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Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal (pronounced Stay-skull) is the Founder and Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) of Resilience Leadership Institute (RLI), she is recognized #1 international expert on resilience, mental health, and wellbeing in both leadership and life, whose mission is to positively impact the lives of 1 billion people, by enhancing hope, healing, and health as well as enhanced consciousness through the practices of resilience. Her work has been featured by Fox and NBC News, Bloomberg Business, Thrive Global, and Forbes. LA Progressive magazine calls her “the go-to person” and “a secret weapon” for people who want to find and maintain their edge as well as rise above the competition. By conducting two decades of original research on resilience, Dr. Taryn Marie developed the empirically based framework, The Five Practices of Highly Resilient People and believes that resilience is the key to individual, teams, and organizational growth and acceleration across the globe. 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. Dr. Taryn Marie earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Maryland and completed pre- and postdoctoral fellowships in neuropsychology at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. She is a Marshall Goldsmith Top 100 Coach Globally (MG100) and received the Continental Who’s Who award for her executive leadership coaching. She is honored to serve as a sought-after trusted advisor for executives, public figures, and individuals from all industries who are looking for an edge by way of understanding and harnessing their inherent resilience. She is married to the love to her life, and together, they have a family of five children, two biological and three bonus children, which is always teaching her about resilience! Her book entitled The Five Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why some flourish when others fold is set to release in March of 2023, and her online course, Flourish is available now!

Michael Molinaro is Chief Learning Officer of New York Life, a Fortune 100 company founded in 1845: the largest mutual life insurance company in the United States and one of the largest life insurers in the world. Michael joined the firm in 2009. Under his leadership, New York Life has been consistently ranked by CLO Magazine as a Gold-Level Learning Elite organization. Prior to joining New York Life Michael spent 12 years in London, England where he was Head of Learning for Deutsche Bank in the UK from 1998-2005 and was UK Head of Learning for UBS Investment Bank from 2005 until 2009. Before holding these roles, Michael was North American Head of Learning and Development for Reuters. He has also held senior learning and organization development roles at AIG, Citibank-Smith Barney, Shearson Lehman Brothers, and Drexel Burnham Lambert. Michael has also acted as an independent consultant and coach to Fortune 100 companies in the US and Europe. He has written several papers on the topics of executive coaching, leadership development, and organizational culture, including “Coaching & Culture Change” (together with Anika Gakovic and Hy Pomerance) published in 2011, and “Being on One's Way; The Path to Leadership", published in 2018. His most recent work, written together with Gregg Thompson; "Purpose-Driven is Not Enough" was published in April 2021. Michael lives in New York City and Barnegat Light, New Jersey.

The youngest of four brothers, Guy was born and raised in Israel. He spent 12 years as a Fighter Pilot in the Israeli Air Force, getting his BA in Information Technologies and Physics from Ben Gurion University. Following his career in the Air Force, Guy graduated from Yale School of Management and joined McKinsey & Co. where he was an Associate Partner, focusing on Digital and Analytics. Guy co-founded Healthee following his own experience trying to navigate his health benefits and his aspiration to help people be healthier by transforming their healthcare experience. Fun fact: Before moving to the US, I flew F16s for 12 years

Tomissa has a passion for creating a culture of Learning, emphasizing capability building and collaborating across the organization to drive impact. Tomissa has more than 30 years of diverse experience having worked in L&D, Retail Sales, Supply Chain, HR, Sales Finance, Customer Service and DSD. She leads the development of comprehensive Learning strategies; ties learning to business solutions and consults with the business to overcome business challenges. Tomissa has created a high-performance team to build Sales Capabilities instilling agility to meet the changing business needs with a transformation drive and make it happen spirit. Tomissa has developed a Sales Learning & Development Value Proposition enabling our Sales Vision by activating an Intentional Learner Mindset. Designed, developed and implemented a Customer Engagement platform, a 3-year strategic collaboration for mutual sustainable growth with priority initiatives and Customer engagement roadmaps. With Tomissa’s strong Change Management background she has designed, developed and implement stakeholder engagement plans to communicate and drive a culture of change. In 2020 and 2021 she received 100% favorable engagement on the Global Opinion Survey.

