Jeffrey J. Matthews

Jeff Matthews is an award-winning professor of leadership and history at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. He is also a management consultant and a founding partner of the Camouflaj game studio in Bellevue, Washington. Jeff has twice earned Puget Sound’s Thomas A. Davis Teaching Award, and in 2009 was presented the President’s Teaching Excellence Award. Jeff has published four books: Blacksheep Leadership (2012), Alanson B. Houghton: Ambassador of the New Era (2003) and The Art of Command: Military Leadership from George Washington to Colin Powell (2008, 2017), which was translated into Chinese for officer training in the Taiwanese Defense Department and required reading at the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; and Colin Powell: Imperfect Patriot (2019). His newest book is Generals and Admirals, Criminals and Crooks: Dishonorable Leadership in the American Military (Notre Dame Press, 2023) https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-j-matthews-279a446/