José Antonio Bowen

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 Goucher College (voted a Top 10 Most Innovative College under his leadership). 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 Ness Award for Best Book on Higher Education in 2012) and Teaching Change: How to Develop Independent Thinkers using Relationships, Resilience and Reflection (2021) and Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning (2024).

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 20 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 SxSW or TED talks.