Previously, she served as the director of human resource development for the Army’s Human Terrain System. From 2004 to 2007, she was the director of research and analysis within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness). From 2000 to 2004, she was a research professor at the Naval Postgraduate School. Dr. Laurence spent much of her career as a social science contract researcher concentrating in the military setting. She is the past editor (and current associate editor) of the journal Military Psychology.