Andrew Zolli is a futurist and foresight and global trends consultant. His firm is called Z Plus Partners and he is also a Strategic Advisor with PopTech, a global community of innovators working to increase the interdisciplinary nature and pace of innovation, especially around the world’s greatest challenges. He is the author of Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back. Mr. Zolli has been honored with inclusion in the Fast Company Fast 50, as well as Red Herring’s Top 20 Under 35. He is a fellow of the National Geographic Society, a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and holds many other positions and honors. He studies and analyzes the most critical trends at the intersection of culture, technology, and global society.

Zolli offered insight into the value of resilient response to innovators – we hear often that the ability to fail fast is critical for successful innovators and innovative organizations, but equally necessary is the ability to bounce back from failure. Zolli points to improvisation as a key ingredient to resilience, and said resilient organizations have developed capacities to anticipate, reflect on, and quickly learn from failure.