Lisa Dawn Bevill

Lisa Bevill is a native of California, positive by nature and deeply curious. She has lived in Europe for over 20 years, working in global environments and contributing to human development through elevating awareness, fostering evidence-based knowledge, and empowering resilience through practice in support of individual flourishing and collective thriving. 

Lisa is the Academic Director of the Center for Health & Well-being at IE University. The Center was founded in 2019 with the mission to develop human skills for flourishing and to support the core IE values in creating a community dedicated to making a positive impact. Since taking on this role, Lisa has guided the Center’s exponential growth, creating an extensive academic portfolio around the body-mind-soul framework to support a human-centered and holistic approach to flourishing, resilience and positive impact. 

Under Lisa’s leadership, the Center also launched IE University’s first-ever Student Well-being Survey, a data-driven initiative that now tracks key indicators of student well-being across academic years. The survey offers rich insights into life satisfaction, flourishing, academic self-efficacy, resilience, social support, and healthy behaviors. These findings have become essential for understanding how students experience their academic journey, and for shaping evidence-based strategies to support holistic development and long-term thriving. Exploratory research is a top priority to continue to learn not only about student well-being, however also professionals and the role well-being plays in leadership, engagement and performance. 

Lisa is a champion of positive leadership, well-being, learning and personal development. She has been a professor of skills development, leadership, and well-being at IE Business School and IE University since 2008. Lisa also brings her executive and leadership coaching experience into the learning space, having collaborated with leaders in multinationals for over a decade. She holds the PCC coaching certification by International Coaching Federation (ICF). 

She studied at the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University, with minors in International Business and Spanish, before moving to Europe in 2005 where she completed her International MBA at IE Business School. In 2019, Lisa completed her Executive Master in Positive Leadership, Strategy and Transformation at IE School of Human Sciences & Technology. 

Lisa started her career with GenRe, a Berkshire Hathaway company, where she gained valuable experience in corporate operations, engaging with executives and leaders globally on alignment, efficiencies and risk management. During this time of global experience, Lisa was based in Germany with a strong focus on European business. Following her MBA, Lisa leveraged her operational experience while shifting into a more human-centric role in graduate management education. At IE Business School, Lisa contributed to a strategic portfolio transformation and selection process for international candidates in general management programs. Given her focus on human development, Lisa continued to focus on skill facilitation and corporate training, giving way to a greater focus on leadership development through training and coaching. 

Lisa stepped in to lead the Center for Health & Well-being in 2021 to build a strategic approach to holistic, human development at IE University, crafting an integrated academic portfolio transversally, a robust data collection and insights process and a platform to showcase and deepen learning opportunities for growth and practice of human skills. 

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs):
3 – Good Health and Well-Being
4 – Quality Education
5 – Gender Equality
11 – Sustainable Cities & Communities