Dr. Branda Nowell, Ph.D.

Organizational psychologist specializing in network management, institutional design, change management, and program evaluation

Research Expertise

social networks
multi-organizational systems
complex problem domains
public management
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Health (social science)
Applied Psychology
Social Psychology
Education
Sociology and Political Science
Business and International Management
Strategy and Management
Marketing
Public Administration
Management of Technology and Innovation
Management Information Systems
Safety Research
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Forestry
Plant Science
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Aquatic Science
Building and Construction
Geology
Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
Law
Global and Planetary Change

About

Dr. Branda Nowell is a highly skilled organizational psychologist with a strong background in change management. She earned her Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from Michigan State University in 2006, where she focused on understanding the impact of organizational change on employee behavior and well-being. After completing her doctoral studies, Dr. Nowell worked as a change management consultant at Duke University, where she developed and implemented strategies to support and manage change initiatives within the university. She also served as a consultant for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), where she helped these organizations navigate through major changes and transitions. Dr. Nowell's expertise in change management has been highly sought after in both the public and private sectors. She has worked with a wide range of organizations, from small businesses to large corporations, to develop and implement effective change management strategies. Her approach is rooted in her deep understanding of human behavior and how it is affected by organizational change. In addition to her work as a consultant, Dr. Nowell is also a prolific researcher and writer. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on organizational change and employee well-being, and frequently presents at conferences and workshops on the topic. Dr. Nowell is known for her ability to build strong relationships with her clients and effectively guide them through the complex process of change management. Her passion for helping organizations and individuals thrive during times of change has made her a highly respected and sought-after expert in her field.

