Kris Kindoll of DMI: “How To Survive And Thrive During A Time Of Crisis; 5 Lessons I Learned From My Military Experience”

Chris Quiocho
Authority Magazine
Published in
8 min readMay 26, 2020

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“I think what is just as important a leader is to have a trusted team in place that you can rely on and bounce ideas off of when setbacks happen.” — Kris Kindoll

In this interview series, we are exploring the subject of dealing with crisis and how to adapt and overcome. The context of this series is the physical and financial fallout that resulted from the COVID 19 pandemic. Crisis management is one characteristic that many successful leaders share in common, and in many cases it is the most important trait necessary to survive and thrive in today’s complex market.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Kris Kindoll.

Kris Kindoll is DMI’s Managing Director of Defense and National Security. He served in both the U.S. Army and the Virginia National Guard.

Thank you so much for doing this with us! Before we dig in, our readers would love to get to know you a bit. Can you tell us a bit about your childhood “backstory”?

My name is Kris Kindoll. I’m the Managing Director of Defense and National Security at DMI, a global digital transformation…

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Chris Quiocho
Authority Magazine

Combat Veteran and Pilot by trade. Chris is a 4x Entrepreneur, host of the Jet Set Podcast, and Founder of offland.com