With just over two months until the HR Virginia Annual State Conference, we are pleased to announce our third and final keynote speaker, Dr. Taryn Marie!
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 speaker 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, endorsed by Arianna Huffington, Maria Shriver, Daniel Pink, and many others. Global Gurus has recognized Dr. Taryn Marie as a Top 30 Thinker in Leadership for 2023 and 2024, she is a Marshall Goldsmith Top 100 Global Executive Coach (MG100). She was a finalist for the Tony Hsieh Award, named for the former CEO of Zappos and awarded to those who are leading human capital innovation, and she was recognized by USA Today as a Top Entrepreneur to Watch for 2023. Her work has been featured by Fox and NBC News, NY Magazine, Bloomberg Business, Tamron Hall Show, Thrive Global, and Forbes. Her TEDx talk entitled “How Resilience Breaks Us Out of Our Vulnerability Cage” has been viewed over 1 million times!
She 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 post-doctoral 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). She is the host of the top 1% acclaimed podcast Flourish or Fold: Stories of Resilience, where well-known people share their lesser well-known stories of facing challenge. In addition to leading RLI, Dr. Taryn Marie works with her family office to invest in the next generation of cutting-edge AI technology in the sectors of healthcare, wellbeing, and mental health. Her sons Samson and Sawyer, ages 12 and 10 are always teaching her about resilience.
In her session, Dr. Taryn Marie will talk with us about how resilience supports navigating change, disruption, and uncertainty. She will share advice and tips about how HR professionals can drive deeper connection and engagement for themselves, their people and their organizations, and finally she will share practical strategies for enhancing resilience and transforming through difficulty.
We can’t wait to hear Dr. Taryn’s story and learn tips that will help us navigate today’s challenging HR waters. To secure your seat at this uplifting and engaging session, register for the conference before it sells out!
