SAME Tulsa Monthly Meeting: Leadership Development

Building Healthy Resilience in Individuals and Organizations

Resilience, the ability to stay steady, focused, and productive when things get tough, is one of the best predictors of success in both work and life. Organizations want to hire and develop resilient employees who can handle intense external volatility and ever climbing workloads. Individuals may also seek ways to increase their ability to withstand the pressure when they start to feel the impacts of sustained stress. And building resilience is, largely, a worthwhile and achievable goal for both individuals and organizations. It can boost well-being, sustainability, and results. But you can have too much of a good thing. Evidence shows there's a limit to how helpful resilience can be. And sometimes being "too resilient" in the face of real problems does more harm than good. This talk will discuss what healthy resiliency looks like and how to foster it in people and organizations.

Guest Speaker: Amy Renshaw, University of Tulsa Professor, Industrial/Organizational Psychologist, Career Coach

Amy is an Industrial/Organizational psychologist with over 10 years of internal and external consulting experience. She first honed her ability to translate research and theory into practical application in her tenure as a Consultant at Hogan Assessments guiding Fortune 500 companies through data-backed talent acquisition and development initiatives. She then helped leaders understand and build the future-focused capabilities of their talent by assessing and developing high potentials, elevating a succession planning strategy, building leader development programs, and mining and translating talent data into meaningful stories for the Executive Officer Team and Board of Directors while at Williams. Amy now has her own consulting and coaching practice focused on developing emerging talent, particularly in non-profit and entrepreneurial settings. Recent projects include building and facilitating leader development programs for BEST and George Kaiser Family Foundation partners, enhancing internal mobility for diverse leaders within Stanford University Healthcare, and supporting the development of high-potential leaders with Feeding America. She also serves as an adjunct professor for the University of Tulsa undergraduate and graduate psychology program, where she received her Master's degree.

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