At its core, collaboration is about bringing diverse perspectives together to create something new.Diversity may arise along a multiplicity of dimensions, leading to some very similar challenges, and other dimension-specific challenges, each of which require discrete skills to address.Interdisciplinary collaboration, while understudied, has particular workplace relevance.This research seeks to understand what is specific to interdisciplinary collaboration as part of a broader agenda to operationalize key underlying skills that enable interdisciplinary collaboration and subsequently assess and support interdisciplinary collaboration, both in the classroom and in the workplace.The aim of this poster presentation is to engage the community in an intellectual exchange about underlying questions to inform work in progress.