Full Name
Taryn Marie Stejskal
Company
Resilience Leadership Institute
Job Title
Founder, Chief Resilience Officer
Speaker Bio
USA Today recognizes Dr. Taryn Marie as the #1 international expert on resilience, mental health, and wellbeing, and she serves as a sought-after international inspirational keynote speakers on topics related to psychological safety, compassionate accountability, personal leadership, and navigating change. Leveraging her two decades of expertise, as the former Head of Executive Leadership Development and Talent Strategy at Nike and the former Head of Global Leadership Development at Cigna, she founded the Resilience Leadership Institute (RLI) where she works with her family office along with individuals, teams, and organizations within Fortune 500 Companies to amplify leadership capabilities, turn businesses around, and support businesses to scale. LA Progressive magazine calls her “the go-to person” and “a secret weapon” for teams who want to find their edge and rise above the competition.

 Dr. Taryn Marie is a #1 Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Bestselling Author of the book, The Five Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why some flourish when others fold.

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, funded by the National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) at the National Institute of Health (NIH).
Taryn Marie Stejskal