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.
Tatum Hall '23
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 '23
Jayaditya Maliye '23
Hannah Doyle ’23
Katie Chen '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.
Izabella Sakoda '23
Ruiyang (Viola) Ni ‘25
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.
Danielle Klappstein '23
Belinda Wang '23
Han (Andy) Tu ‘24
Gabrielle Ong '25
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.
Leyna Hong ’23 - Research Team Lead
Kaavya Narayan ‘25
Bilge Tayyar '24
Joy Zhu '24
Quin Mumford PIT ‘24
Siqi (Sonya) Deng ‘26
Assessment Team
William Galbreath '24
Joyce Kim '24
Mia Nelson '25
Shiah Sarkowsky ‘25
New Leadership Topic
Alexander Broegger ‘24
Madeline Dornfeld ‘25