Dr. Khalil Dindarian

Inspiring trust to enhance Organisational Resilience

I have been an engineering professional and leader at Siemens since 1996. During this time, I gained a wealth of experience in leading and executing complex portfolios, covering business development & strategy, sales, and project execution.

I am an expert in both the theory and practice of a range of critical areas: strategy, organizational resilience, business agility, complexity, project management, and risk & uncertainty management. The implementation of transformation and change is something I am passionate about, always with a strong focus on customer excellence.

I combined my extensive experience and my deep knowledge of geopolitics and macroeconomics to earn a Ph.D. (University of Manchester, UK) in developing resilience against emerging risks and adverse events. The result shows how a framework for resilience can be created to help modern organizations build sustainability in order to not just survive in the face of major unexpected crisis, but to thrive.

Our world is becoming ever more complex. Among the geopolitical and macroeconomic issues currently facing mankind, with serious ramifications for our future, are digitalization and technology, climate change, and globalization. Political upheaval, wars, natural disasters, economic recessions, and pandemics have all had massive negative impacts on our society. In this new world, various government and organizational decisionmakers – including managers, international agencies, NGOs, political leaders, economists, science & technology innovators, and medical professionals – must all learn to anticipate and deal with these emergent risks, the integration of which, along with the management of ‘Black Swan’ events, has assumed paramount importance. This is the huge challenge now facing us.

This book, aimed at both academics and practitioners, shows how a framework for resilience can be created to help modern organizations build sustainability in order to not just survive but to thrive. The author considers some of the organizations and bodies that can be said to be highly resilient and examines how ‘resilience thinking’ affects different disciplines and environments. He addresses the question of how resilience works and how it is applied in practice.

The relationship between resilience and other knowledge areas such as complexity theory, strategy, and risk management – from both the top-down and bottom-up perspectives – is examined. Situations are identified where there is a particular need for resilience, and an overview of the best ways of implementing a resilience process is offered.

© Dr. Khalil Dindarian 2023

Disclaimer: All views and opinions expressed herein are entirely my own as the author of this work, unless expressly stated to be otherwise, and they in no way represent any of the organisation or enterprises or publishers with which I am affiliated or with which I have any professional connection.