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Publications

Putting the system back into systems change: a framework for understanding and changing organizational and community systems
American Journal of Community Psychology
2007
Using Methods That Matter: The Impact of Reflection, Dialogue, and Voice
American Journal of Community Psychology
2005
Viewing community as responsibility as well as resource: deconstructing the theoretical roots of psychological sense of community
Journal of Community Psychology
2010
Conflict, conflict resolution and bullying
Bullying and Emotional Abuse in the Workplace
2002
A Framework for Assessing the Performance of Nonprofit Organizations
American Journal of Evaluation
2014
Revealing the Cues Within Community Places: Storiesof Identity, History, and Possibility
American Journal of Community Psychology
2006
A Reviewer’s Guide to Qualitative Rigor
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
2018
Profiling Capacity for Coordination and Systems Change: The Relative Contribution of Stakeholder Relationships in Interorganizational Collaboratives
American Journal of Community Psychology
2009
Sense of Community Responsibility in Community Collaboratives: Advancing a Theory of Community as Resource and Responsibility
American Journal of Community Psychology
2014
The Structure of Effective Governance of Disaster Response Networks: Insights From the Field
The American Review of Public Administration
2017
Sense of Community, Sense of Community Responsibility, and Public Service Motivation as Predictors of Employee Well-Being and Engagement in Public Service Organizations
The American Review of Public Administration
2017
Psychological Sense of Community
Journal of Management Inquiry
2013
Mobilizing Residents for Action: The Role of Small Wins and Strategic Supports
American Journal of Community Psychology
2006
Communication under Fire: The Role of Embeddedness in the Emergence and Efficacy of Disaster Response Communication Networks
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
2014
Examining Multi‐Sector Community Collaboratives as Vehicles for Building Organizational Capacity
American Journal of Community Psychology
2010
Sense of community, sense of community responsibility, organizational commitment and identification, and public service motivation: a simultaneous test of affective states on employee well-being and engagement in a public service work context
Public Management Review
2020
TESTING A THEORY OF SENSE OF COMMUNITY AND COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITY IN ORGANIZATIONS: AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT OF PREDICTIVE CAPACITY ON EMPLOYEE WELL‐BEING AND ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP
Journal of Community Psychology
2017
Out of Sync and Unaware? Exploring the Effects of Problem Frame Alignment and Discordance in Community Collaboratives
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
2009
Public Service Motivation and Sense of Community Responsibility: Comparing Two Motivational Constructs in Understanding Leadership Within Community Collaboratives
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
2016
The Impact of Special Education Mediation on Parent—School Relationships
Remedial and Special Education
2007
Understanding Information Exchange During Disaster Response
Administration & Society
2012
Leading Change Through Collaborative Partnerships: A Profile of Leadership and Capacity Among Local Public Health Leaders
Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community
2010
Sense of community as construct and theory: authors' response to McMillan
Journal of Community Psychology
2011
Redundancy as a strategy in disaster response systems: A pathway to resilience or a recipe for disaster?
Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
2017
Beyond ICS: How Should We Govern Complex Disasters in the United States?
Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
2019
The Role of Responder Networks in Promoting Community Resilience: Toward a Measurement Framework of Network Capacity
Disaster Resiliency
2013
Purpose-Oriented Networks: The Architecture of Complexity
Perspectives on Public Management and Governance
2019
Patterns of preference and practice: bridging actors in wildfire response networks in the American Northwest
Disasters
2016
Local Ecological Knowledge and Fire Management: What Does the Public Understand?
Journal of Forestry
2016
Evidence of effectiveness in the Cohesive Strategy: measuring and improving wildfire response
International Journal of Wildland Fire
2019
Networks of Networks? Toward an External Perspective on Whole Networks
Perspectives on Public Management and Governance
2019
Studying Networks in Complex Problem Domains: Advancing Methods in Boundary Specification
Perspectives on Public Management and Governance
2018
Pathways of Representation in Network Governance: Evidence from Multi-Jurisdictional Disasters
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
2021
Psychometric properties of the Italian version of the sense of community responsibility scale
Journal of Community Psychology
2020
Building Practical Authority for Community Forestry in and through Networks: The role of community‐based organisations in the U.S. West
Environmental Policy and Governance
2017
Apples to Apples
Unknown Venue
2022
Capacity building in stakeholders around Detroit River fish consumption advisory issues
Freshwater Science
2014
Network isomorphism?: A network perspective on the symbolic performance of purpose-oriented networks
International Public Management Journal
2020
Public Management in an Era of the Unprecedented: Dominant Institutional Logics as a Barrier to Organizational Sensemaking
Perspectives on Public Management and Governance
2020
Forum: Humanistic Perspectives on the Policy and Praxis of Disaster Management
Administrative Theory & Praxis
2010
Co-management during crisis: insights from jurisdictionally complex wildfires
International Journal of Wildland Fire
2022
Perspective Matters
Social Network Analysis of Disaster Response, Recovery, and Adaptation
2017
Print E-mail Barriers and Facilitators to Local Food Market Development: A Contingency Perspective
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
2015
Methodological considerations in pre- and post-emergency network identification and data collection for disaster risk reduction: Lessons from wildfire response networks in the American Northwest
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
2019
Interorganizational Alliances
Encyclopedia of Social Work
2021
Networks and Crisis Management
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
2020
State‐level associations: An emerging trend in community mediation
Conflict Resolution Quarterly
2004
Testing a Theory of Sense of Community and Community Responsibility in Non-Profit Organizations
Academy of Management Proceedings
2014
PROBLEM FRAMES IN COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVES: EXPLORING THE EFFECT OF FRAME ALIGNMENT AND OBLIVIOUSNESS.
Academy of Management Proceedings
2008
Community at Work: Sensing Community Through Needs Fulfillment and Responsibility
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
2018
Response to paper “Systems Thinking” by D. Cabrera et al.: Conceptualizing systems thinking in evaluation
Evaluation and Program Planning
2008
The structure of effective governance of transboundary disaster response networks
Academy of Management Proceedings
2015
Recovery as long term: an introduction
Long-Term Recovery from Substance Use
2022
A population ecology of network domains
Public Management Review
2023
Innovations in Community-Based Workforce Development
Promoting Sustainable Local and Community Economic Development
2010
MAPPING WILDFIRE JURISDICTIONAL COMPLEXITY REVEALS OPPORTUNITIES FOR REGIONAL CO-MANAGEMENT
Global Environmental Change
2024
Coupled Natural and Institutional Systems: A Twenty Year Study of the Changing Institutional Complexity of Wildfire
Unknown Venue
2023
Responsibility toward others is vital in public and non-profit organizations: can we recruit, hire, and cultivate it?
Conclusions: where does motivation research in public administration go from here?
2022
Purpose-oriented Networks and their Environment: A Population Ecology of Network Domains
Academy of Management Proceedings
2021
New Frontiers in Community Research
Academy of Management Proceedings
2020
PPMG Appreciation for 2019 Reviewers
Perspectives on Public Management and Governance
2020
AAAS 2018 Annual Meeting Program
Science
2018
To be Different or to be the Same? Examining Symbolic Performance of Embedded Partnerships
Academy of Management Proceedings
2016
PSM and Sense of Community and Responsibility as Predictors of Employee Well-Being and Engagement
Academy of Management Proceedings
2015
Redundancy in Disaster Response Systems: A Pathway to Resilience or a Recipe for Disaster?
Academy of Management Proceedings
2014
Familiarity, Similarity, and Performance Effectiveness in Disaster Response
Academy of Management Proceedings
2012
The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in Long-Term Human Recovery After Disaster Reflections From Louisiana Four Years After Hurricane Katrina: Summary
PsycEXTRA Dataset
2009
Stakeholder Engagement Strategy Guide
Unknown Venue
2016
Continuing the Dialogue on Organization Studies and Community Psychology
PsycEXTRA Dataset
2005

Education

Michigan State University

Ph.D., Organizational Psychology / May, 2006

East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Experience

Duke University

CHange management consultant / January, 2019Present

Advised university administration on organizational design and change management to accomplish strategic objectives

NOAA

Consultant / January, 2019January, 2020

Program evaluation consultant assisting agency administrators to assess their organizational learning systems

USDA

Consultant / January, 2018January, 2019

Consultant on organizational failures in response to large scale wildfire disasters

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