Dr. John P. Dentico is an internationally recognized leadership strategist and simulation designer who finds what is missing when the usual solutions stop working. For more than 30 years, organizations have called him when their best people kept leaving and nobody could explain why.

His work has taken him from the engine room of an aircraft carrier to the deck of a destroyer, and into engineering and scientific consulting, training, and advisory engagements with the FBI Academy, the Defense Intelligence Agency, IBM, the Brookings Institution, and Johns Hopkins University. Different organizations, different industries, same pattern underneath: the problem was structural, and the symptoms were all anyone was treating.

John is the creator of the LeadSimm Leadership Impact Simulation method, has published on simulation-based leadership development, and has facilitated more than 100 live simulations across more than 50 cities, putting participants inside real decisions rather than in front of slides.

His field report, Throttle Up from the Field, Volume 1: Canaries in the Coal Mine, draws on Gallup, DDI, Edelman, and 18 practitioner interviews to diagnose the three structural failures behind today's engagement and retention problems and to prescribe five interventions that address them. He is also the award-winning author of Throttle Up: How to Accelerate the Impact of 21st Century Leadership and host of the very popular Throttle Up Leadership Podcast, now past 180 episodes.

A retired U.S. Navy Reserve Commander and Vietnam veteran, John holds a Doctorate in Leadership Studies from the University of San Diego and is a certified AI Management Professional.