Aon, the global insurance and reinsurance broking group, has released insights from its new, data-driven tool to help organisations build sustainable resilience and promote growth, called Aon’s Resilience Quotient, which has been developed in collaboration with Gallup, an American multinational analytics and advisory company.
The broker explains that its Resilience Quotient combines public sentiment on global issues with risk and people data and analytics, for clearer and confident investments and growth amid uncertainty and volatility.
It integrates Aon’s proprietary Risk Capital and Human Capital analytics with the results of Gallup’s World Poll covering 140 countries for over two decades. By capturing both objective conditions and subjective sentiment, it highlights where sentiment signals hidden risks and potential opportunities to achieve greater resilience.
New insights from Aon’s Resilience Quotient suggest that, in the future, resilience priorities will shift from static risk management to dynamic, localised strategies. As disruptions become more complex and frequent, organisations will need to tailor resilience investments to specific geographies, sectors and even sub-regional contexts, says the broker.
Aon’s tool is supported by a real-time analytics and AI-enabled insights platform, built by Quantum Rise, providing deeper visibility into evolving risk and resilience signals as conditions change.
Additionally, Aon and Gallup will join global decision-makers at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting to advance these critical discussions on restoring confidence and driving sustainable growth.
According to the pair, trade, technology, weather, and workforce are reshaping the global operating environment in ways that traditional models struggle to anticipate. In response, the new tool provides a clearer view of the tradeoffs within these interactions: how trade volatility can amplify technology risk, how climate pressures influence workforce mobility and how sentiment can either reinforce resilience or heighten operational risk, even when the fundamentals appear strong.
Greg Case, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Aon, commented, “When making decisions around investment, workforce or managing geopolitical risk, a portfolio view is far superior to a siloed perspective. Understanding sentiment can be an opportunity signal or an early warning. Leaders who are limited to only some of the relevant metrics risk missing the signals that matter most. Aon’s Resilience Quotient delivers an integrated view to help organisations act decisively, strengthen resilience and unlock sustainable growth.”
Joe Daly, Managing Partner, Gallup, added, “Resilience is not a single blueprint, it’s the way systems mitigate, adapt and transform under pressure. Aon’s Resilience Quotient functions as a pressure gauge, surfacing the trade‑offs and early signals that help leaders strengthen resilience where it matters most. We’re proud to collaborate with Aon to combine Gallup’s global sentiment analytics with Aon’s Risk Capital and Human Capital data, turning confidence into actionable insight.”
Resilience Quotient was used to publish three case studies addressing some of the most relevant and urgent issues facing the 2026 global economy.
As data centres are the backbone of the digital economy, with nearly $1.3 trillion projected to be invested globally by 2030, their rapid expansion brings unprecedented risks. Aon’s Resilience Quotient shows that resilience varies sharply at the sub-national level, often more than underlying risk. Within the US, Iowa emerges as the most resilient destination for data centre development, combining very low overall risk with exceptionally strong trade and weather resilience.
Joe Peiser, CEO, Commercial Risk Solutions, Aon, added, “Aon’s Resilience Quotient shows that Iowa’s resilience–risk balance is roughly twice the national median, demonstrating how governance quality, institutional confidence and preparedness materially shape long-term infrastructure outcomes. This underscores the opportunity for leaders who understand the combined effect of low risk, resilient trade and weather systems and a strong foundation of public trust — factors that ultimately determine where AI infrastructure can grow at scale.”
The tool was used to further highlight how workforce engagement, trust and institutional preparedness are essential to harnessing AI’s potential, making resilience the key differentiator between organisations that thrive through change and those that risk falling behind.
Lisa Stevens, Chief Administrative Officer, Aon, said, “Aon’s Resilience Quotient equips leaders to navigate rapid AI change with confidence. These insights help create the conditions for early‑career employees to build the skills and confidence they need — so instead of losing a generation of talent, we cultivate one that is more capable and resilient than ever.”
Currently, over 120 million people are displaced by conflict, climate and systemic crises. Aon’s Resilience Quotient highlights Venezuela and Colombia to illustrate the tradeoffs between investing resources at the source of migration, supporting those facing institutional erosion, food insecurity, and economic collapse or directing investment to more stable countries like Colombia that are absorbing people fleeing unlivable conditions.
Bridget Gainer, Chief Public Affairs Officer, Aon, stated, “Forced displacement results from extreme weather and man-made disasters like conflict and economic failure. If we could leverage the forecasting and financial capability of insurance to better predict and more quickly mitigate the impact of this volatility, we could help create conditions that allow populations to remain and rebuild in their home countries.”
