benedicte.gendron@univ-montp3.fr

Biography

Prof. Dr. Dr. Bénédicte Gendron, as former Vice-President of the University of Montpellier Paul-Valéry (UMPV), she also served as Co-Director of Continuing Higher Education and Head of PEPITE-LR (Student Innovation, Transfer, and Entrepreneurship) She holds two PhDs .She holds a Ph'D in Neuro-psychopathology-UMPV, and is certified in advanced training from Harvard Medical School Wellness & Lifestyle Medicine. She holds a PhD in Economics of Human Resources of Paris School of Economics (University Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne), completed by a postdoctoral fellowship in Education & Measurement at UC Berkeley, USA.
Her pioneering economics concept of Emotional Capital (2002) and research was awarded of Louis Cros Prize at the National French Academy (2006). Her work is on Capacitating Leadership (2015), and at developing the Bienvivance paradigm (2016), a regenerative philosophy and art of co-vivance focus on vitality, meaning and values, cultivating eudaimonic ‘Flowrishing’ (2025) across all living systems through emotional capital development and consciousness elevation. Mobilizing inner resources for outer regenerative transformation, potential and capabilities are converted through a capacitation process into competencies to act: Towards zero-waste of human resource potential, Inclusive Excellence and Regeneration. Rooted in and extending the transformative learning tradition, her research integrates emotional capital, capabilities, and systemic dimensions into what she conceptualizes as regenerative transformative learning. Her work has earned several distinctions (Cros, Elsevier, MGEN, AFPFSSU, ONISEP) and international fellowships (France-Berkeley funds, ASEM-DUO, Caux Initiatives of Change and Salzburg Global Seminar).
Certified as instructor in Emotional Quotient Inventory 2.0 Assessment, MBSR and ACT, and member of Goleman's CREIO since 2006, she serves as external expert for OECD, CERI, European Commission, CEDEFOP, UNESCO and other international, national scientific organizations, and on several editorial boards of scientific journals.

Member of :
- CNRS thematic network on "Questions about Education" ,
- HDCA Human Development Capabilities Association (founded by the Economics Nobel Sen)
-WERA IRN "Inclusive Excellence and Bienvivance from School to Work", founder and co-convenor
- Executive committee of World Global Alliance on Social and Emotional Learning https://karanga.org/our-team,
- International Consortium of Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations-CREIO- https://www.eiconsortium.org/members/gendron.htm
- Scientific Council of UFA Apprenticeship Units Montpellier
- Scientific Council of Maison des sciences de l'Homme, Dijon

Prizes, Awards, Honors, Fellowships and Scholarships:

Prizes & Awards:
2006, Cros Prize, Institut de France, Académie Française, November, Paris;
2012, Research Honor Prize of MGEN & French National Association for the Promotion of Health in the School and University Environment;
2011, Research Honor Prize of Elsevier Editions & French National Association for the Promotion of Health in the School and University Environment;
2000, Finalist thesis, under the aegis of Prime Minister Raymond Barre, at the 1999 National Grand Prix of the National Association of Doctors in Economic Sciences and Management, Paris;
1997, Nominated by the Chancellerie of Paris, for the Gaetan Pirou PhD Prize;
1996, Prize of "Local Development'' of Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations d’Île-de-France, Paris.

Fellowships & Scholarships:
2024, Caux Initiative of Changes Forum Fellowships, Switzerland;
2018, Global Salzburg Seminar Fellowship, Austria;
2014, ASEM DUO scholarship, Thailand Fellowships & Adjoint Professor Burapha University;
2011, Adjunct Professor, Burapha University, Faculty of Education and HRD, Thailand;
1997, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations Scholarships, Paris;
1997, Lavoisier Ministry of Foreign Affairs postdoctoral U.C. Berkeley Scholarships, Paris;
1996, PhD Thesis Research Grant, University Pantheon-Sorbonne, ParisI;
1995, France-Berkeley Funds Fellowships;
1992, Merit' Master Scholarship, Paris School of Economics.

Honors:
2024, World Education Research Association-WERA International Research Network IRN "Inclusive Excellence and Bienvivance from School to Work", founder and co-convenor.
2022, Academician, Chair n°7, Académie des belles lettres, sciences, arts et traditions, Via Domitia Pierre-Paul Riquet, Occitanie.
2021, Conférencière Emérite, Cercle Montpellier Cambacérès.
2017, ONISEP "Coup de coeur" Prize, "L'avenir s'imagine" national contest with her students in sciences of education for "Innovative Vocational Guidance".
2012, Honor in the “Researcher” category of “The 200 women who make Montpellier”, by Public Press Group La Gazette de Montpellier;
2011, Who's Who in the World, 28th edition.