Biographie de Bénédicte Gendron
Former Vice-President of the University of Montpellier III in France, Benedicte GENDRON, University Professor since 2005, earned her Ph'D in Economics of Human Resources and Education from the University Paris I -Pantheon-Sorbonne and completed in the US, as a funded fellow of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a post-doctoral research at UC. Berkeley – Graduate School of Education and NCRVE-National Center for Research on Vocational Education.
Trained in Mindfulness in the US and Europe, while at the University of Montpellier III, she earned a second Ph'D in Psychology & Neurosciences, and specialized her research on emotional competencies, transversal and soft skills developments and their personal and socio-economics impacts. She is the author of the economic concept of Emotional Capital. For this work, she received in Paris both the prestigious research scientist prize from the French Academy (2006) and twice the award of the French Association of Health Education at School and University –AFPSSU- (2011 and 2012).
She also joined Daniel Goleman' Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations. Interested in well-being, humanistic and eudaimonic economics' developments, her research focused on the emotional capital and its impacts on education, at work, on creativity and heatlh and well-being issues. She serves on the editorial boards of various scientific journals and her research on Emotional Capital applied on several domains has been published in numerous articles, book chapters and books.
One of her last books is about Mindful Management and Emotional Capital at work published by De Boeck.