Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal is the Chief Resilience Officer and founder of the Resilience Leadership Institute. With over two decades of experience, she excels in working with leaders and executives, women in business, and entrepreneurs who are facing challenges and aren’t sure how to identify or solve their most important problems. Her innovative framework, The Five Practices of Highly Resilient People, provides a resilience roadmap with tools and strategies that help people effectively address their challenges. Her work has been featured on platforms such as Forbes, NBC, Fox, and Bloomberg Business, garnering endorsements from thought leaders such as Arianna Huffington, Daniel Pink, Kathy Ireland, and Marshall Goldsmith. Her client roster includes top-tier companies and universities such as Amazon, Nike, Discover Financial, NYU, and Pfizer. Her book, The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People, is a #1 Wall Street Journal best-seller.
Dr. Taryn Marie is on a mission to positively impact the lives of one billion people in 2023 by making resilience practical and accessible.
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 top 5% acclaimed podcast 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 and board member to amplify resilience, engagement, and talent strategy. Her two sons, Samson and Sawyer are always teaching her about resilience!