Research

Thank you for your interest in my work! I am fascinated by how the social context of work 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.

My aim with this research is to uncover how employers and employees can co-create workplaces that resource instead of deplete workers and facilitate their growth. I use both qualitative and quantitative methods—including interviews, observations, surveys, and experiments—to investigate my research questions.

I have partnered with various organizations to conduct this research. If you share my passion for making organizations better at helping people become who they're meant to be, I'd love to connect with you.