Specialize in leadership development, gender and diversity research, and action research around the dual agenda of improving both personal lives and organizational work processes. Recent engagements include:• Designing and implementing women’s leadership development programs for media, healthcare, and financial services companies• Comprehensive literature review to understand second-generation gender issues and develop tools and strategies for leaders to create change in their organizations• Action research with organizations with objective of maximizing team performance and increasing workplace flexibility

Partnered with HBS Organizational Behavior senior faculty member, Leslie Perlow, on significant scholarly research around flexible work arrangements, organizational effectiveness, work-life balance in professional services, team learning and creating organizational change. Long-term project began with ethnographic research, led to experiments around taking predictable time off, and ultimately resulted in global change management initiative. Primary research site was a top global management consulting firm; additional research in firms focused on alternative work arrangements.• Action research focus: designed and facilitated interventions on project teams to simultaneously benefit individuals’ personal lives and team work-output• Qualitative research: ethnographic observation, interviewing and facilitating focus groups• Quantitative research: survey design, implementation and analysis• Analysis and synthesis of research findings into journal articles, presentations, and book chapters• Findings and research process summarized in 2012 book: Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work