John Bowling, PhD

Executive Director, Organizational Leadership and Strategy

Dr. John Bowling is an accomplished business leader, consultant, psychologist, educator, and coach. He is passionate about helping individuals, teams, and organizations optimize performance through a process of creating clarity around focus, strategy, structure, and desired outcomes, and then enhancing awareness of self and others in interactions. This blend of structural and process work helps remove barriers to performance while reinforcing development of new strategic and interpersonal skills. John's approach includes a strong focus on emotional skills and competencies which enhance decision-making and contribute to accurate evaluation of truthfulness and credibility.

Prior to relocating to Oregon with his family in 2008, John worked in the Senior Healthcare Industry with over 14 years of key leadership and management experience. John led start up business development and general management of Silverado At Home following several years as Chief Learning Officer for Silverado Senior Living. As a CLO, John functioned much as an internal consultant, building high potential leadership development programs, creating leadership team structures and coaching individual leaders to achieve positive results in business and in life. Before joining Silverado, Dr. Bowling was a principal partner and clinical director of Advanced Behavioral Care. He is a published author and frequent presenter and has served as adjunct faculty at Texas A&M University, the University of Maine, University of Utah, Westminster College and currently at Southern Oregon University.

John has served on multiple Boards in the areas of healthcare, aging, and technology. He is an active member of Rotary International and serves on the National Ski Patrol. He and his family live in Jacksonville, Oregon.