Stephanie is a researcher with a background in developmental and educational psychology. Prior to joining CCL, she was an assistant professor in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. She is also a Mindset Scholars Network fellow, youth coach, and mentor. Her work has focused primarily on helping students navigate key life transitions and identifying contextual barriers to students’ success at the classroom, institutional, and policy levels. Most recently, Stephanie has partnered with educators to support students over the transition from high school to postsecondary settings and the workplace.

Stephanie enjoys using advanced statistical methods to help clients solve real-world problems. She has been involved in assessing social influences through network analysis, documenting heterogeneity through person-oriented approaches, tailoring interventions through improvement science and randomized controlled trials, and evaluating motivation through pragmatic measurement. Stephanie also enjoys working hands-on with clients to help them identify and achieve their long-term goals.

Andy has over a decade of experience working as an organizational scientist identifying data-driven solutions that help companies address some of their most pressing challenges while also advancing the existing research on important topics. Prior to joining CCL, Andy was a member of the faculty at Louisiana State University.

Andy’s research interests and expertise centers on four main topics:

• work groups and teams,

• social class in the workplace,

• quantitative methods, and

• informal forms of leadership.

As such, some of his most recent work has focused on how people from different social class backgrounds can obtain, or be denied, informal positions of influence within teams