Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal (pronounced Stay-skull) is recognized by USA Today as the No. 1 international expert on resilience, mental health, and well-being, and she is the founder of the Resilience Leadership Institute (RLI). Her mission is to impact the lives of 1 billion people positively, by enhancing hope, along with overall health and wellness through the practices of resilience. Prior to founding RLI, she served as the head of Executive Leadership Development & Talent Strategy at Nike, as well as head of Global Leadership Development at Cigna.

Her book titled The Five Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why Some Flourish When Others Fold is a No. 1 Wall Street Journal best seller and was endorsed by Arianna Huffington, Daniel Pink, and Kathy Ireland. Global Gurus has recognized Dr. Taryn Marie as a Top 30 Thinker in Leadership. She is a Marshall Goldsmith Top 100 Global Executive Coach, and a finalist for the Tony Hsieh Award, focused on people who are leading progressive change in human capital. 

Her work has been featured by Fox, NBC News, The Tamron Hall Show, Bloomberg Business, NY Weekly, Thrive Global, and Forbes. Her TEDx talk, “How Resilience Breaks Us Out of Our Vulnerability Cage,” has been viewed more than 1.3 million times. LA Progressive magazine calls her “the go-to person” and “a secret weapon” for CEOs and leadership teams who want to find their edge as well as rise above the competition.

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 chart-topping podcast, Flourish or Fold: Stories of Resilience.