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We’re using novel approaches to research that produce insights to impact leadership worldwide.
Collective Leadership
Exploring myths around teams, changing team dynamics, and predictors of team effectiveness.
Understanding individual and group differences in relationships, psychological safety, and representation.
Assessing the power of relationships between individuals, within teams, and across groups.
Data Innovations and Methodological Advances
Leveraging advanced AI algorithms to model nuanced relationships between leadership constructs.
Pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence and analytic approaches to model critical questions in leadership.
Building individual and organizational skills to explore the power of data for insight and change.
Identifying themes for topics ranging from leadership challenges to corporate equity commitments.
Identifying the best tools and systems for collecting qualitative data that in turn, provides an easier process for analyzing and reporting data.
Using predictive analytics to identify which leadership behaviors are most likely to drive improvement in critical outcomes and maximize ROI.
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Addressing the societal and contextual biases affecting women in leadership, while highlighting actionable steps for change.
Exploring the role of personality traits and biases in explaining derailing leaders’ behaviors.
Investigating the role of financial security and social class for perceptions, barriers, and opportunities in leadership.
Interrogating how organizations articulate, plan, and follow through on commitments to creating equitable and inclusive cultures.
Identifying what young people around the globe want and need most to feel empowered as leaders.
Examining potential biases in data and data science algorithms used in leadership models and new product development.
Impact and Evaluation
Applying new frameworks for measuring the impact of leadership development that go beyond individual and business impact to include societal level outcomes, and reassessing what results matter most.
Collecting data before, during and after programs, to uncover new insights about what is most effective at helping leaders, and their organizations advance in their EDI journeys.
Gathering data from thousands of leaders across the globe to learn about the effectiveness of new approaches to leadership development (e.g., virtual leadership development, digital apps).
Developing tools to drive organizations’ data-driven decisions for their EDI culture change journeys.
Focusing an inward lens to document, reflect, and spur action related to internal culture change and continuous improvement.
Leveraging the latest technology for automating and streamlining leadership feedback processes.