JP is a Chief Diversity, Inclusion, and People strategist for the Center for Reproductive Rights with 21 years of change management and inclusive workforce experience across corporate, nonprofit, and government enterprises. She leads the Center with a proven track record in strategic planning, DEI roadmaps, DEI learning & professional development, operational rollout of People/HR initiatives, and data reporting on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)/Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)/DEI metrics. She is equally passionate about facilitation of evidence-based courageous conversations around structural workplace inequities. Her areas of strength include fostering accountability and transparency through reporting, attrition/retention strategies, career mobility programming, mentorship/sponsorship/leadership programs, intersectional representation, supplier diversity, capacity strengthening of minority/women-owned businesses, and diversity IQ/unconscious bias awareness training. Moreover, JP highly enjoys coupling DEI strategies with social impact and sustainability frameworks such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) materiality, B-corps certification, GRI, SASB, and UNPRI sustainability reporting. JP holds a master’s degree in Population Demography and Global Health from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts & Sciences degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She enjoys applying her knowledge of quantitative and qualitative methods to work in the context of locally-led project teams. JP is fluent in English and French, and brings working experience from over 30 countries, 23 of which have been throughout Africa. She is also a mother of four boisterous children and a proud member of an eight-person Haitian-Sudanese extended family household.

Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal (pronounced Stay-skull) is the Founder and Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) of Resilience Leadership Institute (RLI), she is recognized #1 international expert on resilience, mental health, and wellbeing in both leadership and life, whose mission is to positively impact the lives of 1 billion people, by enhancing hope, healing, and health as well as enhanced consciousness through the practices of resilience. Her work has been featured by Fox and NBC News, Bloomberg Business, Thrive Global, and Forbes. LA Progressive magazine calls her “the go-to person” and “a secret weapon” for people who want to find and maintain their edge as well as rise above the competition. By conducting two decades of original research on resilience, Dr. Taryn Marie developed the empirically based framework, The Five Practices of Highly Resilient People and believes that resilience is the key to individual, teams, and organizational growth and acceleration across the globe. 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. Dr. Taryn Marie earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Maryland and completed pre- and postdoctoral fellowships in neuropsychology at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. She is a Marshall Goldsmith Top 100 Coach Globally (MG100) and received the Continental Who’s Who award for her executive leadership coaching. She is honored to serve as a sought-after trusted advisor for executives, public figures, and individuals from all industries who are looking for an edge by way of understanding and harnessing their inherent resilience. She is married to the love to her life, and together, they have a family of five children, two biological and three bonus children, which is always teaching her about resilience! Her book entitled The Five Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why some flourish when others fold is set to release in March of 2023, and her online course, Flourish is available now!

Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal (pronounced Stay-skull) is the Founder and Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) of Resilience Leadership Institute (RLI), she is recognized #1 international expert on resilience, mental health, and wellbeing in both leadership and life, whose mission is to positively impact the lives of 1 billion people, by enhancing hope, healing, and health as well as enhanced consciousness through the practices of resilience. Her work has been featured by Fox and NBC News, Bloomberg Business, Thrive Global, and Forbes. LA Progressive magazine calls her “the go-to person” and “a secret weapon” for people who want to find and maintain their edge as well as rise above the competition. By conducting two decades of original research on resilience, Dr. Taryn Marie developed the empirically based framework, The Five Practices of Highly Resilient People and believes that resilience is the key to individual, teams, and organizational growth and acceleration across the globe. 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. Dr. Taryn Marie earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Maryland and completed pre- and postdoctoral fellowships in neuropsychology at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. She is a Marshall Goldsmith Top 100 Coach Globally (MG100) and received the Continental Who’s Who award for her executive leadership coaching. She is honored to serve as a sought-after trusted advisor for executives, public figures, and individuals from all industries who are looking for an edge by way of understanding and harnessing their inherent resilience. She is married to the love to her life, and together, they have a family of five children, two biological and three bonus children, which is always teaching her about resilience! Her book entitled The Five Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why some flourish when others fold is set to release in March of 2023, and her online course, Flourish is available now!