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Marissa Afton

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Executive coach and corporate consultant who can transform your organization's members with mindfulness

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Marissa Afton is a leadership expert and corporate consultant who helps leaders and organizations unlock their potential to create cultural excellence and superior performance, resilience, and innovation. She has worked across industries with leading companies to amplify employee engagement, organizational commitment, resilient performance, and innovative growth on the individual, team, and organizational levels.

Why you should book Marissa Afton for your next event

  • With over 25 years of experience in mindfulness, Marissa transforms managers and executives into focused and mindful leaders.
  • She is a dynamic, engaging speaker who makes regular appearances at top leadership and HR conferences.

Marissa Afton is a Partner and the Head of Global Accounts for Potential Project, a global research, leadership development, and consulting firm on a mission to create a more human world of work. She has worked across industries with leading companies including Bloomberg, Cisco, Eli Lilly, LVMH, Medtronic, Pfizer, White & Case, and others to amplify employee engagement, organizational commitment, resilient performance, and innovative growth on the individual, team, and organizational levels.

Marissa has an academic background in psychology, has been a mindfulness practitioner for over 25 years and is co-author with fellow speaker Jacqueline Carter of HBR’s groundbreaking book, Compassionate Leadership: How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way.

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Turn Off Worry, Turn On Resilience

During challenging times, the mind can get hooked by obsessive thinking, helplessness, and anxiety, making it harder to see the possibilities in front of us. The way to overcome this natural tendency is to build mental resilience by training our minds.

This uplifting and engaging session will help you understand what resilience really is and the mental qualities behind it and learn how to manage anxiety and stress at work and in life.

You will also learn a simple evidence-based mindfulness technique and practical tips to enhance resilience immediately.

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Develop Mental Agility to Navigate Change and Boost Performance

Mental agility is essential to navigate the complex maze of today’s business reality amid the continuing haze of uncertainty.

In this informative and engaging session, you will develop greater focus, efficiency, and performance for daily work tasks; enhance strategic thinking, prioritization, and innovation.

You will walk away from the session with valuable short-term tips and a long-term strategy, backed by neuroscience, for fostering mental agility.

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Wise Optimism: The Art of Possibility

Organizations continue to grapple with a mental health crisis and anxiety about the future. Wise Optimism can enhance organizational resilience and innovation by adopting a mindset that acknowledges the difficulties but also enables us to focus on what’s possible, igniting a sense of agency to work towards emerging from a crisis in a stronger position.

In this interactive session, you will learn how to develop realistic optimism to enhance confidence, hope, and innovation.

You will also walk away with practical tips to apply Wise Optimism in challenging times for
greater hope and new possibilities.

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Mindfulness to Enhance Leadership Performance at Pfizer

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Training the Mind to Enhance Performance, RST Forum-Human Resource Excellence Center-China

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