Eagles Founder and Chairman John Wareham is chief of a leadership selection and development firm. He became an unpaid volunteer teacher to inmates at New York's Rikers Island in 1995, and has since taught the innovative programs he created--a blend of psychology, philosophy, critical thinking and debating--in New York's toughest prisons. A member of the writers organization PEN, John is author of several bestselling books on the psychological underpinnings of problematic behaviors, including, The President's Therapist, Chancey On Top, and How to Break Out of Prison. He edited and annotated the anthology of prison poetry, How to Survive a Bullet to the Heart. His anthology, Sonnets for Sinners, was nominated for Pulitzer prize. Most recently working with the Eagles team, he created the Podcast series, The Breakout Plan.

JOHN WAREHAM