Lisa Petrides, Ph.D., is president and founder of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), an independent non-profit educational research institute located in the San Francisco Bay Area. She leads ISKME's applied research, innovative projects, and field-building initiatives in the area of information use and knowledge sharing in education. A former professor in the Department of Organization and Leadership at Columbia University, Teachers College, Petrides received her Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University and an MBA from Sonoma State University. Petrides is also a painter and sheet metal artist who exhibits her work in New York and California, and recently completed her first triathlon.