He specializes in leadership. He is known for his work on charisma, transformational leadership, instrumental leadership, leader distance,[8][9] and leader research methods. He has communicated his methods work to a wide audience in a podcast on endogeneity and causality.] His article "Predicting Elections: Child's Play"published in the prestigious journal Science engendered a lot of interest because it showed that little children were able to predict results of election outcomes merely by rating the faces of the politician candidates; refer to his podcast for further information