Resilience Dividend

Judith Rodin is president of the Rockefeller Foundation, a highly influential philanthropic organisation that works globally to build greater resilience and more inclusive economies. As President of the University of Pennsylvania she was the first woman to lead an Ivy League institution. She is a research psychologist by training and serves on the boards of corporations and non-profit institutions.

This timely and insightful book, reminds us that we urgently need to build greater resilience to enable individuals, businesses, and communities to prepare for systemic disruptions and new opportunities in the world order. -- Kofi Annan With heartbreaking stories and practical examples, Judith Rodin makes a timely and much needed contribution for creating a better world in an increasingly volatile environment. -- Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever Positive, pragmatic, and powerful, The Resilience Dividend is precisely the innovative thinking we need. By focusing on the ways individuals, businesses, and communities can build a foundation for resilience, Rodin gives us a blueprint for a future where we are stronger, more adaptable, and better equipped to meet the world's greatest challenges. -- Arianna Huffington This book makes a compelling case, drawing on stories from countries and communities across the world, that resilience is not just a defense mechanism but a positive gain or dividend, with added value in economic and social terms. The message is timely, given the increasingly disruptive force of climate change and the need to encourage communities to respond positively. It is also a highly readable account because it relies on actual human experience. -- Mary Robinson, president of the Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice, and UN Special Envoy on Climate Change Judith Rodin is a world-class entrepreneurial philanthropist. In The Resilience Dividend, she brings her life's work to bear on the subject, drawing on her deep and personal experiences from around the world. She uses every tool available (including the world's most advanced technologies) to understand the urban terrain and to deploy real-world solutions. All with the goal of saving and improving human lives. -- Dr Alex Karp, cofounder and CEO, Palantir The Resilience Dividend delivers powerful proof that building resilience helps individuals, communities, and cities better recover from disasters and disruptions. Judith Rodin details connections between human, environmental, and economic systems, and offers a strategy to proactively address the threats they face. This very important book will help tackle complex challenges today and well into the future. -- Mark R. Tercek, president and CEO, The Nature Conservancy, and author of Nature's Fortune Rodin writes in an expert and straightforward manner about the character trait of resilience, addressed here in socioeconomic terms and on nothing less than a global scale ... While every author may hope to end a book with an indelible sentence, Rodin proves herself one of the select few who can pull this off. Publisher's Weekly An insightful look at what is known as the resilience dividend -- Vanessa Bush Booklist A revealing examination of the anatomy of resilience, the capacity to withstand and emerge stronger from acute shocks and chronic stresses ... A convincing argument that becoming resilient is not only possible, but essential; food for thought for all and especially recommended for community leaders. Kirkus Ms. Rodin is a good story teller, and her stories from the United States and around the world form the heart of the book ... Crisis planners will find useful material in The Resilience Dividend, not just a "template for thinking" about crisis management but also, as Ms. Rodin puts it, the "methods for putting that thinking into practice." The rest of us will take heart that, in a world of disruption, there are ways to cope with crisis and even, perhaps, grow stronger as a result. -- Melanie Kirkpatrick Wall Street Journal A tour de force of why and how resilience matters in different countries, industries and settings ... Judith Rodin's book will prove to be essential reading to leaders across sectors that are addressing the complexity of challenges facing humanity Alliance Magazine