Her research interests involve aiding organizations in understanding how to best prepare leaders and team members for effective collaborations, particularly in highly complex, demanding, interprofessional and stressful environments. These environments have included health care, the military, the petroleum industry and NASA’s Mission to Mars. Marissa has almost 10 years of experience conducting this type of applied research in the areas of leadership and team development, team-training design, development, delivery and evaluation, multiteam systems operations, virtual teams and multicultural teams.