Taryn Marie Stejskal Ph.D. | Former Head, Nike's Global Executive Leadership Development

Taryn Marie Stejskal Ph.D.

Former Head, Nike's Global Executive Leadership Development

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Taryn Marie Stejskal Ph.D.
Biography

Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal (pronounced Stay-skull) is recognized by USA Today as the #1 international expert on resilience, mental health, and wellbeing, and she is the Founder of the Resilience Leadership Institute (RLI). Her mission is to positively impact the lives of 1 billion people, by enhancing hope, along with overall health and wellness through the practices of resilience.

Her book entitled The Five Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why some flourish when others fold is a #1 Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Bestseller and was endorsed by Arianna Huffington, Daniel Pink, and Kathy Ireland. Global Gurus has recognized Dr. Taryn Marie as a Top 30 Thinker in Leadership, she is a Marshall Goldsmith Top 100 Global Executive Coach, and a finalist for the Tony Hsieh (pronounced Shay) Award, the founder of Zappos, focused on people who are leading progressive and innovative change in human capital. Her work has been featured by Fox, NBC News, The Tamron Hall Show, Bloomberg Business, Ny Weekly Magazine, Thrive Global, and Forbes. Her TEDx talk entitled “How Resilience Breaks Us Out of Our Vulnerability Cage” has been viewed over 1.3 million times! LA Progressive magazine calls her “the go-to person” and “a secret weapon” for CEOs and leadership teams who want to find their edge as well as rise above the competition. 

USA Today named Dr. Taryn Marie as one of the Ten Top Entrepreneurs to watch in 2023, and she believes that The Five Practices of Highly Resilient People is the key to personal leadership, thriving through change, along with organizational growth and acceleration. Prior to founding RLI, she served as the Head of Executive Leadership Development & Talent Strategy at Nike, as well as Head of Global Leadership Development at Cigna. 

Dr. Taryn Marie earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, along with master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park, and completed pre- and postdoctoral fellowships in neuropsychology at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. She is the host of the chart-topping, top 1% acclaimed podcast entitled “Flourish or Fold: Stories of Resilience”, where well-known people tell their lesser  well-known story of facing challenge to remind us that adversity is a necessary ingredient in life.

She is honored to serve as a sought-after trusted advisor, executive coach, and board member to amplify resilience, engagement, and talent strategy. Her two sons, Samson and Sawyer, are always teaching her about resilience!

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Featured Keynote Programs

Women, Wellness, and Worthiness
How to Achieve the Seemingly Impossible

As a former executive at Cigna and Nike, Dr. Taryn Marie has a unique ability to support women with their ambition and desire to accomplish big goals without sacrificing personal life, well-being, or sanity. Her message of radical possibility, combined with The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People, leaves audiences inspired and equipped with practical tools.

Dr. Taryn Marie gives audiences a candid look at ways wellmeaning women sacrifice wellness, sabotage themselves and others, and feel unworthy. She provides insight to uplift not only themselves, but those around them, with the ability to find a flow in both work and family life, while believing more deeply in their inherent enough-ness! 

Attendees will:
▹ LEARN HOW THE 5 PRACTICES FRAMEWORK ALLOWS THEM TO ACCOMPLISH BIG GOALS
▹ IDENTIFY THE #1 THING THAT HOLDS THEM BACK FROM ACCOMPLISHING THEIR GOALS
▹ UNCOVER HOW TO LIVE A LIFE WITH LESS STRESS AND MORE MEANING
▹ APPRECIATE PROVEN METHODS TO AMPLIFY CONFIDENCE AND BANISH FEELINGS OF UNWORTHINESS FOR GOOD 

The Not-so-Surprising Link Between Resilience, Innovation, & Creativity
Make the Impossible, Possible

How can organizations & leaders foster cultures that leverage innovation and creativity as fuel? While organizations have sought to understand the secret sauce that allows their people to effectively address challenge and pursue innovation, they often overlook a key ingredient that fosters innovation: resilience.

