About Me    

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I'm a people scientist.

I study traits of high potential talent—and why the path to the top may undermine your ability to lead once you're there.

At ghSMART, I've analyzed a subset of 30,000+ executive assessments to uncover the behavioral traits that predict who reaches the C-suite. At Harvard Business School, I found that competitive incentives (e.g. promotions, bonuses) drive top talent to isolate themselves, which may compound over a career into what I term a self-sufficiency trap: the independence that fuels their rise eventually undermines the relational demands of senior leadership.

I translate these insights into evidence-based frameworks that help organizations better develop and retain top talent.

I also bring this work into the classroom. At Harvard Extension School, I designed and teach Harnessing Employee Talent: The Diversity Advantage—a 15-week course for full-time HR leaders on why well-intentioned diversity initiatives fail and how to build systems where inclusive behavior becomes the default (4.9/5 instructor rating).

My work has been published in Harvard Business Review, Harvard Case Collections, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Academy of Management Proceedings; I've been invited to share this work with audiences including the United Nations and Fortune 500 leadership teams.

Ph.D., Harvard Business School. A.B. in Psychology, Princeton University (minors in Neuroscience & Cognitive Science).