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
Corporate Social Responsibility and Responsible Leadership
The Corporate Social Responsibility And Responsible Leadership team is dedicated to discovering the relationship between a leader’s interpretation of corporate social responsibility and the successfulness of the leadership.
Celine Wang ‘26
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.
Han (Andy) Tu ‘24
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.
Max Jackman '25
Ariel Santiago ‘26
Assessment Team
The Assessment Team is responsible for assessing the effectiveness of the leadership development plan and programming that KLI offers its students.
Shiah Sarkowsky ‘25
Mia Nelson '25
Sik Wan (Sylvana) Poon '26
Harry Patel '27
Responsible Leadership in Tech
Jacob Detrinidad '25
Julia Mehlman ‘25
Emre Kocer '27
Jonas Rickert '28
Jai Rui (Jasmine) He '28
Followership
Lukas Huntington '25
Kat Kirkpatrick POM’25
