Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal

Speaking topics

Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

• Flourish or Fold: The Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People

  What are the attributes that determine whether a leader, team, or organization will flourish or fold? After conducting over a decade of research to understand how people harness resilience in leadership and life, resilience is emerging as the key differentiator that sustains people in moments of difficulty, ambiguity, and adversity. Put simply, our ability to be resilient is the active ingredient that determines whether we flourish or fold.

  At a time when business is facing challenge, change, and complexity, enhancing resilience has never been more important. World renowned resilience expert and former head of executive development at Nike Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal shares with audiences the five practices of particularly resilient people — behaviours we can all access to increase our resilience.

  Resilience is fundamentally at the core of what it means to be human and to be a leader and has been the element of leadership development that has been both overlooked and largely misunderstood. Stejskal inspires and engages audiences with a practical, tangible, and relevant approach to enhancing resilience.

• The (Not-So-Surprising) Link Between Resilience, Innovation, and Creativity

  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: resilience.

• Resilience and Mental Health

  Can we flourish in the workplace and effectively address mental health? How can individuals and teams, as well as organizational cultures, promote mental health for all employees? Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal reveals the answers to these questions by exploring the advances in behavioural health, social psychology, and the dynamics associated with the most effective teams.

• The New Rules of Resilience: Thriving in an Uncertain and Virtual World

  Transformational and resilient leaders are critical for every organization, now more than ever, in our ever-changing global landscape. Yet, what does it mean to be a truly transformational and resilient leader? Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal reveals how to harness and enhance resilience, through the research-based model, The Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People, that promotes leadership resilience for individuals, teams, and organizations when facing challenge, change, and complexity.

• Women, Wellness, and Worthiness

  Since COVID-19 became a global health pandemic, the trying, tumultuous, and transformative elements have been nothing short of difficult for all of us, especially for the millions of women that have left the workforce in the last year. The detrimental impact of the pandemic on women is becoming more widely recognized, and even referred to as a “she-cession”. Discover how resilience can be leveraged to create greater sustainability for women in the workforce.

• From Burnout to Balance

  We’re all feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and struggling to navigate high levels of stress and uncertainty. The volume of challenge, change, and complexity has left so many people feeling charred and frayed at the seams. Fortunately, to beat back burnout and find more balance, there is hope.

  As an expert on resilience, Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal provides practical, actionable, and research-based solutions for individuals, teams, and organizations to find greater balance, peace, and well-being. She will help you build resilience through her characteristic inspiration, storytelling, and empirical work, drawing on her unique background heading global leadership development for Fortune 50 organizations. Many of the strategies and skills we’ve used to create and maintain mental health from the past are no longer effective in our hybrid and virtual environments. In our new world of work, what got us here is no longer relevant for the present — let alone the future. This keynote provides a new roadmap for how to navigate balance for today and beyond.