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Olga Phoenix, MPA, MA is the world’s leading resilience and vicarious trauma prevention expert, speaker, trainer, and best-selling author, based in St. Petersburg, FL, USA. Featured widely in media outlets such as Women’s Health, Thrive Global, Authority Magazine, Popsugar, and Positive Psychology, she has been setting the standard in the US and abroad since 2007 when it comes to highly customized, solutions-packed keynotes, trainings, and courses that educate, empower, and inspire action.

Equipped with bountiful energy, passion, and humor, as well as the latest evidence-based research and cutting-edge training strategies, Olga delivers powerful content and tools that banish burnout and vicarious trauma, foster workplace wellbeing, build resilient teams, and dramatically transform the overall quality of life in her education, healthcare, nonprofit, government, and corporate clients.

If you are looking for immediate solutions and actionable results, don’t wait another minute to book your free consultation with Olga in the contact form below! Let’s optimize your team’s resilience and wellbeing! It’s time to flourish!

Most Requested Keynotes:

Resilience in Education: How to Emerge Stronger in 2021
7 Ultimate Strategies to Elevate Organizational Wellbeing
Building Resilience and Wellbeing in Academic Leadership
Thriving You: 3 Key Steps to Vicarious Trauma Prevention
Three Key Secrets of Resilience, Self-Care, and Happiness

Strategic Resilience: Your Agency’s Ultimate Guide to Wellbeing and Vicarious Trauma Prevention

Strategic resilience is now recognized as the key to lasting personal and professional wellbeing, as well as the primary tool for vicarious trauma prevention. The most effective way to build resilience, dramatically improve wellbeing, address and prevent vicarious trauma is through (1) individual vicarious trauma prevention and resilience-building plans, along with (2) agency-specific resilience-building organizational policies and programming.

This training will guide your team members through individual personalized and sustainable resilience plan building process; as well as introduce a variety of customizable programming, evaluation, and implementation strategies and tools to foster a vicarious trauma-free organizational culture of resilience, wellbeing, and vicarious trauma prevention. As a result of this training, your team will be equipped with invaluable personal and professional tools designed to inspire and empower them to strategize resilience, boost wellbeing, and flourish.

Thriving You: The Essential Blueprint to Resilience, Wellbeing, and Vicarious Trauma Prevention

Education, mental health, and medical professionals often change lives, eliminate human suffering, and help children and families thrive. But ongoing exposure to the trauma of others, and as a result, stress, burnout, and vicarious trauma become unintended consequences of these professions. Strategic resilience is the key to lasting personal and professional wellbeing, as well as the primary tool for vicarious trauma prevention.

This training is designed to restore, increase, and sustain your sense of resilience and wellbeing during these challenging times. You will gain a unique insight into research, myths, and facts about the science of strategic resilience and vicarious trauma prevention; learn about the neurobiology of crisis and discover 3 core components of creating resilience; explore practical strategies and engage in a series of step-by-step experiential exercises and assessments specifically selected to empower and inspire you to successfully integrate your newfound resilience, wellbeing, and vicarious trauma prevention kit into your life.

Testimonials

What our clients say

Olga far exceeded our expectations at the annual conference. Her ability to engage and hold the audience’s interest was amazing. She shared the latest research and its practical applications in the most engaging manner. Our participants left inspired and excited to put her teachings into practice. She received the highest reviews from the attendees.

Meg WilsonPresident, Pinnacle Trust Communications

Olga is a leading expert in her field, but her real strengths are in how she connects with her audience-with authenticity, energy, exuberance and presents practical strategic plan of action packed with impactful solutions. We are looking forward to implementing organizational wellbeing blueprint Olga developed for us.

Wendy ArnoldVice President, Total Solutions USA

By combining research, evidence-based strategies, and cutting-edge training techniques, Olga facilitates significate and widespread positive shifts in health and wellbeing of organizations and teams. Her training program has been essential to reducing vicarious trauma, building resilience, and improving wellbeing of our team. Thank you Olga!

Lisa DavisProgram Director, Air Force

We hosted Olga for a two-day training for our organization and our community partners. She did an excellent job-her presentation, techniques, and strategies were powerful and transforming. As an executive director I am dedicated and inspired more than ever to employ her strategies to help our team thrive! Thank Olga for your work!!!

Janet RoutzenExecutive Director, White Buffalo Calf Woman Society

Olga brought a great deal of positive energy, knowledge, and simple, yet transformational tools to help our teachers succeed. The discussion of research and cases from the field on burnout and vicarious trauma was eye opening and reiterated the great necessity of resilience and sustainable wellbeing plan. We are now equipped to start new school year!

Tom AndersenSuperintendent, Washington State Schools

We’ve been fortunate to host Olga for a day of training and it was a great experience. Both leadership and team members found her content very engaging, informative, and applicable to our lives in and out of work. Training participants shared on how inspired and engaged they were throughout the session and glad to have valuable takeaways as well.

Russ O’ConnellStudent Affairs Director, Warner College

So far, we hosted Olga twice with her organizational self-care and resilience building programming. She has a special way of dealing with tough topics employing gentleness and humor. We look forward to integrating organizational self-care and resilience into our work. Thank you, so much and good luck, with all things!

David TheisExecutive Director, Ann Martin Center

It was great having Olga come out and facilitate a training for our staff, volunteers, and Board of Directors. Most of us have participated in her webinars –but being able to have her engage with our team and address their individual needs was terrific! Olga tailored her training and design to our unique community. Thanks for coming out Olga, drop by for a visit anytime!

John EtchemendyExecutive Director, Safe Embrace