Paula Davis

Paula Davis, JD, MAPP, is the founder and CEO of the Stress & Resilience Institute, a training and consulting firm that helps organizations reduce burnout and build resilience at the team, leader, and organizational level. A former practicing lawyer, she left her law practice after seven years and went on to earn a master’s degree in applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was selected to be part of the university’s faculty teaching resilience skills to soldiers and families as part of the U.S. Army’s Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness program. Through that work, her team helped train resilience skills to more than 40,000 soldiers and their family members.

Davis is the author of Lead Well: 5 Mindsets to Engage, Retain, and Inspire Your Team and Beating Burnout at Work: Why Teams Hold the Secret to Well-Being & Resilience. Her expertise in burnout prevention, resilience, and workplace well-being has been featured in outlets such as The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, and The Washington Post, and she has contributed articles to Forbes, Fast Company, and Psychology Today. She has taught thousands of professionals, leaders, and