About the Author

Dr. Steding is an advisor and scholar who has worked with public and private organizations on a range of issues from global risk assessment, mergers and acquisitions, executive development, and strategic and operational planning. He has extensive business experience having run large companies as well as founding and operating small companies. His intellectual interests include the American character, international relations, presidential decision making, human development in the natural world, and late-life transcendence. His academic credentials include degrees in marketing & finance as well as diplomatic history. He is the creator of cognetic profiling™ that provides a powerful diagnostic tool to explain complex decision-making based on the beliefs, convictions and modus operandi of the executive or leader. He is a former senior fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of a number of essays and book reviews as well as  American Avenue: Rhythm and Reason (2007), his 2014 monograph, Presidential Faith and Foreign Policy, and his 2020 monograph, Saving America in the Age of Deceit.

Steding, who has lived in many great American cities from Seattle to Washington DC, currently resides in Colorado. He enjoys a number of outdoor activities, especially skiing, hiking, biking, and fly-fishing. He is a certified helicopter pilot, dabbles in digital photography, and, when his restless mind requires, writes essays at his blog, ameritecture.com.