Dr. Lisa R. Brown joins the faculty in our Workforce and Adult Lifelong Education (WALE) program. Her scholarship focuses on adult training and development using Spiral Dynamic Theory, which is a framework for understanding how individuals, cultures, and societies evolve through different stages of thinking and valuing. Her research addresses critical contemporary issues in adult education in several domains, including workplace learning, adult development, and affective uses of social media in adult learning. Brown previously served at the University of Incarnate Word in San Antonio.