Ingrid Guerra-López, PhD

Ingrid Guerra-López, PhD

Ingrid Guerra-López, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, is an internationally recognized performance improvement specialist and best-selling author. Her work focuses on improving human and organizational performance through strategic alignment.  She is a leading expert in core processes like needs assessment and analysis, and performance monitoring and evaluation (M&E), and emphasizes the use of data linked to key performance indicators as a basis for selecting organizational initiatives and programs. Dr. Guerra-López has worked internationally for nearly 20 years with clients in all sectors including the United States Agency for International Development, The World Bank, U.S. Naval Education and Training Command; General Motors, Chrysler, Mercedes Benz, Comau, Loro Piana, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Amway International among many others. She has dedicated her career to applying evidence-driven performance improvement practices internationally in 34 countries, across 5 continents.

She has served on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) and has served as Editor-in-Chief of ISPI’s research journal Performance Improvement Quarterly.  In 2017, she was recognized with one of ISPI’s highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award.  Her most recent book is titled Partner for Performance: Strategically Aligning Training to the Business.  She is also co-author of the best-seller Needs Assessment for Organizational Success. She has authored other widely used books that have become performance evaluation standards such as, Performance Evaluation: Proven Approaches for Improving Program and Organizational Performance. Additionally, she has published nearly 100 articles in some of most prestigious journals in performance improvement, evaluation, and management and made hundreds of presentations and keynotes nationally and internationally.