José Antonio Bowen has been leading innovation and change for over 40 years at Stanford, Georgetown, and the University of Southampton (UK), as a dean at Miami and SMU, and as president of a top ten
USN&WR most innovative college until 2019. He now runs Bowen Innovation Group L.L.C., and does innovation, leadership and inclusion consulting and training for Toyota, AT&T, Chevron, Pfizer, and other Fortune 500 companies.
Bowen holds four degrees from Stanford University (in Chemistry, Music, and Humanities) who honored him as a “Distinguished Alumni Scholar” in 2010. His research includes over 100 scholarly articles and books, including
Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology out of your College Classroom will Improve Student Learning (winner of the NessAward for Best Book on Higher Education in 2012) and the new
Teaching Change: How to Develop Independent Thinkers using Relationships, Resilience and Reflection (2021, Johns Hopkins UniversityPress).
Bowen has long been a pioneer in teaching and technology as profiled in
The New York Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, PBS News Hour, and
NPR, and was awarded the Ernest L. Boyer Award (for significant contributions to American higher education) in 2018. He has presented hundreds of keynotes and workshops in 46 states and 17 countries around the world. He also worked as a musician with Stan Getz, Bobby McFerrin, Liberace, and Jerry Garcia, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music. He is a Senior Fellow at the American Association of Colleges and Universities and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (FRSA) in England. For more, watch his
TED talks.
