About
Associate Professor of Leadership and Human Resource Development at Louisiana State University. Visiting Professor at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.
My research focuses on human resource development, leadership, and human development across Southeast Asia and ASEAN — examining how nations and institutions build human capability under different cultural, political, and economic conditions, and what other regions can learn from those dynamics.
I'm an Associate Professor of Leadership and Human Resource Development at Louisiana State University and a Visiting Professor at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. My doctorate is from George Washington University in Human and Organizational Learning; my master's from Harvard in Human Development and Psychology.
Before LSU, I taught at GW in Washington and, before that, at Payap University in Chiang Mai for four years. My interest in HRD took root during that time, through fieldwork with community-based organizations on the Thai-Myanmar border and inside Myanmar — work that continues to shape the questions I ask today.
Research
01
Comparative work across the ASEAN 11 on how nations build human capability — through institutions, education systems, leadership, and culture. The regional context generates dynamics that single-country research and Western frameworks regularly miss.
02
Leadership development and adult learning as developmental, transformative processes — especially in complex cross-cultural settings and in service of paradox, ambiguity, and change.
03
Workplace learning under digitalization, remote and hybrid work, and emerging employment arrangements — including gig economies, AI-augmented work, and what it means to develop a worker now.
Editorial & service
Editing, reviewing, and shaping the conversation in HRD scholarship.
Associate Editor
Human Resource Development Review Current
Editorial Board
Advances in Developing Human Resources (ended 2026)
Editorial Board
Human Resource Development International Current
Editorial Board
Industrial and Commercial Training Current
Board of Directors
Academy of Human Resource Development (2021–2024)
Education
2018
Doctor of Education — Human and Organizational Learning
The George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
2012
Master of Education — Human Development and Psychology
Harvard University Graduate School of Education
Cambridge, Massachusetts
2008
Bachelor of Arts — Theology, Minor in Biblical Languages
Whitworth University
Spokane, Washington
A full CV with publications, presentations, teaching, and service is available on Dropbox. The auto-updated publication record lives on Google Scholar and ORCID.