Monika Ardelt, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law at the University of Florida. She received her Diplom (M.A.) in Sociology from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University of Frankfurt/Main in Germany and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. She is a Brookdale National Fellow, a Positive Psychology Templeton Senior Fellow, and a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America. Dr. Ardelt is the developer of the widely used Three-Dimensional Wisdom Scale (3D-WS; Ardelt, 2003), based on the Three-Dimensional Wisdom Model (3D-WM), Th co-editor of the book Faith and Well-Being in Late Life: Linking Theories with Evidence in an Interdisciplinary Inquiry (2009), a deputy editor of the Journal of Family Issues, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Aging Studies, Research in Human Development, and the Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences. Dr. Ardelt has published numerous journal articles and book chapters in the area of successful human development across the life course with particular emphasis on the relations between wisdom, flourishing, well-being, spirituality, aging well, and dying well. She also studies the characteristics of wise organizations and wise leadership and how they affect employees’ work-related and personal well-being.