Gus Lee, bestselling author of Courage: The Backbone of Leadership and China Boy, is a nationally recognized leadership and character advancement expert who has worked in or consulted to fifty professions and industries. A former corporate chief operating officer, chief learning officer, government senior executive, West Point's first Chair of Character Development, US Senate ethics investigator, acting deputy attorney general, supervising deputy district attorney, university assistant dean, US Army officer and paratrooper, he trains and coaches through his company, Leaders of Character, LLC, and writes at guslee.net.