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David Knapp

David Knapp

President of Marathon Leadership LLC, author of Marathon Leadership: 26.2 Essential Lessons for Modern Leaders, and Ph.D. in Human Communication Studies.

Aug 3, 2026

7:31
How have you seen this play out with your clients? Like, have you seen them see increased engagement and see an ROI?
7:37
Oh, yeah.
7:38
I really do.
7:39
I mean, two, two things really stand out for me.
7:42
One was with a, a transportation district that I was working with, and I was doing an executive offsite, and, and I was working with the CEO, and I said, "Hey, I really think your folks would like this, and more importantly, I think you will appreciate it." He was brand-new CEO, had been promoted from the COO level.
8:00
And we did the training, and everybody took the assessment, and afterwards, he came up to me and he said, "Man, this is gold." He said, "You know, I have all of my direct reports in here, and I now know how to show them appreciation because I have a great team.
8:14
But coming into this, I would've probably just shown appreciation the, the same way." So that always stands out.
12:44
You know, as you've worked with organizations and agencies and all manner of, of, of groups with this framework, what challenges have you seen when they try to implement this?

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