ABOUT J R CHILDRESS

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​J. R. Childress is the author of several historical and eco-thriller novels. He is a retired international business executive and in the early 1970s studied marine ecology as a graduate student at Harvard University and the University of Hawaii, where he had the good fortune of learning with Professor E. O. Wilson at Harvard and Dr. Ernest Reese in Hawaii. In 1968 he spent a year at the American Uni­versity of Beirut in Lebanon where he learned to Scuba dive, travelled extensively in the Middle East, and became fascinated with history and different cultures.

 

In 1975, with a Ph.D. in marine ecology on the horizon, life took a big left turn, and he entered the world of management consulting. In 1978 he co-founded what became an international leadership and management consultancy with offices in Los Angeles, New York and London. He served as President and CEO for 23 years until the firm was sold and he retired. One of his early consulting assignments was to help build a safety culture after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident.

 

In 2001 he moved his family to a 13th Century chateau in the south of France where he wrote novels and enjoyed helping raise his young daughter, who is now a professional classical music and opera conductor in the US and Europe. After several years in France the family moved back to London where he spends his time as a senior advisor to global leadership teams, writes  business books on leadership and corporate culture, and continues to write historical and eco-thriller novels.

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