Save the date - Lessons in Resilience Workshop and Book Launch, April 16, 2026.
Building Resilience
Helping individuals, organizations, and communities navigate through change.
An Essential Capability In an Ever-Changing World
Resilient Individuals
Resilient Organizations
Resilient Individuals
Have lower levels of depression
Develop through adversity
Harness inner strength
Manage challenges in healthy ways
Manage stress effectively
Show themselves compassion
Resilient Leaders
Resilient Organizations
Resilient Individuals
Lead others through change
Maintain focus on mission
Manage fear, uncertainty, and doubt
Solve conflict and manage crisis
Demonstrate empathy and compassion
Help others grow through challenges
Resilient Organizations
Resilient Organizations
Resilient Organizations
Seize new opportunities
Avoid obsolescence
Adjust and adapt as forces require
Retain high performers
Have capacity in multiple places
Maintain continuity of operations
Lessons in Resilience
Lessons in Resilience offers practical strategies for navigating traumatic events and chronic stressors. Through personal stories, Dr. Alvarez-Robinson models how to grow through loss, uncertainty, change, and the influence and impact of kinfolk.
Blending professional expertise, scholarly insights, and real-world experience, she shares the five key strategies of her Resilience FIRST Model™:
- Find Your Locus of Control
- Investigate and Manage Your Fear
- Reprogram Unhealthy Conditioning
- Seek Healthy Support
- Take Time for Self-Care
Each strategy provides practical tips and activities to help you build resilience and grow through life's challenges.
About Our Founder
Dr. Sonia Maria Alvarez-Robinson
Dr. Sonia M. Alvarez-Robinson is a distinguished leader in strategy, innovation, culture, leadership, and resilience, with over 30 years of experience helping individuals and organizations to thrive.
As the founder of Life Shift, LLC, she helps individuals navigate personal and professional transitions. She works with organizations to build resilient teams and leadership capabilities. Passionate about empowering future leaders, she developed and teaches Strategies for Building Resilience for college students.
Professionally, Dr. Alvarez-Robinson has led strategy and organizational effectiveness in a university and was a global management consultant in a Big 4 firm. She has helped global companies implement new technologies, operational improvements, and strategic transformations. Her earlier career includes leadership roles in public health strategy, talent management, culture and inclusion, and talent acquisition for state agencies and private sector manufacturing companies.
Dr. Alvarez-Robinson holds a Ph.D. and master's degree in Human and Organizational Systems with a focus on culture and leadership from Fielding Graduate University, a master's degree in human development from St. Mary's University, a bachelor's in human resource management from Metro State University, MN, and is a Humphrey Institute Policy Fellow. She began her academic journey at Minneapolis Community and Technical College and previously served as a certified mediator with the Minnesota Supreme Court.
As a trauma survivor, Dr. Alvarez-Robinson brings a unique blend of extensive academic training, proven professional competence, and personal lived experiences to the field of resilience.