WHAT IS RESILIENCE? Resilience At Work: A History In the 1970s and 80’s, workplace researchers started to look at why some people responded to challenges and difficult situations more effectively than others. In the late 80’s, Dr. Martin Seligman (also known as ‘the father of positive psychology’) became interested in how this research could be applied to employees facing difficult situations at work. He was approached by Metropolitan Life to help them identify which salespeople would be more successful at facing the high levels of rejection that went hand in hand with the job, and who would be able to bounce back from these setbacks.

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