Dr. Preston Rich is a proud Christian, father, veteran, speaker,educator, entrepreneur and author in Frisco, TX. He served over 10years in the United States Air Force which included two tours in support of Operation Desert Storm. He was a 2013 and 2015 Presidential Management Fellow (PMF) finalist.

His diverse background has provided him with over 30 years of leadership experience in five separate industries. When he left the military, he worked as a manager at Sprint, Lucent, Nokia, and PepsiCo. His corporate experience enables him to bring a unique experiential perspective to his classroom.

Dr. Rich teaches business or cybersecurity courses as an adjunct professor at DeVry, Grand Canyon, Parker, Purdue Global Universities. His engaging, Socratic style has earned him the distinction as a “professor of choice” among the business student population on all campuses where he has taught. In 2018, he developed the “Rich Thinking Series” designed to teach people how to use critical thinking to take control of their lives and has developed a conceptual model for cyberleadership.

As the first scholar in the world to develop an instrument that quantitatively measured the relationship between ethical leader behavior and organizational performance, Dr. Rich is dedicated to positively impacting people by teaching them how to become transformational in all aspects of their personal and professional lives. He holds a BBA in Management, an MBA in Strategic Leadership, an MS in Information Assurance and Cybersecurity, a Ph.D. with Distinction in Organization and Management, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

During his downtime, Dr. Rich resides in Frisco, Texas with his son and is a member of the Friendship Baptist Church of The Colony. He volunteers to advocate for veterans as a life member and officer of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and a life member of the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) and Air Force Association.