Noumair, Debra (dn28)

• Executive education and change leadership
• Closing the research-practice gap via evidence-based change leadership
• Application of systems psychodynamics to organization development and change
• Social identity relations and individual, interpersonal, group, organizational, and societal dynamics
  

Shani, A. B., Noumair, D. A., Zandee, D., Coghlan, D.  (Eds.), (2025). Research in Organization Change and Development, Volume 31, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Mistur, E. J., Scalora, S.C. Crete, A. A., Anderson, M. R., Kriti, J., Huang, C., Noumair, D. A., Miller, L. (2024). Supporting Sexual and Gender Minority College Student Wellness: Differential Needs and Outcomes in a spiritual mind-body intervention. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.

Noumair, D. A. & Jenkins, J. D. (2023). X-Ray vision: a research tool for uncovering system psychodynamics to advance organization change. In Szabla, D. B., Coghlan, D., Pasmore, W. & Kim, J. Y. (Eds), Handbook of Research Methods in Organizational Change, Edgar Elgar Publishing.

Noumair, D. A., Shani, A. B. & Zandee, D. (Eds.), (2023). Research in Organization Change and Development, Volume 30, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Shani, A. B. & Noumair, D. A. (Eds.), (2021). Research in Organization Change and Development, Volume 29 UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Perry, L. E., Block, C. J., & Noumair, D. A. (2021). Leading In: Inclusive Leadership, Inclusive Climates and Sexual Harassment, Equality, diversity, and inclusion: An international journal.

Noumair, D. A. & Shani, A. B. (Eds.), (2020). Research in Organization Change and Development, Volume 28 UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Shani, A. B. & Noumair, D. A.(Eds.), (2019). Research in Organization Change and Development, Volume 27 UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Noumair, D. A.& Shani, A. B. (Eds.), (2018). Research in Organization Change and Development, Volume 26 UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Noumair, D. A.,Pfaff, D. A., St. John, C., Gipson, A., Brazaitis, S. J. X-ray vision at work: Seeing inside organizational life. In Shani, A. B. & Noumair, D. A. (Eds.), (2017). Research in Organization Change and Development, Volume 25 UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Shani, A. B. & Noumair, D. A.(Eds.), (2017). Research in Organization Change and Development, Volume 25 UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Block, C. J. and Noumair, D. A. (2017). Introduction: Understanding diversity dynamics in systems: Social equality as an organization change issue. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 51, 5–9.

Noumair, D. A.& Shani, A. B. (Eds.), (2016). Research in Organization Change and Development, Volume 24 UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Kolb, D. M. & Noumair, D. A. (June 17, 2016). How to negotiate for yourself when people don’t expect you to.Harvard Business Review.

Shani, A. B. & Noumair, D. A. ( Eds.), (2015). Research in Organization Change and Development, Volume 23 UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Block, C. J. & Noumair, D.A. (2015). Call for papers: Understanding diversity dynamics in systems: Social equality as an organization change issue. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 51, 5–9.

Burke, W. W. & Noumair, D. A. (2015). Organization Development: A Process of Learning and Changing, 3^rdEdition. New York: Pearson.

Shani, A. B. & Noumair, D. A. (Eds.), (2014). Research in Organization Change and Development, Volume 22. UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Golom, F. D. & Noumair, D. A. (2014). No add-ons necessary: Cultural and pedagogical implications of a competency-based approach to training I/O psychologists. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 7(1), 18–21.

Noumair, D. A. (2013). Cultural revelations: Shining a light on organizational dynamics. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy,63 (2), 153–176.

Shani, A. B., Pasmore, W. A., Woodman, R. W., & Noumair, D. A.(Eds.), (2013). Research in Organization Change and Development, Volume 21. UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Noumair, D. A.,Winderman, B. B., & Burke, W. W. (2010). Transforming the A. K. Rice Institute: From club to organization. (2010). The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 46 (4), 473–499.

Debra A. Noumair, Professor of Psychology and Education, Founder and Director of the Executive Master's Program in Change Leadership (XMA), Department of Organization and Leadership, Program in Socia-Organizational Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University. 

With a career dedicated to bridging the gap between research and practice, ProfessorNoumair is deeply involved in teaching, research, consulting, and coaching. Her innovative leadership development programs are designed to educate scholar-practitioners and advance leadership capabilities. In recognition of her work as primary architect of the Executive Master’s Program in Change Leadership, Professor Noumair won the first Teachers College, Columbia University Teaching Award in 2020 and was a second-time winner of the award in 2022. Outside of Columbia, Professor Noumair directs executive education programs in global organizations in Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the United States and serves on the faculty of the Change Leadership Master of Science Program (Oxford Said Business School & HEC- Paris), and on the faculty of Leading Women Executives (a CEO-sponsored leadership development program in the US).

The focus of Professor Noumair’s academic work is on applying systems psychodynamics to organization change with individuals, teams, and organizations. She is animated by creating opportunities to develop the capacity to think systemically, to link overt behavior to covert dynamics, and to discuss the un-discussable as she views these competencies as central to surviving and thriving in social systems. As a Fellow of the A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems, the educational institution for Group Relations in the US, her work is informed by systems and psychodynamic theories and experiential learning. Through her research, Professor Noumairdeveloped X-Ray Vision, a tool which provides a framework for linking overt behavior and covert dynamics to develop a comprehensive understanding of group and organizational life and advance organization change.

Professor Noumair partners with organizations in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors to advance under-represented groups through examining systemic barriers, teaching group dynamics, and conducting assessment-anchored executive coaching with senior leaders. As an expert on the Hogan Assessments, she coaches leaders and leadership teams to increase their individual and collective emotional intelligence to achieve strategic goals.

Professor Noumair is co-author of Organization Development: A Process of Learning & Changing, 3^rd Edition, co-editor of the annual book series, Research in Organization Change and Development, and coeditor of Group Dynamics, Organizational Irrationality, and Social Complexity: Group Relations Reader 3. She serves on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science.

Professor Noumair received her bachelor’s degree from Boston University and her master’s and doctoral degrees from Teachers College, Columbia University.