Tom Kolditz

Kolditz is a retired Brigadier General with the US Army. Tom led the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at West Point for 12 years. In that role, he was responsible for West Point’s teaching, research, and outreach activities in Management, Leader Development Science, Psychology, and Sociology. A highly experienced global leader, General Kolditz has more than 35 years in leadership roles on four continents. He was a leadership and human resources policy analyst in the Pentagon, the founding director of the West Point Leadership Center and was Commander, 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment and a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). He is also the founding Director of the Ann and John Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University and formerly taught at Harvard University.