Deborah Nightingale

Deborah J. Seifert Nightingale is an American management scientist, industrial engineer, and enterprise transformation consultant. She is University Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management Systems at the University of Central Florida, past president of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, a former professor of Engineering Systems and of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.[1] She is the 2020 winner of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award.[2]

Nightingale is a graduate of the University of Dayton, and has a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Ohio State University.[3] She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993,[4] was president of the Institute of Industrial Engineers for 1995–1996,[5] served on the MIT faculty from 1997 to 2014, and joined the University of Central Florida faculty in 2017.[1]

Nightingale is the author of books including Lean Enterprise Value: Insights from MIT's Lean Aerospace Initiative (with 12 other authors, 2002),[6] Beyond the Lean Revolution: Achieving Successful and Sustainable Enterprise Transformation (with Jayakanth Srinivasan, 2011)[7] and Architecting the Future Enterprise (with Donna H. Rhodes, 2015).[1]