Dr. Xiaoxuan Li is a management scholar whose work spans organizational behavior, leadership, social comparison, AI-related workplace psychology, and crisis management, with a strong record of empirical and conceptual contributions published in international journals and leading conference proceedings. Her professional experience includes academic appointments and research positions in university and governmental research settings, where she has engaged in policy-oriented analysis, internal reference report writing, and extensive collaborative research on leadership dynamics, team outcomes, and employee psychology. Her research interests center on informal leadership emergence, servant leadership, leader communication via social media, employees’ emotional and motivational responses to AI adoption, gig workers’ social comparison and knowledge-sharing behaviors, and the “catfish effect” of AI in shaping employee striving and performance. She has developed solid research skills including quantitative and experimental design, scale development and validation, multilevel modeling, organizational survey design, and theory-driven qualitative analysis. Her publications include work in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Acta Psychologica, Journal of General Management, and multiple papers in Academy of Management Proceedings, several of which received Best Paper recognitions. She has contributed to research on crisis leadership, identity formation processes, status dynamics, and team creativity in gig-based contexts, building a cohesive scholarly profile that integrates leadership theory with emerging workplace trends such as platform labor and artificial intelligence. Across her roles, she has demonstrated the ability to bridge academic research and practical policy insights, producing work that informs management practice, organizational development, and evolving human–technology relations in the workplace. Overall, her portfolio reflects a growing and multidisciplinary impact within organizational research, supported by collaborative projects, cross-institutional work, and consistent contributions to top academic conferences. She has achieved  4 Documents.