Amy Flowers ’89

Microsoft Chief of Staff

Inducted 2026

After graduating from NC, Amy earned degrees in Biology and English from Pacific Lutheran University, fully intending to go to medical school. Instead, she decided to take a year off and landed at Microsoft, thinking it would be a short detour before returning to her original plan. That detour turned into a career. 

She has spent much of her career in marketing at Microsoft Network, and went on to lead Microsoft’s Open Source Initiative. For the past several years she has served as a Chief of Staff for engineering leaders, leading strategy, communications, and operations for their organizations. 

 What makes Amy's journey remarkable is not just the range of roles, but the thread that connects them. Whether she was in Microsoft Network, open-source community building, or helping engineering leaders as Chief of Staff, her main passion has always been driving change at scale.

 Amy is drawn to the work of translating complex ideas into something people can understand and act on, and then making sure it reaches as many people as possible. She is known for investing deeply in her people, setting a high bar, and constantly pushing her team to rethink how learning should work in a world that is changing fast.