Positive Resilience | Author | CEO of Resilt
Michel Scholte is an impact entrepreneur, speaker, author, and full-time CEO of Resilt. He helps organisations and leaders navigate uncertainty with positive resilience. His premise: positive resilience is the strategy of our time.
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Michel Scholte is an impact entrepreneur, speaker, author, and full-time CEO of Resilt. He helps organisations and leaders navigate uncertainty with positive resilience. His premise: positive resilience is the strategy of today.
Positive resilience goes beyond absorbing shocks. Those who only protect themselves by stockpiling supplies, offloading risks, or putting further pressure on supply chains may become self-reliant, but they make the world less stable. Positive resilience means understanding your dependencies, reducing your vulnerabilities, and simultaneously contributing positively to your environment. This way, you become not only self-reliant but also collectively resilient. For this, Michel developed the Resilience Compass: an approach that allows every organisation to protect what is dear by continuously identifying, signalling, alarming, fortifying, and evolving. His book on this subject will be published in spring 2027 by Atlas Contact.
With Resilt, he is building a data and software platform that provides households and organisations with control over their dependencies, from water to Wi-Fi, and protects them against disruption: from Resource to Wesource.
Previously, in 2012, Michel co-founded True Price with Adrian de Groot Ruiz, an organisation that calculates the true price of products, including social and environmental costs. This was followed by the Impact Institute in 2018, where he, as CCO, was responsible for the AI-driven software Impatec, used by impact investors such as Invest-NL and ABN AMRO SIF. He is now non-executively involved with both organisations. He is also a co-founder of the Impact Economy Foundation and was elected Minister of the New Economy by MVO Nederland in January 2021.
Michel has worked with organisations such as Albert Heijn, ABN AMRO, and the United Nations. He sits on the Advisory Board of Albert Heijn, the UvA MBA Honours Program, and Seven Gen Impact Investing, is an Alumnus Ambassador of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, ambassador of the School for Moral Ambition, and a founding member of Network 2100. He studied Sociology (MSc) at VU, specialising in social research and agent-based modelling of complex systems, is an alumnus of the Global Shapers network of the World Economic Forum, and a member of the think tank Worldconnectors.
As a speaker, Michel takes the stage at national and international forums, including the Climate Change Summit in Bucharest, Food Drinks Europe, CSRD Day, and the National Resilience Congress. With a background in theatre and debate, he presents complex issues in a thought-provoking manner, always providing practical insights. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Bloomberg, TIME, Forbes, BNR, and FD.
Michel is available for lectures, keynotes, and workshops at companies, governments, financial institutions, educational institutions, and NGOs, in both Dutch and English. His main theme is positive resilience, based on the Resilience Compass.
Additionally, he speaks on true pricing, CSRD and value chains, AI and impact data, broad prosperity and leadership, and the new economy. Upon request, he prepares a session with a tailored analysis, such as an initial exploration with the Resilience Compass, a True Price assessment, or a double materiality scan.
To navigate uncertainty, every organisation needs a Resilience Compass. For self and collective resilience.
From geopolitical tensions and hybrid threats to climate risks, cyberattacks, and disruptions in vital infrastructure: uncertainty is the new normal. Michel demonstrates why self-reliance alone is not enough. Those who protect themselves at the expense of others make the system they depend on more vulnerable. Positive resilience turns this around: you understand your dependencies, protect what is dear to you, and contribute positively to your environment, so you become collectively resilient and emerge stronger from change. The Resilience Compass provides a practical framework with five operations: identify, signal, alarm, fortify, and evolve. On request, with an initial exploration of the Resilience Compass for your own organisation.
The true cost of products, including social and environmental costs, is not a barrier but a source of innovation. Michel shares seven ways in which true pricing contributes to business value, with high-profile examples from B2B and B2C. Upon request, an initial True Price estimate based on Impact Intelligence (AI).
The EU sustainability regulations are much more than a reporting obligation. Michel demonstrates how supply chain transparency becomes a competitive advantage, with practical examples and knowledge of CSRD data and software. A double materiality scan can be prepared in advance upon request and included in the session.
How companies use AI and impact data to work more sustainably, measure societal impact, and make better decisions. Featuring examples from Tony’s Chocolonely, Ekoplaza, Odin, and Albert Heijn. An initial impact scan of a product, company, or portfolio available upon request.
Beyond the financial quarterly figures, steer towards true, sustainable value, balanced between people, environment, and economy. Featuring practical examples from Alliander, Gasunie, and ABN AMRO, along with concrete tools for leaders in the public and private sectors. Optionally extendable with an interactive workshop.
Michel’s vision for a future-proof economy, based on over ten years of experience with true pricing in the business world and his role as Minister of the New Economy (MVO Nederland, 2021).
As the initiator of the National Conference on Broad Prosperity, which has taken place annually since 2021, Michel has contributed to the nationwide movement to anchor human, social, and natural values within the boardrooms of public and private institutions. He offers a diverse and experienced range of contributions on this topic, from quick scans and workshops to inspirational lectures.
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