He has extensive knowledge of qualitative and quantitative data gathering, statistical analytic tools, focus group facilitation, and interviewing. His collaborative focus, coupled with his ability to translate strategic plans into resilient organization outcomes, helps organizations analyze their strengths and weaknesses, develop measurement instruments, and make data-informed decisions. I am a published author in various education and management journals. Additionally, he serves as department chair at an Idaho community college where he leads all departmental initiatives. Lloyd is passionate about developing adaptive organizations..

Lloyd began developing resilience-thinking leadership models to offer organizations tools to enhance their strategic planning processes to better absorb disruptions and Adaptive Governance strategies to build adaptive leadership approaches through resilience-thinking and mindful organizing.

His professional experience includes educational contexts in leadership, administration, and planning. At present, he serves as the division chair for English and Humanities. He is interested in how resilience-thinking leaders can build resilience-thinking mindsets throughout an organization to mitigate the effects of disruptions and uncertainty that leave many organizations floundering. His research developed a rapid assessment instrument in order to assess the potential within an organization to build resilience-thinking leadership capacity and mobilize collaborative decision-making, especially during times of crisis or disruption. His study validated an initial rapid assessment tool based on assessing a resilience-thinking leadership mindset.

He holds a Doctor of Philosophy and Masters of Arts degrees in Leadership and Change from Antioch University, a Master of Arts degree in Linguistics and Literature from the University of Montana, and two Bachelor of Science degrees, one in English and one in Education, from Southern Oregon University.