On Leadership 2nd Ed: What's Broken in Our Society and How We Fix It (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781976052453)

Pete Bowen has been practicing and teaching leadership for more than 30 years. An expert on ethics, leadership and culture, Bowen has been a guest on national television and radio shows including the O'Reilly Factor, Discovery Channel and Fox News Channel, and been a featured speaker at academic and professional conferences. For 14 years, Bowen served as the CEO/President of Servite High School, a leadership and college prep school in Anaheim, California. At Servite, Bowen introduced leadership and formation programs that revolutionized the development of next-generation leaders. Since 1998, Bowen has served as an instructor teaching leadership to law enforcement executives in the Command College course for the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. He has received the Outstanding Instructor Award twice. Bowen taught leadership, military history and ethics at Duke University where he was a visiting assistant professor and the officer-in-charge for the Department of Naval Science. He also taught at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) and North Carolina State University. Bowen served eleven years on active duty as an officer in the United States Marine Corps where he was an AV-8B Harrier pilot and instructor. He retired from the Marine Corps Reserves after 24 years of total service. Bowen served as the initial ethics officer for the Los Angeles Unified School District where he was responsible for creating the first ethics program for a public education agency. He established leadership and ethics training, public accountability programs, and programs that increased the ethics, efficiency and effectiveness of the district. During his career, Bowen has led departments in information systems, logistics, operations and training, personnel administration, plant management and substance abuse counseling. Bowen received his M.A. from Duke University and his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, concentrating his interdisciplinary studies at both schools on leadership, ethics, intellectual history and culture.