Eileen McDargh started her career as an award-winning teacher and to this day loves telling stories while educating audiences as a professional speaker, coach and consultant. Eileen believes adventure can be a great teacher. She weaves insights taken from adventures like zip lining through a Costa Rica rain forest, climbing remote regions of the Himalayas, kissing 40 ton Pacific Gray whales in Baja and kayaking down whitewater rivers.

Eileen is the founder and CEO of the consulting firm, The Resiliency Group. She teaches organizations like Cisco, Novartis, Oracle, and Procter & Gamble ways of building resilient leadership teams and workplaces. Along with her work as an organizational resiliency consultant, Eileen speaks and writes about resiliency.

Global Gurus International, a British-based provider of resources for leadership, communication and sales training, ranked Eileen as one of the World’s Top 30 Communication Professionals in 2020 following a global survey of 22,000 business professionals.

As a platform speaker, she has given thousands of keynotes for organizations and associations in dozens of fields, including aerospace, education, finance, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, public agencies, real estate, retail, technology, utilities, and women's leadership.

Eileen has written six books and her seventh book Burnout to Breakthrough: Building Resilience to Refuel, Recharge, and Reclaim What Matters is published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers.