About Me 

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I'm a people scientist studying leadership and talent strategy.

At Harvard Business School, I study why some leaders rise to senior roles and what determines whether they thrive once they get there. My work focuses on executives from first-generation and low-income backgrounds—leaders who reach the top without traditional sponsorship—and the long-term costs of getting there alone.

At ghSMART, I've analyzed a subset of 30,000+ executive assessments to identify behavioral patterns associated with C-suite advancement. 

I translate these insights into evidence-based frameworks that help organizations 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. The course has earned a 4.9/5 student rating across two cohorts.

My work has been published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Harvard Business Review, Harvard Case Collections, and I've shared it with audiences including the United Nations and Fortune 500 leadership teams.

Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, Harvard Business School. A.B. in Psychology, Princeton University.