Research Team

As a research institute, KLI supports and disseminates research through a variety of means. Advancing research in leadership is of great importance to the Institute, and students work directly with KLI faculty and staff on a wide range of leadership research projects. Ongoing research projects include topics in Women and Leadership, Corporate Leadership, Race and Leadership, Mixed Martial Arts, and Early Career Success.

Women and Leadership

The Women and Leadership team seeks to better understand the gender disparity issue in leadership, while uplifting women in leadership along the way.

Kaavya Narayan ’25 -
Research Team Lead

Siqi (Sonya) Deng ’26

Talin Tyvand ’27

Wensheng (Vivian) Gao ’28

Competency Mapping

The Competency Mapping Team’s purpose is to recognize capabilities that determine leadership according to our core values of creativity, collaboration, and courage.

Tanzila Jamal ’26

Antonis (Tony) Pappas ’27

August Rinehart ’27

Nethra Mahendran ’28

Race and Leadership

The Race and Leadership team looks at race relations and racial discrimination in organizational leadership. The team will first research theories by leading scholars to conduct individual and collective studies using different literature.

Gabrielle Ong ’25

Samuel Dominguez ’27

Daniel Wu ’27

Early Career Success

The Early Career Success project is a joint project with the Lowe Institute investigating the early career success of CMC alumni and how it relates to their pre-CMC characteristics as well as their extracurricular and academic experiences at CMC.