Joseph Mayeaux

Joseph Mayeaux is an operations manager in aerospace manufacturing and the author of Nobody Assigned You This: How to Lead When the Authority Isn't Yours. He spent twenty years in the United States Air Force in aircraft maintenance, the last five as a section chief, where he first encountered the pattern the book is built around: becoming the person people turn to for judgment and direction long before any title reflects it.

He holds an MBA from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business. He lives in the Seattle, Washington area, with his family