In this talk, Dr. Taryn Marie reveals how individuals, teams, and organization can harness and enhance resilience, through her proven framework, The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People, that help eliminate fear of failure and take action toward amplifying innovation to make the seemingly impossible, becomes possible.

Attendees will:
▹ UNDERSTAND HOW PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY IS A KEY FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION & CREATIVITY
▹ LEARN HOW THE 5 PRACTICES FRAMEWORK MAKES THE SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE, POSSIBLE
▹ APPRECIATE THE MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN RESILIENCE, CREATIVITY, & INNOVATION

From Burnout to Balance
Practices to Restore & Optimize Engagement

The sheer volume of challenge and rate of change has left people feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. In this signature talk, Dr. Taryn Marie provides practical, actionable, and research-based solutions for individuals, teams, and organizations to find greater balance, peace, and well-being.

Drawing on her unique background heading global leadership development for organizations across the globe, and her empirical framework, The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People, this keynote provides a roadmap for how we can we flourish in our places of work.

Attendees will:
▹ RECEIVE PRACTICAL, TIME-TESTED STRATEGIES TO INCREASE RESILIENCE, REDUCE STRESS, & ENHANCE ENGAGEMENT
▹ FEEL EQUIPPED TO MANAGE THE UPS AND DOWNS OF LIFE 
▹ UNDERSTAND HOW TO BUILD TEAM & ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICES THAT ENHANCE WELL-BEING
▹ RECOGNIZE AND COMBAT BURNOUT, EXHAUSTION, AND STRESS

The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People
Why Some Flourish When Others Fold

What are the attributes that determine whether your leaders, teams, and organization will flourish or fold in times of change and transition? After conducting twenty years of research to understand how people effectively face challenge, resilience has emerged as the key differentiator that sustains people in moments of difficulty, ambiguity, and adversity.

In this signature keynote, Dr. Taryn Marie shares the myths that have clouded our understanding of resilience and invites audiences to look within themselves, rather than outside of themselves for resilience. She inspires audiences with the practical, tangible, and evidence-based framework, The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People, based on her #1 WSJ Bestselling book, where attendees will identify and adopt practices that will enhance their wellbeing and sustain their resilience.

Attendees will:
▹ LEARN THE 5 PRACTICES OF HIGHLY RESILIENT PEOPLE
▹ APPRECIATE THE IMPORTANCE OF EMPATHY & AUTHENTICITY IN LEADERSHIP
▹ UNDERSTAND THE PERVASIVE MYTHS THAT OFTEN BLOCK THEIR ABILITY TO ACCESS RESILIENCE
▹ INCREASE RESILIENCE AND REDUCE STRESS, EXHAUSTION, AND BURNOUT 

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Featured Book

The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why Some Flourish When Others Foldby Taryn Marie Stejskal Ph.D.

The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why Some Flourish When Others Fold

by Taryn Marie Stejskal Ph.D.

#1 international resilience expert Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal provides practical tools to effectively address challenges, complexity, and change.

Resilience is categorically misunderstood. It’s not merely about bouncing back, and it’s so much more than returning to where you began. True resilient “doing” allows us to capitalize on the inescapable challenges of life and become better than we were before.

Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal began working with brain injury patients and found that most popular beliefs about human resilience are incorrect. Since then, for the last 20 years, she has conducted qualitative research on the power of resilience, studying the science behind why some people succeed while others fail. Here, Dr. Taryn Marie outlines the five critical behaviors that define successful resilience: Vulnerability, Productive Perseverance, Connection, Gratiosity (Gratitude and Generosity), and Possibility. Resilient People bounce forward, take an active approach to facing challenges, and most importantly, they are made, not born.

Dr. Taryn Marie’s empirically proven framework shows us how to develop resilience practices in our own lives—as adults, as parents, and across organizations—in a manner that allows us to be enhanced by our experiences, not diminished. 

Taryn Marie Stejskal Ph.D.
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