Routledge Gloom to Boom: How Leaders Transform Risk into Resilience and Value

Leaders – whether in business, government or the nonprofit sector – take risks but often without fully understanding risk at a strategic level. Expanding upon the well-known "ESG" risks, this book explains the key nonfinancial (environmental, social, governance and technological or ESGT) risks. For many leaders (including board members), taking risk without knowledge or preparation can lead to organizational crisis, scandal and value destruction. For those who are prepared, resilience follows and so does the ability to transform ESGT risk into opportunity and value for stakeholders. In this book, global governance, risk, ethics and cyber strategist, author and board member, Andrea Bonime-Blanc, shows practitioners at all levels how to effectively identify and manage their top ESGT risks to avoid crises and transform risk into sustainable long-term resilience and value. Gloom to Boom is a book for everyone – from the highest levels of leadership in an organization (the board, CEO and C-suite), to other senior leaders (the chief risk officer, CFO, general counsel, head of CSR and sustainability, CISO, CHRO), and midlevel leaders, students and folks simply interested in current affairs and the role and impact of strategic risk and opportunity on their lives. Review "Dr. Bonime-Blanc provides a practical guide for leaders on strategic environmental, social, governance and technological issues, risks and opportunities. In a world of turbulence and chaos, she arms executives with a positive and actionable roadmap to resilience and value protection and creation." ANGEL ALLOZA, CEO, CORPORATE EXCELLENCE - CENTRE FOR REPUTATION LEADERSHIP, SPAIN. "Dr. Bonime-Blanc has always been a step ahead of emerging risk, shining a light on the key integrity and compliance problems and offering straightforward solutions to our global community. She proves that effective, ethical leadership is grounded in a firm awareness of what can go wrong, combined with the moral courage to step up and fight. This book provides historical context and a call to action filled with cautious optimism." AMII BARNARD-BAHN, EXECUTIVE COACH, FELLOW – HARVARD INSTITUTE OF COACHING; FORMER CHIEF COMPLIANCE & ETHICS OFFICER, MCKESSON US PHARMA, USA. "A book as impressive in its breadth of content as its optimism, Bonime-Blanc offers compelling analysis of the most pressing issues of the day, pairing them with concrete strategies that a wide variety of organizations are capable of adopting. For those in the field, a book not to be missed." IAN BREMMER, PRESIDENT, EURASIA GROUP. USA. "Bonime-Blanc's Gloom to Bloom is an impressive Tour de Force, a timely and useful guide to our turbulent times and practical ways for organizations and leaders to build resilience and transform risk into value. Ambitious in scope, intellectually rigorous, and practical in application, her book plows new ground in ethics, compliance and risk management, taking us on a journey from today's disruptive megatrends to our resistance and inability to adapt to them -- and a reconciliation of these opposing forces at a higher level of meaning, purpose and action. An impressive achievement!" EARNIE BROUGHTON, SENIOR ADVISOR, ETHICS & COMPLIANCE INITIATIVE, USA. "Dr. Bonime-Blanc takes us on a virtual roller coaster ride, first pinning us down in the tight turns of the "10 megatrends of our turbulent times", then lifting us up the steep slopes with a leadership integrity blueprint, then dropping us into an inversion exploring the dark corners of environmental, societal, governance and technological realities, and finally concluding with a master class of optimism on how to achieve organizational resilience and value. In her inimitable and practical style, Dr. Bonime-Blanc proves that it really is possible to turn risk into value." JACQUELINE E. BREVARD, CHIEF ETHICS & COMPLIANCE OFFICER, MERCK & CO., INC. (RETIRED). USA "‘Gloom to Boom’ is an enlightening work o