Nancy Dearman

As a founding member and owner of Kotter, Nancy brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to serve the company’s vision of helping millions of people to become better leaders. Over the past 25 years, Nancy has held various senior leadership roles within the organization and its predecessor, including CEO from 2010 to 2014. She is currently a Kotter affiliate where she provides assistance in assessments, publishing and organizational issues. Nancy developed several websites that present John Kotter’s model on leading change and developed multiple partner relationships that distribute John Kotter’s concepts through corporate training programs, video production, and the web. She conducted in‐depth interviews with high-level executives from Fortune 500 companies to inform the research, advising, and seminar work conducted by John Kotter. Prior to Kotter, Nancy served in marketing and market research roles in several companies and as a statistician in the U.S. government. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a Master of Arts in Statistics from The George Washington University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

She lives in Sarasota, FL with her husband where they enjoy occasional visits from their two grown children.