Building Resilience as a Skill – Helping Companies and Employees to Overcome Stress and Disengagement

Chris Tamdjidi

Chris Tamdjidi started his career as a Physicist, before changing direction into the world of business and management consulting in Europe and Asia.  His lifelong interest in mindfulness and the sciences of the mind matured – and he co-founded Awaris, a company active in 15 countries helping people cultivate resilience, collaborative mindset and balancing care and performance.  Awaris helps companies to pilot and rollout large scale programs to transform minds and heart.  He has worked extensively with Firstbeat Assessments and uses them in his work on building resilience.   

Tiina Hoffman, Firstbeat

Tiina is an Exercise Physiologist who works at Firstbeat as a Wellness Specialist. Growing up as a skier, Tiina spent 4 years cross-country ski racing and later 4 year coaching at the University of Alaska, Anchorage.

After moving back to Finland, she found her way to Firstbeat after several years in overtraining and heart rate variability field studies at the Research Institute for Olympic Sports and the University of Jyväskylä. To maintain a good balance in her own life, she enjoys the outdoors – kayaking, hiking, xc-skiing and escaping to her cabin in the woods.