About Us

Michael is an inspirational speaker, nationally recognized nonprofit leader, and a long-time advocate for children. He was the national CEO of the nation’s largest volunteer child advocacy organization, a position he left after 21 years to pursue new approaches to using contemporary science to help individuals and organizations better manage change, reduce stress, and achieve their goals. After three years of research and development, he founded Resilience for Success to make these new techniques easily available. Piraino is a Certified Resilience Coach and Mindfulness Trainer, and holds a law degree from Cornell University.

Michael’s resilience development work includes four elements:

1. PR6 Resilience Assessment: a peer-reviewed holistic psychometric resilience assessment tool.
2. Driven Resilience Training: innovative online resilience training through AI-powered virtual coaching.
3. Mindfulness X training, an 8 week science-based mindfulness program
4. Restorative Practices, (www.iirp.edu), which aims to help individuals and organizations proactively develop community, manage conflict, build relationships and increase social capital. These practices are based on the premise that “people are happier, more cooperative, more productive and more likely to make positive changes when those in authority do things with them, rather than to them or for them.”

The PR6 and Driven systems and the Certified Resilience Coach training, were developed and are owned by RForce Pty Ltd.