Dr. Herb Nold is a distinguished Professor of Business Administration at Polk State College with over 30 years of leadership experience as an educator and business leader ranging from teacher and coach to manufacturing engineer to Chief Financial Officer in various industries prior to joining Polk State in 2012. He has a proven record in the industry of guiding businesses through periods of rapid change and growth, particularly internationally where he guided operations in numerous countries including the United Kingdom, Netherlands, India and Taiwan.

Professional and Academic Background

Nold is a lead faculty member for Polk State’s Supervision and Management Program. His expertise and research interests are in the areas of organizational culture, organizational change and performance optimization. He is an active member of the Academy of Management Divisions of Organizational Development and Change (ODC) and Strategic Management (SM). Nold is also an associate editor and reviewer for several academic journals.

Since earning a doctorate in 2011, his research has been published in numerous academic journals, book chapters and books and cited over 1,000 times. Nold received a 2013 Outstanding Paper Award from the Journal of Intellectual Capital, Emerald Publishing and the International Award for Excellence for the top-ranked paper for 2012 published by The Organization Collection of Papers, the International Journal on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organizations.

Published in 2021 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing Agile Strategies for the 21st Century: The Need for Speed translates his research into language understandable by undergraduate students and business executives alike. Nold’s second book published in 2024, The Transition of Organizations, helps provide a practical roadmap for executives guiding organizations through growth and expansion phases. Book number three, ‘Unmanaged’: How Mastery in Management Replaces Muddling through Leadership is due out in November 2025. A fourth book, Patterns of Mastery: Business Cases for the Digital Economy, has been accepted and scheduled for publication in 2026.

Leadership and Public Service

Nold is a past member of Polk State College Academic Quality Council, BAS Advisory Board, International Initiatives Advisory Board, Faculty Advisor Golden Key International Honour Society and has organized four study abroad student projects taking students to South Africa, Brazil, Panama and the University of Oxford in England. He has been awarded two Endowed Teaching Chairs from the Polk State Foundation. Nold is also a faculty member at Assumption University in Bangkok, Thailand in the Organizational Development and Change doctorate program.

Education

Nold earned a Doctor of Management (DM) in Organizational Leadership from the University of Phoenix, College of Doctoral Studies. He holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in education from Northern Illinois University and completed accounting and finance courses at the University of Texas at Dallas to meet the requirements for a Certified Public Accountant.