Geoff Sutton served in the US Army as both a commissioned and non-commissioned officer, including combat in Iraq. In addition to his military service, he has been a consulting engineer, an engineer for federal and local government agencies, a construction manager for general contractors, a manual laborer, a scuba instructor, and a night shift copy droid at Kinkos. He completed his doctoral research in 2020, focusing on leadership in dangerous circumstances. You can find his dissertation here: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/dmgt/3/. These days he makes his home in the Devon countryside.