I research how employees can make a positive difference through their work without sacrificing themselves in the process. In short, I seek to explain how employees can do good while also doing well.

Expertise

My topics of inquiry are meaningful and sustainable work. I study employees who want to make a positive difference through their work in ways big and small, ranging from employees who view their work as a calling—a source of personal, social or moral significance— to those who engage in everyday acts of helping, kindness, and compassion. I examine the challenges that impede such aims to determine how employees can achieve them without sacrificing themselves in the process. I am a multi-methods scholar, leverage both qualitative (interviews and ethnographic observation) and quantitative data (e.g., field surveys, experience sampling, experiments), and have published inductive, deductive, and conceptual papers. As a secondary focus, this work has led me to also co-author publications on how our field develops and tests organizational theory.

Education

PhD, Organizational Behavior and Human Resources, University of British Columbia, 2016

MSc, Business Administration, Concordia University, 2010

BA, Literature Writing, University of California, 2005

BSc, Psychology, University of California, 2005