Star Wars: Rebels’ Strategist in the Shadows
Star Wars: Rebels‘ blue-skinned Thrawn is a fictional echo of what America needs in these times: cultural intelligence, emotional control, and long-term thinking.
Brian Knowler
Brian Knowler is a leadership coach, police commander, author, and
professional speaker. He is the author of non-fiction books On the Other
Side of Broken (on trauma and PTSI) and Career Suicide is Overrated (on
trauma-informed leadership) as well as a fantasy novel called Oathtaker
Broken, the first of a trilogy. His latest, To Defeat an Enemy, You Must
Know Them, draws strategic and cultural lessons from Star Wars’ Grand
Admiral Thrawn and reimagines them for the real world. He previously wrote for Whatculture and the Huffington Post as a freelance contributor.