David is a business leader and mentor with Thales and served 30 years in the British Army, including four tours with Special Forces. He ended his military career at Sandhurst where he was responsible for redesigning leadership training based on his operational experience and was credited with the biggest change to the Sandhurst course since the Second World War. With knowledge gained from his MBA at Cranfield University, he created a modern learning culture at Sandhurst that prioritised the learners’ needs over those of the institution. He realised that the focus needed to shift to developing people who knew how to think, not what to think. He believes that a leader must be able to think, decide, act and inspire, whilst under pressure (and often when scared) in a complex, changing or dangerous environment. These conditions of course exist beyond the military. David is inspired by apprentices and graduates just starting out. He believes traditional ‘heroic’ leadership styles are outdated and that a new collaborative and enabling style is needed for the information age.

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