Steve Leonard

Steve Leonard is an award-winning faculty member at the University of Kansas School of Business, where he serves as the Assistant Area Director for Management and Entrepreneurship and is a Professor of the Practice. A former senior military strategist, he is a career writer and speaker with a passion for developing and mentoring the next generation of thought leaders. Published extensively, he pens a weekly editorial column, Point of Departure, where his writing focuses on issues of foreign policy, national security, strategy and planning, leadership and leader development. He is a member of the editorial review boards of Military Strategy Magazine and the Arthur D. Simons Center’s Interagency Journal; the co-founder of the national security blog, Divergent Options; an emeritus senior fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point; and a co-founder and emeritus board member of the Military Writers Guild. He is the author, co-author, or editor of several books, including Professionals Talk Logistics (Howgate, 2025), Power Up (Casemate, 2023), To Boldly Go (Casemate, 2021), Why We Write (Middle West Press, 2019), Winning Westeros (Potomac Books, 2019), and Strategy Strikes Back (Potomac Books, 2018).