Megan Shen is a social psychologist, researcher, author, and speaker devoted to helping individuals, teams, and organizations find hope, resilience, and meaning amidst the many challenges they face in life. As the famous poet Rumi once said, “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” In her over decades-long program of research working to help patients with advanced and life limiting illness, she has found this to be true. Our greatest places of struggle, challenge, and pain are often where we can find the most hope, resilience, and meaning in life.

By applying scientific frameworks of grief and resilience, Megan brings a new and fresh lens to the topic of how to thrive in and through any circumstance. She provides actionable, real-life strategies to help individuals discover a more hopeful and meaningful version of their lives despite, and perhaps because of, their many present struggles.