Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal

Before we go rushing back to work, let’s look at what we’re rushing back for. Rather than bouncing back, we get to enhance our resilience to bounce forward. While we don’t get to choose our experiences, we can choose the meaning we make of our circumstances as well as how we respond, rather than simply react. As we advance in this new world of work, in the midst of uncertainty, coupled with ambiguity, we get to embrace the paradox of possibility and progress, alongside the inevitable growing pains we feel as individuals, teams, and organizations.

In order to continue to develop resilience, we get to focus on cultivating courage, curiosity, and creativity as the antidote to the immense challenge, change, and complexity that exists today. Many people are asking, “Why?” “Why is this happening?” That is the wrong question. A more beautiful question is to ask, “How?” “How do we teach ourselves and others that chaos and challenge are not the enemy, but rather, the opportunity to improve our human condition and foster accelerated development and growth?”

In exploring the “How’s” of this time, now more than ever, we get to:

• Reinvent how we serve our customers, clients, and communities;
• Rethink how we work effectively and efficiently;
• Reimagine our roles as leaders; and
• Enhance our resilience

As the #1 International Expert on Resilience, Dr. Taryn Marie provides practical, actionable, and hope-infused research-based solutions for individuals, teams, and organizations through her characteristic inspiration, story-telling, and empirical work, drawing on her unique background heading global leadership development for Fortune 50 organizations.

Key Takeaways Include:

• How we find hope and allow our circumstances to transform us for the better
• How to address experiences associated with burnout, exhaustion, and overwhelm
• How we effectively navigate our circumstances to respond, not simply react
• Best practices for individuals, teams, and organizations to implement strategies to enhance productivity, motivation, and mental health
• How to harness the neurological aspects of our brain to bounce forward, not back
• A guide to leverage this time period to launch more effective personal and professional behaviors, skills, and tools to be equipped for the defining moments of today, and tomorrow

The recent constellation of feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and navigating high levels of stress and uncertainty has left so many feeling more than burned out. The volume of challenge, change, and complexity has left so many people feeling charred and frayed at the seams. Fortunately, to beat back burnout and find more balance, there is hope. As the #1 International Expert on Resilience, Dr. Taryn Marie provides practical, actionable, and research-based solutions for individuals, teams, and organizations to find greater balance, peace, and well-being enhance and resilience through her characteristic inspiration, story-telling, and empirical work, drawing on her unique background heading global leadership development for Fortune 50 organizations.

Many of the strategies and skills we’ve used to create balance and maintain mental health from the past are no longer accessible in our hybrid and virtual environments. In our new world of work, what got us here is no-longer relevant for the present, let alone for the future. This keynote provides a new roadmap for how to navigate balance for today and beyond.

Key Takeaways Include:

• The surprising truth about what is really driving burnout
• How to cultivate and protect our psychological fitness
• The myths and truths about burnout, exhaustion, and overwhelm
• Why self-care was never a stand-alone solution to burnout
• Best practices for individuals, teams, and organizations to implement strategies to enhance productivity, motivation, and mental health
• How to effectively segment and integrate our personal and professional lives
• A roadmap for the future complete with a best-in-class guide for techniques to prioritize, draw boundaries, and build resilience

What are the attributes that determine whether a leader, team, or organization will flourish or fold? After conducting over a decade of research to understand how people harness resilience in leadership and life, resilience is emerging as the key differentiator that sustains people in moments of difficulty, ambiguity, and adversity. Put simply, our ability to be resilient is the active ingredient that determines whether we flourish or fold. At a time when business is facing challenge, change, and complexity, enhancing resilience has never been more important. World renowned resilience expert and former head of executive development at Nike, Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal, shares with audiences The Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People; the five behaviors we can all access to increase our resilience. Resilience is fundamentally at the core of what it means to be human and to be a leader and has been the element of leadership development that has been both overlooked and largely misunderstood. Dr. Taryn Marie inspires and engages audiences with a practical, tangible, and relevant approaches to enhancing resilience.

How do we foster cultures that support innovation and creativity? While organizations have sought to understand the secret sauce that allows their people to effectively address challenge and pursue innovation, they have often overlooked a key ingredient that fosters innovation: resilience. It’s no longer IQ or EQ that will set you, your people, or your organization apart. It’s AQ – the adversity quotient, your ability to, through resilience, build the muscle necessary to face fear and failure and be truly innovative. Dr. Taryn Marie shared the foundational elements of resilience that accelerate innovation: The Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People along with tackling The Myths of Resilience that often derail innovation and creativity, in order to channel greater resilience in service of developing more innovative practices, people, teams, and organizations.

Now that millions of women have left the workforce since the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, many organizations, let alone the U.S., may be facing a she-cession, economic circumstances in which job loss and departure from the workforce disproportionately impact women, as the confluence of roles women navigate, motherhood, career woman, and caregiving, collide, leading to overwhelm, anxiety, and the feeling of constantly never being enough. So often, we approach self-care from a place of activity instead of a place of worthiness. We all know where the Epson Salts and the bathtub is and where our workout videos are stashed. It’s not about knowing that self-care is good for us, it’s about doing and feeling worthy enough to put our self-care ahead of others’ needs. This keynote presentation can also be conducted as an intimate workshop, inviting women (and men) to engage in valuing themselves, and engaging in The Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People to create greater sustainability as people and professionals.