Journal of Marketing Education. Dr. Dixon has received numerous teaching awards, including the Academy of Marketing Science's Marketing Teacher Award (2008) and the Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Marketing Association's Sales SIG (2014). In 2020, she was named the Cornelia Marschall Smith Award winner, which is presented annually to a Baylor faculty member for contributing to the learning environment through teaching, research, and service. She has served on the boards of the AMA Academic Council, National Conference on Sales Management, and Global Sales Science Institute and as the president of the AMA Sales SIG. In 2019, Dr. Dixon became the president of the University Sales Center Alliance. At Baylor, she was the Vice-Chair, Presidential Search Committee and Faculty Regent, Baylor University Board of Regents. Prior to pursuing her Ph.D. (Indiana University), Dr. Dixon worked in sales roles in Boston-area advertising and marketing research firms. Outside of work, she and her husband, Doug, enjoy traveling and time with their adult twins, Taylor Dixon and Alex Dixon, their daughter-in-law, Kimberly, and their two grandchildren.
