Bounce Forward

(Froma Walsh)

Walsh's corrective to the dominant metaphor of resilience as recovery — the idea that resilience means returning to a prior state. To bounce forward is to emerge from adversity into something stronger, more resourceful, more adaptive than what existed before. I adopt this framing throughout my work because it captures what I observe in genuinely resilient organisations: they do not simply survive disruption, they are changed by it in ways that increase their capacity to meet future challenges. The direction of the movement matters.