Cohesion. But weve always had people who have understood how to overcome those differences. And so to kind of reflect on this question about what does enable us to overcome the distinctions in any kind of free society, we are delighted today to be joined by oscar munoz. He was appointed in 2015. He is a true american success story. And well talk about that a little bit. Growing up with eight siblings in california. First member of his family to go to college. Hes had a number of rather remarkable leadership roles, worked at at t, cocacola, pepsico prior to joining united, president of the cxx corporation which moves a lot of heavy stuff around the country. But the focus of this discussion will be oscars focus on people. As i prepared for this discussion, the consistency with which the descriptions of your leadership have been kind of just anchored in both your employees and your passengers as really kind of shone through. And i think, you know, im particularly interested in a field tha
Mr. Munoz was a guest at the Bipartisan Policy Center where he talked about his leadership style and how united views his global role. He also talks about the heart attack he suffered shortly after starting with united. This is just under one hour. Welcome, everyone to what i was just informed the 1th installment of our series on leadership. Some of you have been with us before and as youve seen from some of these sessions the meaning of leadership, but the sense that theres not enough of it is something thats wildly shared here in washington. And the ambition for this series is to call on leaders from national and local politics and business leaders, folks from the education and arts, advocates to try to understand what are the circumstances and characteristics that enable some people to overcome real differences. Its not that the history of this country was made of plastic cohesion. But weve always had people who have understood how to overcome those differences. And so to kind of re