My research seeks to understand how time influences team processes, how organizations can improve the effectiveness of diversity, equity, and inclusion practices, and how internal comparisons shape organizational outcomes. I also have an expertise in latent change score modeling, which reliably empirically models dynamic parameters over time.
ORGN 3030 - Critical Leadership Skills
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Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2025 / Spring 2026
Provides an opportunity to learn about leadership as a process of influence within groups and organizations, and engage in hands-on, applied practice of key leadership skills. These skills include self-leadership, social influence, decision-making and ethical dilemmas, motivation and role design, conflict management and relationship-building, crisis leadership and resilience, diversity, equity, and inclusion in organizations, and leading effective teams. Objectives include exploring major approaches to leadership, including trait, behavioral, and follower-centered perspectives, and applying them to contemporary challenges.
ORGN 4300 - Leading Diverse and Inclusive Organizations
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Spring 2026
This course will explore diversity and inclusion from two perspectives: (1) the individual experience of employees with diverse identities in modern organizations, including the ways that organizations can encourage or discourage the inclusion of their employees, and (2) organizational approaches to diversity and inclusion, including how employers effectively or ineffectively harness inclusion to support organizational goals.
