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Dr Taryn Marie Stejskal is a resiliance educator. She is a former head of executive leadership development at Nike, global leadership development at Cigna, and founded resilience leadership where she serves as chief resilience officer, leveraging over a decade of research on resilience that gave birth to the empirically-based framework, The Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People. She is a sought-after coach for executives, athletes, musicians, and actors seeking to harness their inherent resilience. Dr. Taryn Marie is the author of "Flourish or Fold: Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People" and is featured in the forthcoming documentary breaking free. She is a co-founder of the resilience element (RE75), focused on making resilience accessible internationally through film and wearable technology, as well as serving as a global marshall goldsmith top 100 coach.
Her groundbreaking research on resilience has been showcased in publications such as Forbes, Ariana Huffington's Thrive Global, Ladders, LA Progressive, Welum Magazine's Women Who Inspire Worldwide, TV broadcasts, as well as applications including Happify, eMindful, and Powerful Universe. Here undergrad in psychology is from the University of Michigan, along with a master's in marriage and family therapy and a doctorate from the University of Maryland. She completed her pre and post-doctoral fellowship at Virginia commonwealth medical university. She serves as an expositor to the African Community in Conservation Federation (ACCF) and, as of recently, is a homeschooling mom to two boys. A quote that stood out from Dr. Taryn Marie was, "I grew up with undiagnosed dyslexia and a series of traumatic experiences in high school that left me with two decades of post-traumatic stress disorder. In short, growing up, I didn't think I was very smart, and I felt very afraid of the world a lot of the time."
