Research Overview:
My research and scholarly work blend feminist research methodologies with trauma-informed and embodied research practices that center the psychological safety and lived experiences of empathetic women leaders.
Core areas of inquiry include:
- Embodied leadership
- Leadership and spirituality
- Psychological safety of empathetic women leaders
- Trauma-informed leadership
- Anti-racist feminisms
- Interpersonal boundaries in family and workplace culture
- Gender and organizational psychology
- Shadow side of servant-leadership models
- Strength-based women's identity formation
Current Research Projects (click to view):
Reconstituting Self Beyond Toxic Workplace Culture
Dismantled: Abusive Church Culture and the Clergy Women Who Leave
Sacred Feminine Spirituality and Embodied Resilience for Women Leaders Navigating Change
Exploitation of Empathetic Women Leaders and the Shadow Side of Servant Leadership
Indigenous Roots of Embodied Social Change
Core Research Methodologies:
Grounded Theory: Grounded Theory is a highly rigorous qualitative research method as it prioritizes the lived experiences of research participants through in-depth interviews and line-by-line analysis. This methodology re-centers voices that have been historically silenced, marginalized, or misappropriated in earlier research methods and has the capacity to provide new social theory that deconstructs oppressive social narratives.
Participatory Narrative Inquiry: Participatory Narrative Inquiry is an experiential research and community-engagement methodology where groups of people collect, interpret, and work with their own raw, personal stories to make collective sense of complex situations. Participatory Narrative Inquiry (PNI) involves a decentralized and co-creative research process that seeks to reduce power differentials between the researcher and research participants. It also upholds elements a feminist epistemology as it centers women's voices as a critical form of knowledge production and prioritizes participants' own meaning-making process and interpretive lenses.
Publications (click to view):
Journal of Management Spirituality and Religion
Leadership at the Spiritual Edge: Emerging and Non-Western Concepts of Leadership and Spirituality
Dismantled: Abusive Church Culture and the Clergy Women Who Leave
Transformative Women Leaders Book Series
Re-Membered: A Map of Embodied Social Change (Forthcoming)
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