Dave King on growing up, giving back, and leading through the Columbia Space Shuttle Tragedy
Dave King is the President of Dynetics, a large aerospace and engineering company, a father to three children, and a close friend of mine. In this interview, Dave shares with us his experiences growing up in South Carolina, and how the lessons he learned as a child influenced the the values he holds closest as an adult, and he is transparent and vulnerable about his personal experiences with adopting his two daughters and parenting a son with special needs. As the former director of NASA’s Marshal Space Flight Center, Dave led the recovery efforts after the Columbia Space Shuttle tragedy, and during this interview he shares with us how he owned their mistakes by admitting that “we missed it”, and how that leadership helped the organization to heal.
Introduction to Crossing The Line
Leadership has become a buzzword. In this podcast, Larry Little skips the over-used cliches and industry jargon about leadership and digs deep into the moments when real people have been faced with hard decisions about what kind of leader they want to be. Leadership doesn’t happen in the vacuum of an office or boardroom, but in the moments when we strive and fail and try again to show up for our team, our friends, our families, and ourselves. This series will feature personal interviews with leaders from all walks of life, and give you insight into how they showed up in the moments that made them who they are today- the moments when they chose to cross the line.