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.
Corporate Leadership
The Corporate Leadership Team researches the effect and importance of empathy in corporate environments. The team compares the impacts of empathy with how it is perceived by top business leaders.
Sam Johnson '22 - Research Team Lead
Uddhav Gupta '21
Tatum Hall '23
Rohaan Vaswani '22
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.
Emily Malech '22
Jayaditya Maliye '23
Fight League
Fight League develops leadership curriculum for The United States Fight League, focusing on character building for athletes. The team proposed a curriculum that emphasizes three main components: resilience, respect, and responsibility. These R’s are the foundation for their curriculum and for each section there are drills and discussion questions that promote these skills in young athletes.
Roxanne Camarena Castillo '21
Taylor Frank '21
Izabella Sakoda '23
Elizabeth Song '22
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.
Raina Kim '22
Danielle Klappstein '23
Samay Rahim '22
Belinda Wang '23
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.
Emma David '21
Leyna Hong '23
Vi Nguyen '21
Bilge Tayyar '24
