Her research interests include leadership, teams, and linguistic issues in survey development. Dr. Ford has served on the executive committee of the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management, and as the co-chair of the pre-doctoral consortium hosted by Southern Management Association. She has delivered numerous workshops on research methods and scale development at both regional and national conferences. Her work has been published in The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, among others. She received her BBA in human resources management from East Tennessee State University, and her PhD in organizational behavior from Virginia Commonwealth University.