Biography

Growing up and studying in Jamaica, I double-majored in entrepreneurship and human resource management, which sparked an early fascination with a tension that has since shaped my research: organisations establish rules to operate but can be seen breaking those rules to survive. Working at the Caribbean Policy Research Institute on a comprehensive education policy report, I was able to delve deeper into this paradox and consider its implications in the education sector.With a recent hurricane ravishing western Jamaica, educators in Jamaica's western parishes were abandoning institutional procedures in the face of dire circumstances in order to keep their schools open. Constructive deviance, I realised, was not a failure of organisation. It was a form of resilience that allowed for adaptation and improvisation.As a CJBS PhD student and a Gates Cambridge Scholar, I am creating a theoretical framework that reframes constructive deviance as a mechanism of organisational resilience. This research explores how breaking from traditional norms can help organisations survive and develop. By studying instances from the Global South, notably Jamaica, we may better appreciate how organisations can benefit from constructive deviance.

Previous Education

University of the West Indies, Mona Campus Entrepreneurship 2025
University of the West Indies, Mona Campus Human Resource Management 2025
University of Cambridge ISO