Lisa M. Beardsley is associate director of education and executive secretary of the Adventist Accrediting Association for the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. She manages the accrediting process for colleges and universities world-wide; serves as the General Conference liaison for higher education for the North American, South Pacific, Trans-European, South-Africa Indian Ocean and West-Central Africa Divisions; edits Dialogue magazine; and chairs the board of the Journal of Adventist Education.

Since 1980, Beardsley has served as an educator at primary, secondary and tertiary levels. She has also held administrative posts at several universities and served as commissioner for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges Accrediting Commission and as a trustee for the C. S. Lewis Foundation. Her research, publications, and presentations are in clinical performance assessment, culture and health, and more recently, faith and learning. She has also provided spiritual care as a hospital chaplain at Lakeland Medical Center in Michigan.

Beardsley received her undergraduate education at Newbold College, England, and the Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies in the Philippines. She received master’s degrees from Loma Linda University and Claremont Graduate University and a doctorate from the University of Hawaii.

In her leisure time she enjoys cross-country skiing, roller-blading, television production, foreign films, and collecting mushrooms.