Elle Allison-Napolitano
Elle Allison-Napolitano, PhD is founder of Wisdom Out, a company specializing in leadership development and organizational learning by focusing on the nature of resilience and how it empowers leaders to transform adversity into growth.
Since 2000, when her original research revealed the crucial element of resilience in wise leadership, Elle's keynotes and seminars have helped leaders grow in resilience, respond elegantly to the chronic stressors and acute shocks inherent to leadership, and introduce positive disruptive change into the organizations they lead.
Elle's keynotes and seminars are high energy, high content, and humorous (as resilience and wisdom are honed mostly through the college of hard knocks!). She transfers aspirational ideas into highly practical applications that empower leaders and teams to respond to adversity with pluck, grace, and good cheer.
Elle is the author of six books and many articles including, Bounce Forward: The Extraordinary Resilience of Leadership (Corwin Press) as well as a version for nurse leaders titled: Bounce Forward: The Extraordinary Resilience of Nurse Leadership (from the American Nurses Association).
Elle earned her PhD in Organizational Learning at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She is a a graduate of the National Staff Development Academy, is a leading member of the Society for Organizational Learning and a member of the American Nurses Association.
Elle lives in The San Francisco Bay Area with her husband Len.
Elle Allison-Napolitano, PhD is founder of Wisdom Out, a company specializing in leadership development and organizational learning by focusing on the nature of resilience and how it empowers leaders to transform adversity into growth.
Since 2000, when her original research revealed the crucial element of resilience in wise leadership, Elle's keynotes and seminars have helped leaders grow in resilience, respond elegantly to the chronic stressors and acute shocks inherent to leadership, and introduce positive disruptive change into the organizations they lead.
Elle's keynotes and seminars are high energy, high content, and humorous (as resilience and wisdom are honed mostly through the college of hard knocks!). She transfers aspirational ideas into highly practical applications that empower leaders and teams to respond to adversity with pluck, grace, and good cheer.
Elle is the author of six books and many articles including, Bounce Forward: The Extraordinary Resilience of Leadership (Corwin Press) as well as a version for nurse leaders titled: Bounce Forward: The Extraordinary Resilience of Nurse Leadership (from the American Nurses Association).
Elle earned her PhD in Organizational Learning at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She is a a graduate of the National Staff Development Academy, is a leading member of the Society for Organizational Learning and a member of the American Nurses Association.
Elle lives in The San Francisco Bay Area with her husband Len.
Super Strong: The Extraordinary Nature of Leadership Resilience
After a particularly arduous day filled with unexpected and disruptive glitches, Mark Twain purportedly said, "Apparently, anything can happen today." Many leaders working within complex systems would agree, and might even make the observation that anything can and will happen...everyday! Over and over again, resilience proves to be one of the most needed of leadership characteristics. Leadership resilience has a quality of transformation to it-it is not about staying the...
Super Strong In Action: What Highly Resilient People Do When Things Don't Go As Planned
Super Resilience is a heightened capacity to bounce forward in response to adversity. This means that resilient people are slow to fall apart in the first place, recover faster, hit the ground running, and create new realities that take the whole system into a better future. And oh yeah, they do it with more grace, pluck, and good cheer than their less resilient counterparts!
Since adversity is neither rare nor unusual (especially for leaders and teams at the helm of meaningful...
Inviting Disruption: A Crazy, Wonderful Strategy for Building Cultures of Resilience
Even the best leaders cannot predict a specific disruptive change, adverse incident, or wild card event. What we can do, however, is shape a resilient organization-an organization capable of responding elegantly to unpredictable events, no matter what form they take. Ironically, the most powerful way organizations get ahead of disruptive change is to initiate conversations that actually invite disorder. Leaders in these organizations learn to ask status-quo-challenging questions...
Strong As Hell: The Extraordinary Resilience of Female Leadership
Human Beings possess incredibly reliable adaptive systems that allow them to absorb, process, and bounce back from life's vicissitudes. Beautifully, resilience is common and it works for all of us. But are there differences in resilience between the genders? I will say this; For many women,the assets that make leaders more resilient are elusive or incredibly hard won.
After all, the more diversity in an organization's workforce, the more relevant and profitable it becomes....
