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 speakers on topics related to psychological safety, compassionate accountability, personal leadership, and navigating change. 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.

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), a finalist for the Tony Hsieh Award, named for the former CEO of Zappos, awarded to those who are leading human capital innovation, and 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!

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 top 1% acclaimed podcast Flourish or Fold: Stories of Resilience. Her sons Samson and Sawyer, ages 12 and 10 are always teaching her about resilience.