- The Backbone of Leadership (Business Non-Fiction) (2006)
- Chasing Hepburn (Non-Fiction) (2004)
- No Physical Evidence (2000)
- Tiger's Tail (1996)
- Honor and Duty (1994)
- China Boy (1991)
He is Chief Learning and Education Officer for Integware, a Colorado Fast 50 firm, and Chair of Character Development at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and provides OPDs to Army units. An operational ethicist, leadership consultant for corporations, government and non-profits, such as Lockheed Martin, the FBI and SEC and Whitworth University. He is a thought-leader for West Point, DDI, The Praevius Group and the Kansas City Regional Police Academy and Leadership Academy. He was a drill sergeant, paratrooper, corporate whistle blower, Senior Executive for the State Bar of California and a corporate VP, EVP and chief operating officer. He has appeared on
CBS This Morning and CNN and been interviewed by NPR's Terry Gross. He has received awards from the military, law enforcement, education, writing and business. He and Diane have two children, Eric and Jena. Jena Lee Nardella is the executive director of Water Mission and is married to James Nardella, executive director for the Lwala Community Alliance. Eric, an ADC, is a once-deployed Army CPT and is married to Army Nurse CPT Rebecca Lee. Their third "child," Danny Lee, for whom he and Diane were legal guardians, is an Army paratrooper stationed at Ft. Bragg who has returned from the humanitarian mission to Haiti and is currently deployed with a Marine force in Afghanistan.