Two decades of peer-reviewed research on retention, embeddedness, social networks, and the design of high-performance organizations, translated for practitioners.
Co-author of the foundational Why people stay paper introducing the fit / links / sacrifice framework that has become a standard predictor of voluntary turnover in management research and practice.
How information flows, trust forms, and conflict resolves inside culturally diverse teams. Published in the Journal of Applied Psychology and the International Journal of Conflict Management.
Executive-facing translations of the research, for boards, HR leaders, and the leaders of the AI era. Published in Harvard Business Review, taught at Northwestern Mutual, Aurora Health Care, Briggs & Stratton.
Drafts, datasets, and pre-prints are available on request for academic and practitioner use. Reach out, happy to share.
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