RESEARCH
Questions Worth Investigating. Research Worth Applying.
Research did not begin with my dissertation. It began with questions that emerged while teaching students, supporting employees, advising leaders, and helping organizations navigate change.
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WHERE MY RESEARCH BEGINS
Observation became inquiry.
Across industries and organizational settings, I repeatedly encountered similar challenges involving communication, organizational alignment, leadership, workforce capability, governance, organizational learning, and business process performance.
Rather than accepting those experiences as isolated observations, I became increasingly interested in understanding why they occurred and how organizations might respond more effectively. Doctoral scholarship provided the opportunity to investigate these questions systematically.
SCHOLARSHIP & PRACTICE
Research should advance knowledge and improve understanding.
Scholarship
Rigorous methodology, thoughtful analysis, theoretical grounding, and contribution to scholarly dialogue.
Practice
Evidence that helps educators, leaders, professionals, and organizations understand complex environments and make thoughtful decisions.
DISSERTATION RESEARCH
Business Process Performance: Breaking Silos Through Strategic Organizational Conversation.
The dissertation examined relationships among strategic organizational conversation, organizational agility, internal controls, knowledge absorptive capacity, process modularity, top management mindfulness, and business process performance.
Using survey data from 339 workers across at small, medium, and large U.S. companies and Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM), the study established the empirical foundation for a continuing program of applied organizational research.
The dissertation was not the conclusion of scholarly inquiry. It was the beginning of a broader research agenda.
METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
Rigorous inquiry grounded in organizational questions.
WHY THIS RESEARCH MATTERS
Organizations invest significantly in transformation, technology, governance, leadership, and workforce capability. My research seeks to strengthen understanding of the organizational conditions that help those investments produce sustainable performance.
The continuing agenda connects evidence-based scholarship with questions that matter to educators, leaders, professionals, and organizations navigating complexity and change.
RESEARCH IN PRACTICE
A continuous cycle of inquiry and contribution.
Professional leadership, consulting, and organizational transformation generate meaningful questions worthy of scholarly investigation. Rigorous research transforms organizational observation into empirical evidence that advances both scholarship and practice. Evidence returns to organizations through teaching, executive advisory, publications, and continued professional engagement.
Together, professional practice, scholarly inquiry, teaching, and executive advisory form a continuous cycle in which experience informs research, research informs practice, and both contribute to organizational learning and sustained organizational impact.
RESEARCH JOURNEY
A continuing cycle of inquiry, evidence, and contribution.
- 1Practice-Based Questions
Questions emerged through public service, education, human resources, enterprise consulting, leadership, and organizational transformation.
- 2Doctoral Research
Rigorous inquiry established the empirical foundation for a continuing research agenda.
- 3Research Development
Dissertation findings and related organizational questions are being developed into continuing scholarship and applied contribution.
- 4Future Agenda
Research will continue across organizational effectiveness, governance, strategic organizational communication, enterprise transformation, leadership, workforce capability, responsible artificial intelligence, and the future of work.
EXPLORE THE RESEARCH AGENDA
Questions that connect organizational scholarship and practice.
Select a research area to explore its focus, related questions, and connection to the continuing research agenda.
RESEARCH FOCUS
Continuing Interests
Related Questions
AREAS OF INQUIRY
A continuing interdisciplinary research agenda.
Organizational Effectiveness
How people, leadership, governance, communication, and systems support sustainable performance.
Business Process Performance
Capabilities influencing operational effectiveness and performance.
Leadership
Leadership as a catalyst for learning, alignment, responsibility, and sustained performance.
Human Resource Management
Workforce capability, organizational development, and strategic people practices.
Strategic Organizational Communication
Communication as strategic infrastructure for collaboration and alignment.
Workforce Transformation
Readiness, skills, technology, and the evolving nature of work.
Governance
Accountability, stewardship, internal controls, resilience, and agility.
Artificial Intelligence & Organizations
How AI/ML-enabled capabilities interact with people, leadership, governance, workforce strategy, organizational learning, risk, and performance.
Organizational Learning
How organizations acquire, share, absorb, and apply knowledge.
RESEARCH COLLABORATION
Interested in continuing the scholarly conversation?
I welcome thoughtful opportunities to collaborate with faculty, universities, researchers, doctoral students, executive leaders, and organizations whose interests align with organizational effectiveness, governance, strategic organizational communication, enterprise transformation, and evidence-based leadership.
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Continue the scholarly conversation
Explore publications, the evolving framework, or the professional experience that informs the research.