S5. Ep. 4: Dr Rodney King

Drawing on his life’s experience growing up in government housing, his decades of training martial arts, and his academic background — he codified his experiences into what is today known as the Crazy Monkey Defense System. Rodney earned his Doctorate from the University of Leicester’s School of Business. His thesis and research focused on the embodied aspect of Mindful-Leadership. Key to his research was studying the efficacy of mindfulness first taught through an experiential, action oriented approach, and its subsequent application to leadership performance. In addition, he earned his Master of Arts degree in Leading Innovation and Change from York St John Universities School of Business. His undergraduate work was in psychology. In the past two decades Rodney has worked closely with army special forces teams – helping them develop inner-fitness capabilities and defensive tactics skills for life and death encounters. He has instructed law enforcement officers both in the United States, Canada, Australia and Germany on how to protect themselves when all else fails. He regularly teaches cabin crew how to deal with unruly passengers 30 000 feet in the air. On top of that, he continues to teach seminars around the world on the two modern martial arts lifestyle brands he created (now taught in 15-countries around the world). And if this wasn’t enough, he is often asked to guest lecture or be a keynote speaker on topics ranging from embodied-leadership, mindfulness-in-action, to entrepreneurial success. LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/managing-violence-podcast/id1441934641?mt=2&uo=4 LISTEN ON GOOGLE PODCASTS: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy83Y2NlMDAwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz WATCH ON YOUTUBE: Thanks for listening. Make sure to subscribe and leave us a review so you never miss future content. Want to check out the bonus content for this episode and others? www.patreon.com/managingviolence Check out our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvJgyuUe-wxu-ii88QEc2Zg Follow Joe on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/managingviolence Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeSaundersAU LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joesaundersau/ TikTok: @managingviolence Instagram: @managingviolence