Terry Newell

Terry Newell is currently president of his own firm, Leadership for a Responsible Society. His work focuses on leadership, ethics, and decision making.

He served as an Air Force officer and then worked on education reform for the U.S. Department of Education, eventually becoming director of its internal training arm, the Horace Mann Learning Center. In 1994, he became the Dean of Faculty of the Federal Executive Institute, the government's premiere residential center for executive education.

His first book was an authored and edited volume, The Trusted Leader: Building the Relationships That Make Government Work. Since then, he has published Statesmanship, Character and Leadership in America and To Serve with Honor: Doing the Right Thing in Government. He has also published two collections of short essays, Reflections on America and Searching for Simplicity: Life's Lessons for Living Fully.

Terry maintains a website: www.thinkanew.org that is devoted to short reflections on America, its present and future, covering such areas as character, civic virtue, justice, government, statesmanship, pursuing happiness, and how we think.

When not writing or teaching, he does stained glass. He believes that Bloody Mary got it right in South Pacific: "If you don't have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?"