Research

Thank you for your interest in my work! I am fascinated by how interactions and relationships with coworkers can support, constrain, and even change how workers define and express themselves.

For instance, I have studied how employees navigate expressing non-work identities at work given the risks and benefits; how many workers segment their personal and professional worlds, but are then blindsided by boundary-blurring situations like friend requests from coworkers on social media; and how employees may reconstruct their professional identity when their working environment undergoes cultural and structural changes.

I use a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods—including interviews, surveys, and experiments—to investigate my research questions.

My aim with this research is to uncover how organizations can better facilitate thriving and growth at work for their employees. To this end, I have partnered with various organizations to conduct this research. If you share my interest in the benefits of a more human and relational orientation to work, I'd love to connect with you.