Evidence for how people learn, lead, and recover at work.

I’m the Fred ’78 and Sue Newton Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management in the University of Rhode Island’s College of Business. I came to URI from applied research. At the U.S. Army’s Center for the Army Profession and Leadership, I developed and validated leadership assessments and helped turn research into feedback leaders could use. Before that, I spent three years with Leidos at the Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory, building leadership competency models and studying what helps sailors succeed in the submarine training pipeline.

My research asks three connected questions. How do we design training that actually helps people learn? How do we measure people accurately and fairly when decisions about their careers depend on it? And what do people need, at work and away from it, to stay motivated and recover? I earned my Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology at the University at Albany, SUNY, and my M.S. in experimental psychology at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.

That background shapes how I research and teach: I design studies whose results organizations can act on, and I bring real assessment programs and workplace problems into the classroom. I live in Rhode Island with my family.