Susan Nolan Palmer ’67

Susan Nolan Palmer is a Professor of the Practice at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School where she teaches human capital in the Executive MBA program. Prior to joining UNC-Chapel Hill, she was employed as a human resource executive with Prudential in New York and Wells Fargo in San Francisco.
Susan received a B.A. from Mary Baldwin College where she spent her junior year at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and a Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from North Carolina State University where she minored in business administration at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Susan has held elected office in the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, a division of the American Psychology Association, and has served on the editorial board of Personnel Psychology. She currently serves on ´óÏó´«Ã½â€™s Board of Trustees and the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Patient Advocates for Research Council.
Susan has established the Susan Nolan Palmer Graduate Programs in Business and a Scholarship Fund for Women in Business at ´óÏó´«Ã½ as well as The Palmer Family Fund for Innovative Cancer Research at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.