Sahar Ahadi is a postdoctoral fellow at the Ted Rogers Leadership Center. She holds a MA in Adult Education and Professional Development from Shahid Beheshti Univeristy in Iran, and received her PhD in Human Resource Development from University Putra Malaysia. Before joining TRLC, she spent two years as a Postdoc Research Fellow at Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her primary research interests focus on design, implement, and evaluation of on-the-job training, with particular concentration on collaborative learning approaches in different work settings. Other research interests includesStaff empowerment and development, and entrepreneurship in SMEs.