Resilience When You Can’t Reduce the Stress
What works when the season of life won’t calm down.
With Subject Matter Experts
Kellie Mix, Executive Coach, Project Manager, Certified Burnout Expert, Sixth Wing
John Previtera, Executive Coach, Facilitator, Certified Burnout Expert, Sixth Wing
Much of the advice around resilience assumes you can change your circumstances. Get more sleep. Say no. Reduce commitments. Build in more recovery.
But there are seasons when those options aren’t available.
A new baby. Caring for a parent. A demanding leadership role. Financial pressure. An intense professional stretch. The load is real, and it’s not something you can step away from right now.
In this conversation, Kellie Mix and John Previtera will explore what resilience looks like when the stressor isn’t optional. Not how to eliminate pressure, but how to remain steady while it exists.
We’ll explore two distinctions that matter during chronic load seasons: relaxers versus stabilizers, and carrying versus solving. Not everything that restores you looks like rest, and not every pressure is meant to be fixed. Sometimes resilience is about restoring agency. Sometimes it’s about learning what needs to be carried.
This is not a webinar. It’s a facilitated, interactive conversation grounded in lived experience, psychology, and the realities of leadership. There will be space to reflect, to contribute, and to consider how these patterns show up in your own life and leadership.
If you’re navigating a season that feels heavy but non-negotiable, we invite you to join us. Come ready to think, to share if you’d like, and to leave with a clearer sense of what stability can look like even when the pressure remains.
Resilience When You Can’t Reduce the Stress
What works when the season of life won’t calm down.
April 16, 2026
Kellie Mix
Executive Coach, Project Manager, Certified Burnout Expert, Sixth Wing
Kellie Mix is an executive coach specializing in leadership for individual and organizational well-being. Her experiences in the military, athletic domain, and corporate America contribute to her skills in developing, leading and managing teams through periods of acute and gradual change.
After retiring from the sport of swimming and graduating from the US Naval Academy, Kellie served as a Logistics Officer in the U.S. Marine Corps . While serving on active duty, she traveled the Southeast Asia-Pacific conducting theater security cooperation exercises and managed the Marine Corps' Physical Fitness Programs at the Marine Corps' Training and Education Command.
Throughout her military career, Kellie continued her athletic pursuits and competed on the All-Marine Triathlon team and the U.S. Armed Forces Swim Team, representing the United States of America at the World Military Games.
After separating from active duty, Kellie worked as a change management consultant at Deloitte. While at Deloitte, she helped organizations identify their current state, desired future state, and determine the gaps in between.
Kellie's coaching approach combines her leadership lessons from athletics, military service, and consulting to bring a unique perspective to her Sixth Wing clients. Kellie completed post-graduate education in executive coaching from George Mason's Center for Advanced Well-Being.
John Previtera
Executive Coach, Facilitator, Certified Burnout Expert, Sixth Wing
John holds a bachelor’s degree in Organizational Leadership & Development and when he is not helping leaders and companies thrive, his passion is breeding and training Labrador Retrievers to be service dogs for wounded warriors with PTSD and children with autism. He lives in the woods of southern Oregon with his Wife and son and enjoys spending time on the Rogue River.
John is a Navy SEAL veteran with over 28 years on active duty at various SEAL Teams and Naval Special Warfare commands. While on active-duty John deployed to Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, the Philippines, among other short and long term deployments to various other locations in support of U.S. Foreign Policy.
Following his time in the SEAL Teams, John was recruited by the McChrystal Group, a small elite leadership consulting firm founded by General Stanley McChrystal. The McChrystal Group took the lessons learned by the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and created a leadership methodology consistent with how elite special operations forces lead and execute on today’s technologically enhanced and everchanging modern battlefield. During this time, John was fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with various companies across numerous industries while learning the important areas of overlap between his diverse military skills and the skills necessary to succeed and thrive in the business environment.
John is an articulate, dynamic, and engaging public speaker with a natural story telling ability. His authentic delivery of content, insights, and perspective allows him to build trust with business leaders that leads to impactful discussions and insightful alternatives to how leadership techniques and teamwork can be accomplished in today’s dynamic, globally connected, and technologically advanced business ecosystem.
