International leaders and managers are increasingly vital given the globalization of organizations, glaring national talent gaps, and ageing populations. Given the important roles these actors play in cross national organizations, my research approach tends to lie on the interface of international business, (international) human resource management and organizational behaviour.

My work elucidates relationships between the personal backgrounds and characteristics of international leaders and organizational level phenomena. I investigate problems relevant to international employees and leaders, for instance, how international talent (expatriates/inpatriates) integrate into challenging host country organizational environments to succeed, or how leaders of business units leverage vital international experience to drive better organizational outcomes. To better understand these boundary spanning processes, country and organizational culture is an ever present factor across my work.