What does a tobacco farmer who signed a revolutionary oath in 1775 have in common with a startup founder navigating a market disruption in 2025? More than you’d think.

In From Bunker Hill to the Boardroom: Battle-Tested Leadership for Today’s Executives Andy Moye argues that from Colonial times to today, the fundamental challenges of leadership have not changed — connecting people to meaning, adapting to rapidly shifting conditions, and building organizations resilient enough to function when key leaders fall.

Moye’s family history of military service spans nearly 250 years — from George Moye II’s signature on the Pitt County Association at the dawn of the American Revolution, through a Confederate regiment’s survival at Vicksburg, a father’s quiet leadership during the chaos of the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, and finally, the author’s own harrowing decision over Baghdad in 2003.  From that battlefield experience, he has extracted timeless leadership principles for the modern executive.

The book is organized around three pillars that have defined the Moye family’s service across every era: Purpose, Adaptive Intelligence, and Empowered Teams. Moye argues that the fundamental challenges of leadership have not changed — connecting people to meaning, adapting to rapidly shifting conditions, and building organizations resilient enough to function when key leaders fall.

Drawing on deep genealogical research, personal combat experience, and hard-earned lessons from a career in healthcare AI, Moye bridges the Revolutionary War and the boardroom with clarity and credibility. His central story — a near-mutiny aboard a P-3C Orion as he wrestled a skeptical crew into a Baghdad search-and-rescue mission — anchors the book’s message: that leadership is ultimately about how you respond when everything is uncertain and people are losing faith.

With a foreword by General Stanley McChrystal, From Bunker Hill to the Boardroom is essential reading for executives, military veterans, healthcare leaders, and anyone who leads in high-stakes, ambiguous environments.