Her research includes two primary lines of inquiry: leadership emergence and personality. In particular, she investigates the process through which individuals emerge as leaders within organizations and how personality impacts employee, team, and firm-level outcomes. She is also interested in understanding the role that surface level individual differences (e.g., gender; disability; race; age) have in the workplace.

Her work has been featured in top academic outlets including the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Psychological Bulletin.