Jessica Morgenthal is founder and director of Resilience Gone Wild and host and creator of the award-winning Resilience Gone Wild podcast, recognized as 2024 Podcast of the Year and Best Science Podcast by DiscoverPods.

Her career spans business strategy, science communication, corporate identity consulting, nonprofit leadership, behavior change, coaching, and resilience training. Jessica holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where she focused on strategy, and a master’s degree from Harvard, where she studied the societal impact of religion and social justice. She holds numerous certifications in resilience, positive psychology, life coaching, and systemic team coaching.

She began her career in futurist roles at NCR/AT&T, exploring how technology connects business and human behavior. She then moved into strategic identity consulting, including a formative project helping Cargill reimagine the identity of its agricultural business — an experience that deepened her interest in the relationship between people, systems, and the natural world.

Jessica left the corporate world to raise her family and contribute to community wellbeing. She held leadership roles in several local and Jewish organizations, helping each to deliver on its mission and strengthen community impact, and founded Golden Rule Mindset, where she taught behavior change workshops.

Early in the pandemic, in the fall of 2020, Jessica and her husband relocated to Singer Island, Florida. There, she deepened her positive psychology and resilience training, took her workshops online, wrote newsletters and blogs, and ran Retreats on the Beach.

An encounter with a nesting sea turtle became the spark for volunteer work at Loggerhead Marinelife Center and the creation of Resilience Gone Wild. Starting as a newsletter, blog, and podcast, RGW is now growing into a platform that includes podcast partnerships for municipalities, companies, and purpose-driven organizations; community workshops; children’s books; games; curriculum; and more.

Jessica now divides her time between Singer Island, Florida, and Stamford, Connecticut, with her husband, staying closely connected to their grown children. Her work continues to focus on shifting from a “me-me-me” mindset to a Win-Win-Win mindset — a way of living that supports personal well-being, strengthens communities, and protects the ecosystems we all depend on.