Global insurance and reinsurance broking group Aon has released insights from its new data-driven tool designed to help organizations build sustainable resilience and drive growth, called the Aon Resilience Quotient, which was developed in partnership with US multinational analytics and consulting firm Gallup.
The broker explains that its Resilience Quotient combines public sentiment on global issues with risk and people data and analytics to enable greater clarity and confidence in investing and growth amid uncertainty and volatility.
It combines Aon’s proprietary venture capital and human capital analysis with more than two decades of Gallup’s world polling results covering 140 countries. By capturing both objective conditions and subjective emotions, it can highlight where emotions signal hidden risks and potential opportunities for greater resilience.
New insights from Aon’s Resilience Quotient suggest that future resilience priorities will shift from static risk management to dynamic, localized strategies. As disruptions become more complex and frequent, organizations will need to tailor resilience investments to specific geographies, industries and even sub-regional environments, the broker said.
Aon’s tools are powered by a real-time analytics and AI insights platform built by Quantum Rise, which provides a deeper understanding of risk and resiliency signals that change as conditions change.
In addition, Aon and Gallup will join global decision-makers at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting to drive important discussions about restoring confidence and driving sustainable growth.
Trade, technology, weather and labor are reshaping the global operating environment in ways that are difficult to predict using traditional models, the pair said. In response, new tools provide a clearer view of the trade-offs in these interactions: how trade fluctuations amplify technology risks, how climate stress affects labor mobility, and how sentiment can bolster resilience or raise operational risks even when fundamentals appear strong.
Greg Case, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Aon, commented: “When making decisions around investment, workforce, or managing geopolitical risk, a portfolio view is far superior to a siled perspective. Understanding sentiment can be a signal or early warning of opportunity. Leaders who limit themselves to certain relevant metrics may miss the most important signals. Aon’s Resilience Quotient provides a comprehensive view that helps organizations act decisively, build resilience and achieve sustainable growth.”
Joe Daly, managing partner at Gallup, added: “Resilience is not a single blueprint, but the way systems mitigate, adapt and transform under stress. Aon’s Resilience Quotient acts as a stress gauge, revealing trade-offs and early signals to help leaders build resilience where it matters most. We are proud to partner with Aon to combine Gallup’s global sentiment analysis with Aon’s venture capital and human capital data to turn confidence into actionable insights.”
Resilience Quotient is used to publish three case studies that address some of the most relevant and pressing issues facing the global economy in 2026.
Since data centers are the backbone of the digital economy, with global investment expected to approach US$1.3 trillion by 2030, their rapid expansion has brought unprecedented risks. Aon’s Resilience Quotient shows that resilience at local levels varies widely, often outweighing potential risks. Iowa emerges as the most resilient destination for data center development in the United States, combining extremely low overall risk with unusually strong trade and weather resilience.
Joe Peiser, CEO of Aon Business Risk Solutions, added: “Aon’s Resilience Quotient shows Iowa’s balance of resilience and risk is approximately twice the national median, demonstrating how the quality of governance, institutional confidence and preparedness can have a significant impact on long-term infrastructure outcomes. This highlights the opportunity for leaders who understand the combined impact of low-risk, resilient trade and weather systems and a strong foundation of public trust that ultimately determine whether AI infrastructure can develop at scale.”
This tool serves to further highlight that workforce engagement, trust and institutional readiness are critical to harnessing the potential of AI, making resilience a key differentiator between organizations that thrive through change and those that risk falling behind.
“Aon’s Resilience Quotient empowers leaders to navigate the rapid changes in artificial intelligence with confidence,” said Lisa Stevens, CEO of Aon. “These insights help create the conditions for employees early in their careers to build the skills and confidence they need – so we don’t lose a generation of talent, but develop talent that is more capable and resilient than ever before.”
Currently, more than 120 million people are displaced by conflict, climate and systemic crises. Aon’s Resilience Quotient highlights Venezuela and Colombia to illustrate the trade-offs between investing resources at the source of migration and supporting those facing institutional erosion, food insecurity and economic collapse, or directing investment to more stable countries such as Colombia that are absorbing people fleeing unlivable conditions.
Bridget Gaynor, chief public affairs officer at Aon, said: “Forced displacement is caused by extreme weather and man-made disasters such as conflict and economic failure. If we can use the predictive and financial power of insurance to better predict and mitigate the impact of such fluctuations more quickly, we can help create the conditions that allow people to stay and rebuild in their home countries.”
