Professor Bennett is the founder and CEO of the Elite Leadership Academy. He is an internationally recognized leadership development innovator with work has recognized by several organizations, including Becker’s Hospital Review, which named him as one of the “Top African-American Leaders in Healthcare” for 2018, 2019 and 2020.
His leadership development approach has been taught to leaders from business, healthcare, law enforcement, retail, hospitality, entrepreneurs and nonprofit organizations. His leadership framework has been adopted for new military officer training.
Professor Bennett is also an engaging and witty speaker who challenges his audiences to think in different ways to reach better solutions. He brings his innovative approach to leadership development through engaging, entertaining and motivating presentations that are suitable to aspiring, new and experienced leaders from all industries. To have him speak at your next conference association meeting, company meeting, group meeting or company/group retreat, please check out his speaking information for links to his speaking portfolio, videos, testimonials and booking information.
He is the author of several leadership books and articles, including The Path to Elite Level Leadership: The 5-Step Program for Measurable Leadership Improvement and Prescribing Leadership in Healthcare: Curing the Challenges Facing Today’s Healthcare Leaders. Both books are based on Professor Bennett’s insights from years of leadership research, leadership course instruction, six sigma process improvement and his personal leadership journey. It presents a unique, proven and comprehensive approach to leadership development, creating a personalized, continuously-improving leadership game plan for people at any level of the organization to follow.
His thought leadership has also been published in several national and international journals, magazines and newsletters. He has also been interviewed for several articles and podcasts.
He has been an adjunct professor since 2008. He has developed and taught courses on data analytics, leadership and marketing at the graduate and undergraduate levels, both online and in the classroom. He has been a faculty member at:
- University of Maryland (2023 to Present)
- Northwestern University (2013 to Present)
- University of Chicago (2017 to 2018)
- Judson University (2009 to 2020)
- West Virginia University (2008 to 2016)
His university leadership courses were not only very highly rated by his students and usually rated higher than the other leadership classes taught at the school. In fact, several were typically rated higher than all other courses taught at the school during the same term.
Bryan earned his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, in management policy, management information systems, marketing and finance. He earned a BS from Butler University in accounting. He is a certified lean six sigma green belt and a trained project management professional.
