<p>Courtney Clark helps teams adapt to change, embrace resilience and achieve more.</p><p>In her twenties, Courtney Clark was “the luckiest unlucky person in the world.” She survived both cancer and a brain aneurysm and then went on to build two successful businesses and to write three books—<em>The Giving Prescription,</em> <em>The Successful Struggle: Powerful Techniques to Achieve Accelerated Resilience </em>and her most recent <em>ReVisionary Thinking</em>. Her work has appeared in multiple publications, including <em>Forbes, Psychology Today, USA Today,</em> and <em>the Chicago Tribune.</em></p><p>As a resilience and change management expert, Courtney works with organizations to help teams succeed in the face of stress and change without burning out, lashing out or giving up. Her trademarked approach to “accelerated resilience” gives audiences quick, proven methods—informed by research and her own lived experience—to adapt faster and achieve more. Using her own approach to content-based motivation, Courtney blends stories, research, humor, and dynamic audience interactions to motivate teams, and her resilience work has been called “practical,” “powerful” and “empowering” by industry leaders at organizations such as P&G, Google, Dell, Humana, Cisco and Cardinal Health.</p><p>Courtney was the founder and director of the organization Austin Involved and she is currently CEO of Courtney Clark and Associates. She serves on the board of trustees for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and is a past president of the Austin chapter of the National Speakers Association. She holds degrees from NYU and St. Mary’s University of Minnesota.</p>
Resilience and change-management expert, cancer survivor and CEO
<ul><li><strong>The Short Cut™ How Productive Persistence™ Outperforms Grit</strong></li><li>If at first you don’t succeed… then what? While traditional resilience emphasizes never giving up, true success comes from knowing when to persevere and when to pivot.</li><li>Empower your team with realistic resilience strategies that go beyond clichés. The Short Cut is an evidence-backed form of resilience based on Courtney’s National Goal Resilience Study, designed to prevent burnout and increase adaptability in the face of change. This session offers practical insights to help you maximize progress, avoid dead ends, and achieve lasting success.</li><li><strong>Detour: Winning When Life Doesn’t Go According to Plan</strong></li><li>Hard work usually pays off. But sometimes, no matter how hard you work, your plans just… DON’T work. Resilience researcher Courtney Clark helps teams adapt to change and crisis when the stakes are high, and she has proven techniques to help you deal with life’s detours with humor, resilience, and tenacity. In this inspiring and interactive presentation, you’ll learn a multi-step framework for creating optimal outcomes in uncontrollable situations.</li><li><strong>ReVisionary Thinking: The Science and Strategy of Adapting to Change</strong></li><li>Can you reach your goals, even if things aren’t going the way you expect? Most people are good at setting goals and making plans, but not very good at revising those plans when things change. But that’s the real work of resilience. Resilience is letting go of the “old way of doing things” and rewriting a script for success that gives you the fastest and best path from where you are to where you want to go. Backed by Courtney’s data-driven research, ReVisionary Thinking offers concrete strategies for blazing a new path when the goalposts move on you.</li><li><strong>The Art of Accelerated Resilience™</strong></li><li>Strategies to Help Change Go Faster and Better</li><li>In today’s competitive world, there’s no time to recover from our setbacks slowly. The research-based strategies from Courtney’s new book, The Successful Struggle, will have your team managing change, stress, conflict, and life’s other challenges in the fastest, most productive way possible.</li></ul>