Jacob is a field-oriented, quantitative researcher who studies how leaders and teams can proactively and strategically use their emotions to enable key organizational outcomes (performance, well-being, voice) over time. His work has been published in leading management outlets such as Organization Science and Harvard Business Review. He grew up in a small college town in New England and earned his undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to starting the PhD he worked in Virginia for Capital One focusing on data analytics and machine learning.