and to raise healthy, happy children. It allows people to achieve balance between the needs of work while still having time and energy for home.

With the omnipresent personal accountability for bottom-line results and a persistent threat of down-sizing, workers suffer from the most stressful corporate environment in recent history. Employees feel compelled to spend longer hours in the workplace in a vain attempt to keep pace, with consequent difficulty balancing responsibilities at work and home. Resilience determines how well people do in life. Whether the goal is to overcome depression, sell more insurance or strengthen relationships, resilience is the key.

A resilient attitude is a mindset that creates joyful, purposeful living. Resilient people are:

Anne’s programs blend timely and provocative knowledge and research in the field of resilience with just the right amount of humor and motivation. In fact, she's rumored to be the lost love child of Mark Twain and Lucille Ball for her common sense, wit, and wisdom.

Anne's Resilience Matters! Programs help people know how to:

Anne has energized and enlightened audiences in the banking, insurance, education, technology, health care, human resource and food service industries, as well as the government sector for more than ten years. She has contributed to two books, The Leadership Path and Humor Us.

She began her career in the telecommunications industry, then moved into insurance, banking and financial services. She shattered the glass ceiling when she became the first female Chief Operating Officer of a $1 billion mortgage bank.

Anne served three terms as an elected board member of a large, very diverse school district in Dallas, Texas. Her district was named one of the Top 100 school districts in the nation in a study conducted by The Wall Street Journal. She earned the Master Trustee designation from the Texas Association of School Boards Leadership program and has completed over 450 hours of board training.

Anne became a student of Human Resilience after overcoming adversity in these public and private sector leadership positions. Mastering resilience in facing her own adversities not only changed her life, but in many ways, saved it. She sought after programs are based on current resilience research and sprinkled with real life examples. She is passionate about helping other people apply resilience skills to improve their lives.

Anne Barab, The Resilience Expert, speaks to people and organizations about how to balance attitude, reality, and behavior to craft lives of resilience. Resilience is the ability to bounce back from adversity and reach out to live an enriched life. In the last forty years in hundreds of research studies, resilient people have proven to be better problem-solvers, more persistent, produce greater output and rise to leadership positions faster and more successfully than their non-resilient peers.

Resilience is not an inborn character trait. It is a skill that can be learned. Anne’s Resilience Matters! Programs teach people to understand and practice the mindset of resilient thinking. She has worked with Fortune 500 companies to help their people overcome resistance to change, reduce stress and improve leadership. Resilience is a mind-set that enables people to achieve at the highest levels at work, to have fulfilling, loving relationships,