Debra A. Noumair

Debra A. Noumair, Professor of Psychology and Education is Founder and Director of the Executive Masters Program in Change Leadership (XMA) and Director of Executive Education Programs in Change and Consultation in the Department of Organization and Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University. The focus of her work is on applying systems psychodynamics to executive education as well as to organization change with individuals, teams, and organizations. She teaches courses on organization change, process consultation, and executive coaching.

Dr. Noumair is co-author of Organization Development: A Process of Learning & Changing, 3rdEdition, co-editor of the Emerald annual book series, Research in Organization Change and Development, and coeditor of Group Dynamics, Organizational Irrationality, and Social Complexity: Group Relations Reader 3. She is an Associate Editor of The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science and on the International Advisory Board of the OPUS International Journal, Organisational and Social Dynamics.

As director of numerous leadership development programs, Dr. Noumair brings her work on individual, group, and organizational dynamics to executives through examining multi-rater feedback and psychological assessments at the individual and group level and through teaching and executive coaching with senior executives nationally and internationally. She has worked with global companies in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the United States.

Much of Dr. Noumair’s executive education work involves partnering with organizations to address the advancement of women through examining systemic barriers, teaching group dynamics, and conducting assessment-anchored executive coaching with women leaders. Dr. Noumair regularly directs custom women’s leadership development programs and she is on the core faculty of Leading Women Executives, a CEO-sponsored leadership development program focused on high potential women and their companies.

Dr. Noumair consults to organizations in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors on culture change, senior team effectiveness, intergroup and interorganizational relations, and issues related to diversity at work. A Group Relations scholar and practitioner, Dr. Noumair is a Fellow of the A. K. Rice Institute. She has consulted to and directed Group Relations conferences nationally and served on the Board of Directors of the A.K. Rice Institute for nine years.

Dr. Noumair received her bachelor’s degree from Boston University and holds masters and doctoral degrees from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Academy of Management, and the Organization Development Network.