Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal

The Five Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why some Flourish when others Fold

What are the attributes that determine whether a leader, team, or organization will flourish or fold? After conducting two decades of research to understand how people effectively face challenge, in leadership and life, resilience is the key differentiator that sustains people in moments of difficulty, ambiguity, and adversity.

At a time when we’re all facing extensive challenge, change, and complexity, harnessing let alone, enhancing resilience has never been more important. World renowned resilience expert and Nike’s former head of executive development and talent strategy, Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal shares with audiences the five practices of highly resilient people — behaviours and practices, available to all of us, that have been shown to dramatically increase our resilience.

Resilience is the essence of being human, a skillset we all possess. Yet what it means to be truly resilient has been largely misunderstood. Dr. Taryn Marie inspires and engages audiences with a practical, tangible, and relevant approach to enhancing resilience the difference between flourishing and folding.

As a result of this program, attendees will:

• Learn The Five Practices of Highly Resilient People, the habits empirically shown to determine why some flourish after facing challenge and others fold.
• Understand The Three Myths that block out ability to access our resilience.
• Increase resilience and reduce stress, exhaustion, and burnout.
• Build their own Resilience Toolkit focused on a series of practical skills and habits that that increase wellbeing during times of anxiety and burnout.
• Recognize the power of vulnerability in cultivating resilience as well as authentic and empathetic leadership.

Resilience is a Team Sport: Resilience is the new model for Team Engagement and Retention

Resilience is not an individual pursuit, but instead a team sport as today’s workplace requires new strategies for connecting and getting results. While engagement and retention are top of mind for many organizations, previous leadership models are outdated and offer little value. The commonality amongst the most effective leaders and teams is a commitment to resilience, along with empathy and vulnerability if they are to reach their true potential. By fostering resilience and developing the whole person, teams members move from trying to cross the finish line first to focusing on how the team can cross the finish line together.

One of the best ways to help your team enhance resilience while boosting productivity, engagement, and retention is through The Five Practices of Highly Resilient People. To learn more, read Resilience is a Team Sport, published in Forbes, featuring Dr. Taryn Marie on resilience and team leadership.

As a result of this program, attendees will:

• Learn The Five Practices of Highly Resilient People for enhancing team connection, cohesion, and communication framework.
• Build a culture of team resilience where team members have a renewed sense of trust, purpose, and their potential.
• Create enhanced engagement and productivity, leading to greater retention by focusing first on amplifying positive team dynamics.
• Experience a reignited passion for their team’s focus and goals.
• Foster greater commitment to the team and organization as people feel their development is a priority.

From Burnout to Balance: Practices to Optimize Work and Life

The volume of challenge, change, and complexity has left so many people feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and navigating high levels of stress and uncertainty. 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 organizations across the globe. This keynote provides a roadmap for how we can we flourish in our places of workplace, along with promoting greater wellbeing for all people.

As a result of this program, attendees will:

• Increase resilience, lower stress, and feel equipped to manage the ups and downs of life.
• Build their own ‘Resilience Toolkit’ of easy to implement practices that increase wellbeing, mental health, and resilience during times of anxiety and burnout.
• Recognize that it’s okay to not be okay.
• Understand how to enhance their own wellness and how to build up their team’s and organization’s practices that foster and enhance greater wellbeing.

How We Harness Resilience to Advance the Future of Work: How to Navigate Uncertainty and Ambiguity

The world is changing faster than we ever imagined, leaders and teams get to dig deep within themselves to break through and find opportunity in uncertain times. Instead of bouncing back, we’re bouncing forward, drawing on the wisdom and growth of our recent experiences to go forward in our careers, lives, and pursuit of dreams and goals. 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 reacting. 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. Rather than bouncing back, we get to enhance our resilience to bounce forward.

Before becoming the #1 expert on resilience, mental health, and wellbeing and living out her dreams, Dr. Taryn Marie suffered from crippling PTSD. After committing to a series of positive life changes, she had a shift in perspective that changed her outlook on life and opened herself up to endless possibility. She is committed to helping others unlock the power of their inherent resilience. Dr. Taryn Marie’s life changing message has opened up audiences around the world to cultures of greater authenticity, gratitude, and endless potential.

As a result of this program, attendees will:

• Recognize that all aspects of their life impact your work, life, and performance.
• Harness The Five Practices that increase wellbeing and mental health during times of stress and uncertainty.
• Learn how small acts can create a large-scale impact in your team, organization, and community.
• Understand how to transform their perspective to optimize performance.

Women, Wellness and Wothiness: How to do what You Always Dreams, but never thought was Possible

Resilience is for men and women, yet women very often have both universal and unique experiences that require them to engage with resilience in both leadership and life. Whether you would like to believe in yourself, set bigger goals, or reach the ones you already have, Dr. Taryn Marie will help you get from “ambition” to “accomplishment” without sacrificing your personal life, wellbeing, or sanity.

Dr. Taryn’s message of radical possibility combined with her Five Practices leaves audiences not only inspired but also equipped with tools to tackle the seemingly insurmountable. Her system of achieving seemingly impossible goals demystifies daunting tasks by turning ‘dreams’ into ‘projects’ and creates inspiration through action and accountability. Dr. Taryn takes a candid look at the ways that well-meaning women sabotage themselves and others, and she reminds us that it’s never too late to start your list and leave your lasting impact on the world. You’ve totally got this!

As a result of this program, attendees will:

• Learn how to accomplish seemingly impossible goals through The Five Practices Steps.
• Identify the #1 thing that holds you back from accomplishing your goals.
• Learn Dr. Taryn Marie’s methods to amplify confidence and banish imposter syndrome for good.
• Develop a plan of action to drive you forward towards your goals and dreams.

The Not-so-Surprising Link between Resilience, Innovation and Creativity: Making the Impossible, Possible

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. Transformational and resilient leaders are critical for every organization, now more than ever, in our ever-changing global landscape as we continue to foster greater innovation and creativity. Yet, what does it mean to be a truly innovative, creative, and resilient leader?

Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal reveals how to harness and enhance resilience, through the empirical model, The Five Practices of Highly Resilient People, that provides a guide to make the seemingly impossible possible by enhancing resilience for
individuals, teams, and organizations when facing challenge, change, and complexity.

As a result of this program, attendees will:

• Understand how psychological safety is a key foundation for creativity and innovation.
• Appreciate how resilience, creativity, and innovation have a reciprocal relationship.
• Learn how to enhance their own and their team’s innovation, creativity, and resilience.
• Appreciate how The Five Practices can support them in making the seemingly impossible become possible.