Lisa Petrides, Ph.D.
President & Founder
ISKME
Lisa Petrides, Ph.D. is president and founder of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), a non-profit educational research think tank located in Half Moon Bay, CA. ISKME conducts research that seeks to help educational institutions advance their capacities to use data and information to improve student and institutional success. The Institute conducts research studies about how data and information is being used to transform decision-making and align internal and external demands to improve student success. ISKME also conducts organizational impact studies on information technology implementations and evaluations of the overall impact of knowledge management on education programs.
A former professor in the Department of Organization and Leadership at Columbia University, Teachers College, her research and teaching interests are in the areas of information technology, knowledge management, information and decision-making, and issues of access and equity in education. She has worked with a wide array of Internet-based technologies for classroom teaching. She received a Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University and an MBA from Sonoma State University, and was a postdoctoral fellow in Educational Policy Research Division at Educational Testing Service.
Her publications include, The Squeeze of Accountability in Higher Education: The Challenges of Using External Mandates to Create Internal Change, in Planning for Higher Education; Strategic Planning and Information Use: The Role of Institutional Leadership in the Community College, in On The Horizon; What Schools Have to Teach the Corporate World, in KM Review; Knowledge Management in Education: Defining the Landscape, a monograph produced by ISKME; Knowledge Management for School Leaders: An Ecological Framework for Thinking Schools, in Teachers College Record; and Organizational Learning and the Case for Knowledge-Based Systems, in New Directions for Institutional Research.