Developing Tomorrow's Leaders Today
Dr. Philip A. Iannuzzi, Jr.Colonel, U.S. Air Force [Retired]
Leadership Excellence
Empower Your Leadership with
The Model for Sustained Leadership Success
In this compelling book on leadership, Philip A. Iannuzzi, Jr.—an award-winning leader, author, research scholar, retired U.S. Air Force colonel, wartime commander, and military pilot—draws on over 40 years of leadership experience in business, education, and the military to empower current and aspiring leaders with valuable insights and actionable strategies to sustain their leadership success.
While groundbreaking advancements in artificial intelligence, automation, machine learning, and robotics continue to enhance a team's productivity and efficiency, Leadership Excellence emphasizes that a team’s long-term success continues to hinge on one constant: effective leadership.
Drawing from a wide range of literature, research, and leadership practices in business, education, government, the military, and multinational sectors, Iannuzzi introduces The Model for Sustained Leadership Excellence. This comprehensive and integrated framework highlights the core values, enabling attributes, and unifying forces that inform and shape a leader’s decisions, communication, and actions—the instruments of leadership. The model underscores the pivotal role these instruments play in generating the motivation, influence, and inspiration needed to sustain a team’s long-term success. A multi-part implementation strategy provides a path for leaders to operationalize the model’s principles.
Whether leading a small or large business, multinational team, government agency, educational organization, nonprofit, military unit, or any other team, this book empowers leaders to sustain their success over the long term.
About the Author
Philip A. Iannuzzi, Jr. is the founder and president of Bunker Hollow Press, a research, publishing, and consulting enterprise dedicated to leadership development education.
His book, Leadership Excellence: Empower Your Leadership with The Model for Sustained Leadership Success, distills over 40 years of leadership experience in business, education, the military, and multinational organizations into valuable insights and actionable strategies for leaders at all levels.
Before founding Bunker Hollow Press, Iannuzzi served in leadership roles across the military and aerospace industries. A retired Air Force colonel and pilot, he held key positions in the Defense Department, including Pentagon program manager, major command division chief, flying squadron commander, and director of NATO’s Joint Task Force Ops Center.
Following his military career, he joined The Boeing Company, where he led a regional C-17 Globemaster pilot, aircrew, and maintenance training center. He later served as a senior leader in Boeing’s learning and development division providing workforce development solutions for the company’s global Defense, Space & Security workforce.
He holds a doctorate in educational leadership from Delaware Valley University, along with masters' degrees in systems management from the University of Southern California, air mobility operations from the Air Force Institute of Technology, and strategic studies from Air War College. He completed his bachelor's degree at Penn State University. As an educator, he taught leadership courses at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
An award-winning author, he was recognized with the Orvil A. Anderson Leadership Research and Writing Award and the National Defense Transportation Journal’s Memorial Medal for Literary Merit. His military honors include the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, and Air Medal.