Peter A. DeLisle PhD

Peter A. DeLisle is an educator and a businessman. His background in education includes award-winning teaching in engineering, architecture, commerce and education.

 

DeLisle’s industry experience includes executive leadership as chief human resources officer for Convex Computer of Richardson, Texas and as a division executive for Hewlett-Packard Company. He has helped found three successful companies and acted as an adviser, and teacher of leaders in more than two hundred companies and communities over the last 30 years.
 

He held the William H. Severns Chair in Human Behavior in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana and was Professor and Leslie B. Crane Chair of Leadership Studies and Director of The Posey Leadership Institute at Austin College. He was a Program Manager for the Center for Creative Leadership.
 

He has served as resource and adviser to the American Institute of Architects, the US Army Cyber Command, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, E.M. Kauffman Foundation for Entrepreneurial Leadership; and the LBJ School of Public Service. DeLisle has been a member of executive education faculties for 25 years, at the Universities of Notre Dame, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Purdue, SMU, Colorado and Cincinnati. He has conducted international programs for groups in Portugal, Serbia, Dubai, Colombia and China.
 

He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in human resource development leadership and Phi Kappa Phi from the College of Education at the University of Texas in Austin, He was named National Honorary Member of the American Institute of Architects in 2022.
 

DeLisle served in the United States Army as a captain of field artillery as a howitzer battery commander, and a legislative and foreign liaison officer. He was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal. He was the distinguished military graduate of the University of Connecticut in 1971.
 

He is married to Janice Braem DeLisle for 50+ years, a retired educator of students and a Director of the Texas Association for Gifted and Talented His daughters: Amy, is a veterinarian and professor at Texas A&M-Commerce, and Meg, a marine biologist and environmental scientist. They reside in Torrington, Connecticut and Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts.