The Academy for Entrepreneurial Excellence Faculty Information 

Bernard B. Banks, Ph.D.

Dr. Bernard Banks has over twenty-five years of leadership and management experience in small, medium and large size organizations.  He is currently a Colonel in the U.S. Army and the Department Head (Chief Executive Officer) for West Point’s Department of Behavioral Sciences & Leadership.  Additionally, Dr. Banks is the Director of West Point’s Eisenhower Leader Development Program.  His teaching and research is focused on leadership development, and organizational change. He has led a 500-person multi-national aviation organization based in South Korea.

He has presented on the topic of leadership at notable institutions like the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, Yale University’s School of Management, and General Electric’s John F. Welch Leadership Center.  He has also presented on the topic of leadership at numerous companies around the globe including Procter & Gamble, IBM, Best Buy, Mercedes Benz, WellPoint and Pfizer.

Dr. Banks has a BS from West Point; an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management; an MPA from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government; a graduate of Harvard Business School’s General Management Program; and a Ph.D. in social-organizational psychology from Columbia University.