Eileen McDargh

Eileen McDargh is the founder and CEO of The Resiliency Group and one of the nation’s leading experts on building resilient leaders, teams, and workplaces. Organizations including Cisco, Novartis, Oracle, and Procter and Gamble hire her firm to develop the adaptability and agility that today’s turbulent business environment demands.

A Hall of Fame Speaker and Globally Ranked Thought Leader

McDargh has been named to the Global Gurus Top 30 Leadership Professionals list and Leadership Excellence magazine’s Top 50 Leadership Thinkers. A member of the National Speakers Association Board of Directors, she was elected into the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame, placing her among the top three percent of speakers in the United States, and received the Legend of the Platform Award from her peers. Before launching her consultancy, she served as Director of Communications for a national healthcare company and as a senior manager on a U.S. Navy installation project.

Author of Seven Books on Resilience, Leadership, and Work-Life Integration

McDargh is the author of seven books including Burnout to Breakthrough, Your Resiliency GPS, The Resilient Spirit, and the pioneering Work for a Living and Still Be Free to Live, the first book ever written on work-life balance. Her book Gifts from the Mountain won the Benjamin Franklin Gold Award. A researcher affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania’s Sloan Work and Family Researcher Network, she delivers keynotes on radical resilience, burnout prevention, leadership in turbulent times, and work-life integration that leave audiences energized with practical strategies they can apply immediately.

Radical Resilience: Staying Right-Side Up in a World That’s Upside Down

Radically turbulent times demand professional and personal responses that transcend our regular work and life patterns. It’s not about happy faces on mirrors and mantras on coffee mugs. It’s not about hanging on while holding back. It’s about times when you feel someone ate your cheese, drained the swamp, and went from great to less-than-good. Eileen’s book The Resilient Spirit is an ideal gift that can be personalized as a take-home reminder of powerful lessons.

Radical resilience requires the courage to challenge, commit, and contribute in ways that positively impact both today as well as many tomorrows. Based upon the length of the presentation, participants will:

Discover how to grow the skills of adaptability, agility, laugh-ability, and alignment for producing results that put YOU in control of your ship.

Learn a four-part model for methodically tackling the tough issues you currently face.

Explore what great leaders do to inspire teams to stay in the game and thrive. (And it has NOTHING to do with money!) Get them energized, actualized, authorized, and gratified.

Develop a personal legacy leadership goal that defies downturns and disappointments.

The Power of Engagement: Inside Out Leadership for Resilient Teams

The “soft stuff” of business is always the hardest part of business.

It’s time to START talking and get back to work! Create a competitive edge in engaging and retaining talented employees and customers on the most human of playing fields: conversation. Without that connection, there is no energy of engagement. Discover the secret of viewing points, orange batons and Little Davids in creating teams and fostering loyalty. The latest report from DDI reports that more than 40% of leaders crave soft skills that can help them work better with others.

The results will be:

Clear understanding of what energizes employees and what depletes.

Connected and cohesive stakeholders.

Candid conversations that can generate a renewed commitment.

Lead-Her-Ship: Claiming The Power, Passion, Play & Purpose Of Our Lives

Gather women together and you have an energy source to light even the darkest corners of the world. Eileen puts a match to that energy. A presentation for reliving and laughing about our foibles, for celebrating our uniqueness, for renewing our passion and commitment to life, and for establishing the common traits which allow all of us to bloom where we are planted. We can learn to be heroines of our own story and leaders shaping tomorrow for all our children. This is your time to refresh, realign, reawaken, reflect, refuel, regenerate, rejoice, release, remember and renew.

Participants will learn to:

Celebrate all you are (outlaw negative thinking and projection paralysis; banish living to someone else’s expectations.)

Be fully alive (laughter and tears flow from the same well.)

Act on the dream (small gifts-great rewards.)

Love without ceasing (the grace of gratitude.)

In-joy the ride (power of laughter.)

Work for a Living & Still Be Free to Live: The Secret for a Resilient Life

Balance is baloney! Discover a better metaphor for the realities of living in a 24/7 world. Learn the power of choice and how to conduct a C.A.T. scan of your life. Develop strategies to create a life by YOUR design and not by default.

A critical topic for all walks of life and one Eileen has followed since authoring the first book ever written on this topic.

Make no mistake—everyone works—whether for free or fee!

How can you work smart and live happier? Is it even possible to have work/life balance in this fast-paced, frantic world? From senior executives to front line employees, this issue is key to the changing nature of America’s workforce and today’s world.

We hear about the need to balance personal and work priorities, but how do you go from burned out to fired up? How can we juggle the many responsibilities and demands on our busy lives?

In this insightful and interactive program you will:

Understand why traditional models of balance no longer work in these times of change.

Discover how to conduct your own “CAT” scan of life.

Acquire the skills to “sail” within the five critical areas of living.

Create your own action plan for juggling the demands of your fast-paced life.

Develop personal strategies for creating “a life by design, not be default”.

Learn at least three methods for effective self-management and self-improvement that you can put to work immediately.