A native Floridian, Lowell Teal was born into a citrus and cattle family. After graduation from the University of Florida, his executive career began with an international agricultural marketing organization representing citrus growers and other producers nationwide.

Fifteen years later he established a management, marketing and public relations consulting firm. Today the company is known as Austin Teal Corporation, a real estate sales organization, from which he is retired. He is the author of "A Happy Heart Is a Good Medicine" and "Company Stewardship." Both present a how-to-think educational process for the person within the workaday world who is balancing job demands with family responsibilities.

He is married, the father of two, and grandfather of two.