Rigorous research that you can actually use
I lead research that is rigorous enough to withstand peer review and relevant enough to hold the attention of senior executives, nonprofit leaders, and policymakers.
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Research professionals are often told to choose: academy or industry. I have spent my career refusing that tradeoff. I currently manage mixed-methods research on board governance, social entrepreneurship, and how organizations measure their impact. That work is shaped by a decade of cross-disciplinary scholarship on social capital, community economic development, and impact evaluations.
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Regardless of forum, the questions are the same: How do organizations build capacity? How should they measure performance? What should leaders do with the answers?
And if the honest answer is “it depends,” what's their next step?
