Research Based Consulting (RBC)

Selected Projects & Reports

Organizational Culture Assessment and Leadership Development

Collected organizational culture and provided detailed guidance on the differences between current and desired culture based on competing values prevalent in the organization. Advised organizational leaders on manager competence data to identify interventions for organizational change.

Talent Management: Developing Expertise of Information Officers

Assessed appropriate means to enhance the and utilize the skill-sets of the Marine Corp Intelligence and Psychological Operations Communities. Developed a model for greater acquisition of talent and knowledge and advised on selection and talent management policy.

Nurturing Resilient New Hires

Analyzed newcomer dynamics and conducted resilience studies and introduced resilience-enabling interventions. Advised the client on initiatives to reduce stress by positively frame challenging situations and brokering productive conversations between peers.

Driving Employee Retention

Developed unique model of retention and turnover for the client. Created new method for assessing motivation and satisfaction among the workforce and advised on impactful non-monetary incentives to enhance retention and reduce turnover.

Designing Resilience Interventions

Organized and led an Appreciative Inquiry Resilience Summit to develop small unit solutions for resilience interventions. Devised a mobile application for enhancing resilience using nudge technology through push notifications.

Adoption and Use of Learning Technologies

Developed model and method of analysis to understand the various barriers and facilitators to tech adoption, with specific respect to learning-based technologies. Advised on appropriate ways to implement tech adoption for greater use and enhanced outcomes.

Projects & Reports

  • • Leading Resilient Organizations: From New Normal to Never Normal

    • Coaching Interventions for Challenging Experiences and Post-traumatic Growth

    • Build Your Team’s Resilience - From Home

    • Resilience and Organizational Culture: A Competing Values Perspective

    • Building Strength and Resilience: How HR Leaders Enable Healing in Organizations

    • Reducing Burnout and Creating a Safer Work Environment  

    • Creating the Conditions for Employees to Speak Up with Concerns and Innovations

    • Leading Healing in a Broken Team

    • Organizational Healing: A Relational Process to Handle Major Disruption

    • Sleep Patterns, Mood, Psychomotor Vigilance Performance, and Command Resilience of Watchstanders on the ‘Five and Dime’ Watchbill

    • Dimensions of Small Unit Resilience in Organizations Facing Threats, Disruption, and Stress

    • Resilience among Students

    • Role of Social Networks in Resilience

    • Resilience among New Hires: Interventions and Implications

    • Developing Resilience as a Leader

    • Enhancing Marine Corp Resilience

    • The Generative Potential of Cynical Conversations

    • Resilience Activation and COVID-19

  • • Curbing Unethical Leadership: The interaction between Creative Mindsets and Moral Disengagement

    • How Leaders can Create Psychological Safety and Increase Employee Voice

    • Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes: Successful Succession Planning through Interim Leadership Behavior and Leveraging Existing Human Capital

    • Effective Leadership in Sports Teams

    • A Developmental Analysis of Mid-Level Managers

    • Revitalizing Leadership Development in the Special Operations Forces

    • Leading Effectively in a Digital World

    • Empathetic Leadership in Critical Situations: How Can Leaders Lead with Empathy in Times of Trauma?

    • Motivating Language and Empathic Leadership Drives Effectiveness

    • Organizational Culture and the Modern Air Commandos: Myths and Realities

    • The Impact of Structure and Leadership on Organizational Health & Culture

  • • Implementing Positive Organizational Scholarship at Prudential

    • Engaging an Entire Organizational System: Innovations on the Appreciative Inquiry Summit

    • Appreciative Inquiry: A Revolutionary Model for Strategic Action

    • Dialogic Democracy Meets Command and Control: Transformation through the Appreciative Inquiry Summit

    • Responding to Counterterrorism Threats: Effects of Coalition Trust and Mistrust on Organizational Design

    • Organizational Policies that Drive and Mitigate Work-Family-Conflict

    • Organizational Policies that Facilitate Work-Family Enrichment

  • • Female Retention in the Marine Corp: Exploratory Study of Early Supervisors and Mentors

    • Gender Differences in Work-Life Balance and their Impact on Female Occupational Choice and Retention

    • Maximizing Female Retention in the Navy

    • Enhancing Retention among Marine Corp Reservists

    • Invisible Thread: Pre-Service Success Indicators Among High-Level Leaders

    • The Impact of Education and Career-related Training on Retention

    • Work-life Balance and the Effects on Retention in the Navy Nurse Corps

    • Why Workers Choose to Integrate or Segment Work and Family to Achieve Greater Balance

    • Retaining People in Volunteer Roles

    • Using Proactive Career Behaviors to Develop Resources and Attain Work-Life Balance

    • The Drivers and Mechanisms of Job Search and Turnover in a Boundaryless World

    • Leveraging Networks to Achieve Job Search Success

  • • Does Size Really Matter: Assessing Workforce Quality v. Quantity

    • Talent Management within the Marine Corp Psychological Warfare Community

    • The High Performer Track: An Analysis of Training Methods

    • Assessing Mentorship Programs: Planned vs. Actual Use and Perceived Effectiveness

    • The Role of Calling in Organizational Engagement

    • The Unintended and Unexpected Outcomes of Workforce Hiring Freeze

    • Perceptions of Qualifications v. Competence

    • Strategic Retirement Reform: Identifying the Strategic Effects of Changes in Human Capital

    • Remodeling the Career Path to Management

    • Analyzing Benefits of Reducing Job Rotation Tempo

    • Addressing the Fallout of Sweeping Changes to the Organization’s Retirement System

    • Understanding how the Boundaryless World affects 21st Century Careers

    • Effective Use of E-Mentoring

    • Using Mentor-Networks and Role Models to Enhance Career Aspirations

  • • Assessing the Potential of Virtual Worlds for Training and Education

    • Learning Technology Adoption: Enablers, Barriers & Resistance

    • Lifeline: A Tool for Logistics Professionals

    • Learning Competencies Used in Virtual Schoolhouse Learning Environments

    • Factors Affecting Training Effectiveness in Synchronous, Dispersed Virtual Environments

    • A Qualitative Analysis of NASA’s Human Computer Interaction Group: Examining the Root Causes of Focusing on Derivative System Improvements Versus Core User Needs

    • An Examination of Technical Product Knowledge of the Organizational Workforce

    • Harnessing the Transformative Tsunami: 360-Degree Feedback Revisited

    • A Holistic View of Employee Coaching