Despite having her right leg amputated at age five, Bonnie St. John became the first African-American ever to win medals in Winter Olympic competition, taking home a silver and two bronze medals at the 1984 Winter Paralympics in Innsbruck, Austria.
Bonnie graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard, earned a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, and served in the White House as a Director of the National Economic Council. She has been featured extensively in both national and international media. NBC Nightly News called Bonnie "One of the five most inspiring women in America."
Allen P. Haines has served as CEO of several high-growth, mid-sized creative marketing companies in the movie and television industries. In 2010, he cofounded The Blue Circle Leadership Institute where he is instrumental in the creation and distribution of a variety of highly successful leadership training programs across dozens of industries.
"Micro-Resilience is a powerful book that will help you rethink the
drive-until-you-drop approach to work. By reframing your thinking
in the way St. John and Haines describe, you can learn to learn
bounce back from setbacks and create a life of power and
meaning."--Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and To Sell is Human
"Micro-Resilience is a transformative program that doesn't force
you to change, but instead enhances the resources you already have
to give you much more focus and energy."--Walter Isaacson, author
of STEVE JOBS, CEO Aspen Leadership Institute, former CEO of CNN
and TIME Magazine
"Bonnie St. John has focused on how to increase hour-by-hour
resilience, which is critical in today's world. Her approach
integrates science-based, intentional and immediate recoveries and
has broad application to health care and other service industries
that count on teams to deliver their best. Micro-Resilience is a
great example of a 21st century solution to meet our 21st century
challenges and opportunities."--Bernard J. Tyson, Chairman and CEO,
Kaiser Permanente
"Read + Heed the inspirational stories and insights shared in
Micro-Resilience. Doing so will result in you having the courage to
face adversity plus the confidence to manage, adapt and respond to
whatever 'disruptions' life sends your way."--Kevin Carroll,
author, speaker, change agent
"We may learn best from our failures. But our successes require
that we reach down deep and muster the resilience to act on what we
have learned. In Micro-Resilience, Bonnie St. John and Allen Haines
not only inspire us that we can be better, they illuminate the path
forward."--Gary Heil, founder of The Center for Innovative
Leadership
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