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Paula Davis

 

Member profile details

First name
Paula
Last name
Davis
 

Personal information

Bio
Paula Davis JD, MAPP, is the Founder and CEO of the Stress & Resilience Institute. For 15 years, she has been a trusted advisor to leaders in organizations of all sizes helping them to make work better. Paula is a globally recognized expert on the effects of workplace stress, burnout prevention, workplace well-being, and building resilience for individuals and teams.

Paula left her law practice after seven years and earned a master’s degree in applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. As part of her post-graduate training, Paula was selected to be part of the University of Pennsylvania faculty teaching and training resilience skills to soldiers as part of the Army’s Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness program. The Penn team trained resilience skills to more than 40,000 soldiers and their family members.

Paula is the author of Beating Burnout at Work: Why Teams Hold the Secret to Well-Being & Resilience, which is about burnout prevention using a teams-based approach. Paula’s second book is Lead Well: 5 Mindsets to Engage, Retain, & Inspire Your Team (February 4, 2025). In it, she shares the mindsets leaders must develop to create thriving team cultures. Both books have been selected as “must reads” by the Next Big Idea Club, which is curated by Adam Grant, Susan Cain, Malcom Gladwell, and Daniel Pink.

Paula has shared her expertise at educational institutions such as Harvard Law School, Wharton School Executive Education, and Princeton. She is a two-time recipient of the distinguished teaching award from the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Her expertise has been featured in and on The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post and many other media outlets. Paula is also a contributor to Forbes, Fast Company, and Psychology Today.

Paula’s website is www.stressandresilience.com, and you can reach her directly at paula@stressandresilience.com.
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Professional Information

Employer
Davis Laack Stress & Resilience Institute
Job title
Founder & CEO
Primary Focus
I own a training and consulting firm that partners with organizations across industries to help them reduce burnout and build resilient teams, leaders and cultures.
Professional Area
  • Business
  • Law
  • Medicine / Health Care
Active Professional Interests
  • Entrepreneurship
Professional Skills
  • Coaching
  • Consulting
  • Facilitating groups
  • Leadership development
  • Speaking
  • Teaching resilience
  • Writing
Coach Training
  • 60+ Hours Coach Training
Fluent in Languages
  • English
 

Education

Degrees Before MAPP
JD (Juris Doctor) from Marquette University Law School (2002)



BS (with honors) in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse (1997)
 

Social Media

Twitter
@pauladavisSRI
Instagram
@stressandresilience
 

Speaking Experience

Interested in Speaking Referrals
Yes
Speaking Topics
Burnout prevention and stress management at work

Resilience generally
Resilience & leadership
Resilience & teams

Leadership mindsets that build thriving work cultures

Self-determination theory

The science of mattering & its application to work teams and leadership
Experience speaking to large audiences
Yes
 

Publications

Blog logo
Book 1 Cover
Book 1 Title
Lead Well: 5 Mindsets to Engage, Retain, and Inspire Your Team
Book 2 Cover
Book 2 Title
Beating Burnout at Work
Media: Radio, TV, or podcasts
See my website - www.stressandresilience.com - for numerous examples of my interviews on various radio shows and podcasts.
Capstone title and abstract
Resilience for busy professionals. The title is Resilience Secrets Every Busy Professional Must Know. Abstract: This capstone is a draft of a book proposal on resilience which will serve as a story-driven and comprehensive guide that will inspire busy professionals to thrive through challenge and change in work and in life. The working title is Resilience Secrets Every Busy Professional Must Know. More than ever, resilience is needed to help busy professionals recover from personal and professional adversities and setbacks, not IF they happen, but WHEN they happen. Disengagement from work and life, stress to the point of fatigue or illness, dissatisfaction with work, and disconnection are all very real obstacles busy professionals face. This book links the science of positive psychology to the field of resilience in an effort to offer busy professionals multiple pathways for building resilience reserves.
 

Contact data

Province/State
WI
Country
USA
MAPP Geography
  • USA - Midwest
 

MAPP Information

MAPP Graduation Year
2010
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