Hey everyone and welcome to our throwback episode. In our throwback episodes, we are reintroducing you to some of our most popular episodes.

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David, thanks for joining us today.

Kwame, it is an absolute pleasure, my friend.

Yeah, it's a pleasure to have you. I've been excited about this since we first spoke.

So let's jump into it. How about you tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do?

Cool. Well, my name is Dr. David Arrington. I have over 15 years of leadership development experience.

I have 20 plus years, actually, of leadership experience. I am the C.O. of Arrington coaching.

I am the author of Promotable. And most recently, I have created Leading Under Press pressure, which is an executive leadership development

community.

Fantastic.

I love it.

And so leading under pressure, David, why do you think it's important for us to understand

how to do that?

Well, 2020, I could just stop there,

right? You know, just 2020. But if you notice, the leadership landscape has changed fundamentally

and indefinitely. It's not going back to the way it was. And we have in this one year, these 12

months or so, leaders have been put through a lot of changes.

And what I've noticed working with leaders in a number of different industries is that they weren't ready, right?

The changes that happened, moving from in person to remote, handling remote teams, still being able to adapt on the fly as other leadership needs changed,

there was definitely a gap for a lot of leaders.

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