David is a dynamic speaker, facilitator, trainer, consultant, and author with 25+ years supporting organizations in leadership development, change management, and adult learning; improving performance and resilience thereby enabling enterprise and individual transformations. A pilot, flight instructor, Safety Officer, horse breeder/trainer, hiker, and builder of kayaks, a man who works and lives in a world of continual learning.
Resilience, the Upside of Down
Resilience, a key skill in today’s Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous (VUCA) world, is not innate, it is not ingrained; it is developed over a lifetime. Using a seven-resilience-muscles model we explore some of the latest research and uncover surprising facts about resilience. We look at how our wonderful complex brain works and see how all of this prevented my day from spiralling out of control.