Dr. Thomas Rowley is a former university professor, entrepreneur, CPA and veteran. He has a passion for helping families and youth develop their critical thinking, and through his extensive university faculty experience and business background, has impacted thousands of lives across the Americas with his approach and frameworks. In between writing and speaking, you can find Dr Rowley in the sky as a private pilot or on the ground as an apprentice horseman developing equine facilities for helping trauma victims and disabled children. He lives in Panama with his wife, stepson and old beagle Snickers.

Tom is an adventurer. His first adult job was teaching pilots and crewmembers how to bail out of a disabled aircraft and survive once they got on the ground. He’s been sharing what he knows with audiences in a variety of settings ever since. He was a volunteer construction supervisor for Habit for Humanity for a decade while on the faculty of Georgia State University in Atlanta.

He earned a BS degree in accounting with a minor in economics at U of Maryland and an MBA from the U of Miami. He built a successful CPA tax and management consulting practice. After a decade and a half in business he returned to study and earned a Masters - Human Resource Management and a PhD in business from the U of Utah. He has served on faculties at U Utah, and Georgia State University and published academic and professional articles related to management of financial information.