Dan Bowling is a Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke Law School where he teaches labor and employment law. He is the author of Living in Interesting Times, an examination of the future of labor organizing in the United States. He also designed and teaches a course on lawyers and personal well-being, which has been featured in several national publications, and leads seminar courses exploring the connection between well-being and legal professionalism. In addition to his work at Duke, Dan is a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, where he assists Dr. Martin Seligman in teaching graduate level courses on positive psychology, positive humanities, and character strengths and virtues.

Outside of the academic world, Dan is chief executive officer of Positive Workplace Solutions, LLC, which specializes in designing human performance programs and strategies for senior executives, and a practicing labor and employment lawyer. He also is an executive coach to lawyers at some of the largest corporations and firms in the U.S. Until 2006, he was senior vice president of Human Resources for Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc, a Fortune 125 company. In that capacity, he had responsibility for all human resources matters for the company's 80,000 employees in North America and Western Europe, including 35,000 working over 200 labor contracts. In addition to his human resources responsibilities, Dan was a member of the corporation's governing executive committee. During his twenty year career in the Coca-Cola system, Dan served in many roles, including running one of the largest business units in the company, and serving as general manager of the Florida Coca-Cola bottling company. He joined CCE in 1986 as Chief Labor Counsel. Prior to joining CCE, Dan was a partner with Smith, Currie and Hancock in Atlanta, Ga. He specialized in Title VII litigation and management labor law.

Dan is active on several other nonprofit boards, is a frequent speaker at seminars and meetings, and has published numerous works in business and professional publications. His current areas of academic research and writing include the application of positive psychology in the practice of law, and the role of well-being in legal ethics and professionalism.

Dan graduated cum laude with honors in English from Millsaps College in 1977. He received his JD from Duke University School of Law in 1980, and a master’s degree in positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009.