Gratitude is one of our most celebrated virtues - and rightly so. But emerging research is uncovering what many of us already feel: that gratitude can quietly become the very thing keeping us from living authentically. When gratitude turns into obligation - to a role, a relationship, an identity we've outgrown - it becomes a cage of our own making.

The Gratitude Problem gives professional women language for an experience they've been having but haven't been able to name: the quiet pull to stay grateful of what they have at the cost of being true to themselves.

The anger isn't being less grateful. It's having a more honest relationship with gratitude - one that lets us be Grateful AND True at the same time.

This webinar introduces a practical framework - GRATEFUL AND TRUE - and a three-question Gratitude Check attendees can use immediately to interrogate where gratitude may be running their lives in ways they haven't examined.

Meet the facilitator: Mal Wrenn Corbin!

Mal Wrenn Corbin is a keynote speaker, author, and TEDx speaker whose work helps individuals and organizations break through self-limiting beliefs and step into who they’re meant to be.

Born and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, Mal navigated poverty, neglect, and periods of homelessness before using her voice at 14 to ask for a foster home — the first of many brave decisions that would reshape her future. She went on to graduate from Dartmouth College, earn her M.Ed. from Boston College’s Lynch School of Education and Human Development, and build a nearly 30-year career as a financial services executive.

In 2024, she published her memoir Raising Wrenns — named Runner-Up for the Indie Author Project 2024 Memoir of the Year and earning a Kirkus Recommended review. Her TEDx talk, “The Gratitude Problem,” delivered at TEDxBostonCollege, challenges one of our most celebrated cultural assumptions and introduces a framework for living both grateful and true.

As someone who has lived in both survival mode and the corporate boardroom, Mal brings a rare perspective to audiences navigating change — in their careers, organizations, and sense of self