She earned her PhD in Industrial Organizational Psychology with a minor in quantitative methods from The University of Oklahoma. Dawn's research interests are primarily in the areas of leadership and innovation, with particular interest in destructive leadership. Within leadership, she is exploring the darker side including reactions to criticism and different types of leader errors as related to performance outcomes. Innovation research includes a focus upon how to foster this characteristic across a range of contexts. Additionally, she has researched cognitive processes such as intuition and its relationship to creativity. Her research findings appear in journals such as The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Creativity Research Journal, and Human Resource Management Review. Profile site