Dennis Mellen

Dennis Mellen is an author, Jon Gordon Power of Positive Leadership trainer, certified athletic mental performance master, and high school baseball coach. Dennis brings years of experience as a twenty-eight-year retired major airline captain, and Fleet Captain, twenty-year-retired Air Force LtCol, and command pilot.

His other leadership experiences include consulting, teaching and coaching high school baseball while developing new leaders with the Civil Air Patrol. As a fleet captain at a major airline, he was the head of training for 550 pilots and forty instructors. The heart attack he experienced in 2008 ended his flying career but he continued searching for a new purpose and new opportunities.

Dennis lives with his wife Heidi in the Chicago suburbs. He has four sons and is a grandfather of a three month old girl.