Following a diverse career as the Chief Financial Officer for a major automotive company, organizational consultant, and psychotherapist, Dudley received his PhD in Human and Organizational Systems in 2000. Since that time he has served as CEO of the Evergreen Institute for Complex Human Systems, a consulting firm and thinktank concerned with the application of complex adaptive systems theory to the development of all levels of human systems. He has written several articles on the subject, presented at major international conferences, taught classes and workshops, and consulted with numerous high tech businesses primarily in the Denver area.

As a cancer survivor, he has worked with the American Cancer Society and other survivor organizations to raise awareness about how the process of surviving cancer can lead to positive personal transformation. His chapter in Valerie Bentz and David Rehorick (Editors) new book on applied phenomenology (not yet published) outlines the cancer survivor's journey from trauma to transformation.

Dudley currently resides in South Carolina with his wife Christine, and is teaching classes at both the Furman University and UNC - Asheville Learning in Retirement programs. He has recently begun a major research effort to study how personality type affects the successful and unsuccessful aging strategies of people over 60. Most recently, he was awarded a fellowship with the Fielding Graduate University's Creative Longevity and Wisdom Initiative.