"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 of art with predictive insights where the author brilliantly weaves the fabric of modern corporate governance''s often-structured framework together with the entrepreneurial-resilient can-do spirit of successful, transformative corporate leaders. Confronting a fast-changing world full of possibilities and opportunities, ''Gloom to Boom'' expands the new horizon for corporate thought-leaders to confidently embrace the challenges ahead and thrive. The book is almost prophetic, visionary and compelling and should be a constant companion in the hands of transformative corporate leaders." PAUL W. CHAN, PRESIDENT, MALAYSIAN ALLIANCE OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS, IIRC AMBASSADOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATED REPORTING COUNCIL (UK), EXECUTIVE MEMBER OF THE GLOBAL NETWORK OF DIRECTOR INSTITUTES (GNDI). MALAYSIA. "Bonime-Blanc has written a revelatory book that is both practical and hopeful. She provides numerous tools for transforming global ESGT risk into sustainable value by building organizational resilience and a strong ethics culture.
Gloom to Boom is an invaluable resource: it should be read slowly and returned to often. We are truly fortunate that Bonime-Blanc''s ikigai is to share her strategy for transforming risk to value." DONNA COSTA, FORMER PRESIDENT, GENERAL COUNSEL AND CHIEF COMPLIANCE OFFICER OF MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL HOLDINGS AMERICA " Gloom to Bloom " is an extraordinary and comprehensive treatise regarding the chaos and disruption we are currently experiencing. Dr. Bonime-Blanc offers extremely practical solutions - indeed, a clarion call to action - to transform risk into resilience and action, while achieving value. This monumental undertaking has numerous, very current, and practical case study examples, making this book a real resource for practitioners. Each chapter draws upon significant sources and resources, adding to the value of this book as a truly useful reflection on how we can survive and thrive in today''s world." KEITH T.
DARCY, PRESIDENT, DARCY PARTNERS, FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ETHICS & COMPLIANCE OFFICER ASSOCIATION (ECOA), MEMBER OF THE FACULTY OF THE WHARTON SCHOOL, USA. "In Gloom to Boom , Dr. Bonime-Blanc, one of the most formidable minds on ethical leadership and corporate governance, lays out a powerful and practical case for how leaders can flip the script on risk, adverse market forces and disruption, while charting a course for long-term prosperity and ESG equilibrium. All too often books about risk and governance are cliffhangers. Heavy on the doom and gloom and light on practicality. Dr. Bonime-Blanc corrects this trend and pours her years of board, legal, ethical and governance experiences in this rich and essential work." DANTE ALIGHIERI DISPARTE, CHAIRMAN AND CEO, RISK COOPERATIVE.
WASHINGTON DC. USA. "Thank you, Andrea, for expending all your energy to write this book - it is a testimony to who you are as a person. While I find many business books to be a lot of air around a sometimes interesting single premise, Gloom to Boom is rich in content, wide-ranging, in touch with reality, grounded in facts, positive, on message, and tangible and actionable as a bonus! But most of all, I hear you speak your passion, commitment and conviction when I read the words - a deeply personal legacy which I''m sure will be a milestone contribution to a better world. You should be very proud of it. And I''m sure I''ll pull from your tour de force and refer to it in my speaking and teaching in the years ahead. Thank you so much and congratulations!" JOHN METSELAAR, P&G VETERAN (RETIRED), PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT PRACTICE "LEADING AND LIVING INNOVATION" AT THE SOLVAY BUSINESS SCHOOL IN BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, AND LEADER OF THE GLOBAL INNOVATION & DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION INSTITUTE AT THE CONFERENCE BOARD. "In my experience, there are two kinds of people who write about corporate risk: those who have actually operated many different kinds of businesses all over the world, and then a bunch of other people.
All of Dr. Bonime-Blanc''s years of global experience in enterprise c-suites are on full display in Gloom to Boom ''s novel approach vector. Lots of people might talk about the merits of turning risk into opportunity for stakeholders, but to actually show business leaders how and why to integrate integrity and resilience into the root fabric of their organizations. isn''t for beginners. Gloom to Boom is a masterfully researched elixir to a turbulent zeitgeist." ADAM J. EPSTEIN, FOUNDER, THIRD CREEK ADVISORS. USA.
"Bonime-Blanc''s new work should be required reading for every board member and governance professional seeking a timely, holistic understanding of the modern risk landscape. Her years of work on this topic shine through here. We live in a brave new world where technology, geopolitics, climate change and social/demographic shifts have upended traditional notions of industry, competition and risk. Corporate leaders seeking to understand how these forces impact ERM and, if understood, can provide a new strategic advantage, would be well served to read this book." ERIN ESSENMACHER, CHIEF PROGRAMMING OFFICER, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS, BOARD DIRECTOR, USA "In this impeccably researched book, Bonime-Blanc weaves together narratives of social and economic mega-trends confronting leaders today (the "gloom") with practical case studies to equip executives with ideas for creating a better future. She also offers great advice for what not to do. Passionately demonstrating that no institution today -- government, corporate, or civil society -- is immune from challenges to leadership, this work calls for a new paradigm to lead with integrity." AZISH FILABI, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ETHICAL SYSTEMS, ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, NYU STERN BUSINESS SCHOOL.
US. "In any organization or body politic, things are the way they are for a reason. When we see breaches of integrity, parochial thinking and worse, it''s usually not because no one has thought about a legal or more efficient, ethical, socially conscious, inclusive or otherwise better alternative. The reason is that leadership wants or allows it to be that way. This is a book for leaders who want to do it the right and successful way for an ever-increasing base of global stakeholders." KENNETH FRANKEL, PRESIDENT, CANADIAN COUNCIL FOR THE AMERICAS, FORMER LEGAL ADVISOR, ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES, ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, GHENT UNIVERSITY (BELGIUM) AND WESTERN UNIVERSITY (CANADA). CANADA, USA AND COLOMBIA. "Transforming risk into sustainable value has been Andrea''s "lionhearted" motto since her childhood - "Gloom to Boom" is her legacy.
In her fifth book, she gets to the quintessential nature of corporate values and behaviors - and corporate mis-values and misbehaviors. Hers is a call to arms (in her own words) to leaders. They should understand. and act. If leaders love their companies, they should also love their stakeholders. Deep, full of insight, comprehensive and essential to the everyday organizational life, this book is great - you should have it at your desktop, alway.