Dr. Russell Lloyd, Ph.D.
Founder & President

Russ is passionate about serving the men and women God has placed in positions of ministry leadership.

Prior to establishing IBL, Russ served his country for twenty-two years on active duty in the Air Force and was Director of Biblical Counseling in his local church.

Russ became increasingly burdened about the need for a ministry dedicated to leaders.  In 1988, God raised up the Institute of Biblical Leadership.  In this ministry, pastors, missionaries, mission and para-church ministry leaders all receive personal and organizational help through principles from God’s Word – the sole source-book of life.  The ministry of IBL is centered on God’s Word as the complete and inerrant Truth.

Russ’ Air Force career included duty as an advisor to the Vietnamese Air Force for the year he was in Vietnam during the war, an Assistant Professor of Psychology while on the faculty of the Air Force Academy, Head of the Department of Organizational Sciences at the Air Force’s graduate school, and Commander of an organization that provided consultation in organizational effectiveness throughout the Department of Defense.

As the Executive Director of IBL, David oversees ministry operations and the US-based team members of IBL.  He also works extensively with pastors, missionaries, and leadership teams.

Prior to joining IBL, David worked in the software industry for more than fifteen years, holding various management positions, including VP of Development and VP of Research and Development at two companies.  David has a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois.  In his software career, David has led teams as small as three and as large as seventy.  He has extensive experience with building effective teams, establishing and executing efficient organizational processes, and training and mentoring other leaders.

In addition, David has been a lay leader, teacher, and counselor  in  churches for more than twenty-three years.

Like most engineers, David loves to build.  After fifteen years of building software and software development organizations, God gave David a desire to put his energy, experience and giftedness into building things with eternal value:   the lives and souls of God’s leaders.

After serving for three years as volunteer staff members, God led David and Dawn to join IBL on a full-time basis in 2003. David and Dawn now apply their experience and giftedness in the service of pastors, missionaries and other leaders of Christian ministries around the world.

Dawn has a dual role at IBL, assisting in the execution of ministry as a counselor and also serving as the Executive Administrator.

Dawn set aside her professional career seven years ago when she and David adopted their son, Nathaniel, so that she could focus on Nathaniel’s academic, social and spiritual training.

Prior to Nathaniel’s arrival, Dawn enjoyed a successful, fifteen-year career with a large life insurance company. She worked with dozens of agents as an administrative assistant, office manager, trainer, and consultant. As a consultant, Dawn worked with agents and their staff to clarify roles, improve processes, and hire and train personnel.  She now enjoys using her organizational and administrative skills and experience to increase the effectiveness of IBL’s ministry.

As a Christian lay leader for many years, Dawn has organized Sunday school departments, lead in-depth bible studies, and discipled and counseled other women. These experiences are now being leveraged as she ministers to hurting leaders in IBL’s counseling ministry.

David and Dawn have been married for twenty-three years and have served in six different churches as God has relocated them during David’s software career.

Mr. Derick Jarvis

As a Ministry Executive, Derick is responsible for leading ministry activities with individual leaders and ministry teams.

Prior to joining IBL, Derick worked for over twenty-two years in the consumer products industry, holding various sales and sales management positions. As a result of applying biblical principles to his work, Derick was awarded PepsiCo’s “Ring of Honor” award in 2004, recognizing their outstanding achievers worldwide. Through Derick’s sales training and experience God has blessed him with the proven ability to successfully influence decision makers.  Derick attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville and has an ABSC from Moody Bible Institute. 

In addition, Derick has been a lay-leader, deacon and teacher in churches for more than fifteen years.

Like most sales professionals, Derick loves the challenge of successfully influencing decisions. God gave Derick a burden to offer his life a living sacrifice in service to Christ; and in the power of His Holy Spirit influence eternal decisions and victorious living in His body, the church. Derick and his wife June have been married twenty-four years and have two daughters, Jessica twenty-two and Kelsey seventeen.

Doris is the Administrative Assistant to the President of IBL and serves as a Research Associate as well.

Doris is a secondary school educator by formal training, receiving her degree from Washington State University.  She taught junior high school (English and History) for four years.  Prior to that, Doris served as an administrative assistant in different companies for five years and later served as Librarian for a Christian school for four years.

Doris willingly set aside her professional career in 1971 when the first of the Lloyds’ three children came upon the scene.  Until the last of them left the nest in 1987, she poured herself into shaping their character to reflect the Lord Jesus Christ.  For the last fifteen years, she has invested her administrative skills and experience to sustain the ministry of IBL.

Doris has invested much of her life over the years in discipling women and, together with Russ, has discipled couples as well.  She has led several in-depth Bible studies and invests her creative energies in providing hospitality to the many leaders who come to her home to receive the ministry of IBL.

Russ and Doris have been married for thirty-six years.