Lisa Jones Christensen

Lisa Jones Christensen

Director of Business for Good Initiative,
Ballard Center for Social Impact
Farr Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship,
Management

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Biography

Lisa Jones Christensen is the Lorin Farr Associate Professor of Management at the BYU Marriott School of Business, where she teaches in the Entrepreneurship department and is Director of Business for Good at the Ballard Center for Social Impact. Her current work focuses on human capital, trauma-informed leadership, workplace wellbeing, and the organizational consequences of chronic pressure, including how sustained threat environments erode employee voice, and quietly undermine the human capital that organizations depend on. She is the author of a forthcoming book on trauma-informed leadership for business leaders and managers.

Professor Christensen is an organizational psychologist who received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also has an MBA and a Masters of International Development from BYU and an undergraduate degree from University of California Berkeley. Before working in academia, she spent a decade in business development in Silicon Valley, and during her MBA she founded a social enterprise focused on international social finance. Her research has taken her into refugee communities, base-of-pyramid markets in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the developing world. She holds advanced certifications in trauma-informed practice and publishes on topics of entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, organizational behavior, and workplace wellbeing. She also has several coaching certifications and coaches regularly for local firms.

Selected Publications

Awards

  • Lorin Farr Fellowship, Marriott School, 2024
  • Utah's 40 over 40 Women To Watch, 40 Over 40, 2023
  • Appointed by Dean Madrian to Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Kappa Phi, 2022
  • Best Paper Award, Entrepreneurship Division- Academy of Management, 2022
  • Emmeline B. Wells Grant Recipient, Office of the Associate Academic Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, 2021

Languages

  • Spanish