Mollie Marti

A social psychologist, lawyer, and author, Mollie Marti is founding CEO of Worldmaker Resilience Institute, a nonprofit that provides evidence-based resilience programming and crisis response services. Worldmaker has delivered resilience education in more than 150 countries and supported veterans in over 20 nations. Mollie’s frameworks, including the THRIVE Resilience Model™, has been widely adapted across the military, crisis response, education, and healthcare sectors. Her research extends beyond individual resilience traits to identify the most important factors that drive group norms of hope, help seeking, and well-being. She hosts the Resiliency Matters TV show, broadcast to more than 250,000 households, and is the author of three books that have been translated into eight languages. A proud multi-generational military and first responder family member, Mollie is fueled by a desire to support those who serve and safeguard others, and to help communities prepare for and rebuild after crisis. Prior to her nonprofit executive work, Mollie served as the Associate Director of the Iowa Social Science Institute, taught as an adjunct professor of psychology at the University of Iowa and garnered over a decade of experience coaching corporate and athletic performers, including world and Olympic competitors. She and her husband raised their three children on a working apple orchard in Iowa.

For two decades, Dr. Mollie Marti has trained and coached elite performers in athletics and business to perform at their optimal level. Over time, her work has focused on motivation and peak performance, resilience, success factors, servant leadership, decision making, and ethics.

The National Resilience Institute (NRI) uses trauma-informed research to support those dedicated to growing resilience in their community. The Institute has provided training and consulting to help communities recover from natural disasters, mass casualties, suicide clusters and other disruptions. In 2019, NRI officially became Worldmaker International, with a mission to help individuals and communities build their capacity to prepare for, adapt to, and grow through adversity.

Research interests: Community resilience, trauma-informed resilience, human motivation, peak performance, military family transitions, and crisis preparedness and recovery.