Ashley Good helps people show up as their wisest selves at their worst moments. She founded Fail Forward, the world’s first failure consultancy, in 2011 and since then has supported hundreds of organizations worldwide to acknowledge, create, and evolve from failure. A winner of the Harvard Business Review and McKinsey Innovating Innovation Challenge, Fail Forward helps businesses, governments and nonprofits harness their failures to learn, innovate and build resilience. Before becoming a full-time failure, Ashley worked in Cairo with the United Nations Environment Programme, as a management consultant in Vancouver, and as head of organizational learning for Engineers without Borders Canada.
Sessions in which Ashley Good participates
Thursday 11 June, 2026
Healthcare providers enter this profession to heal—to help people move forward, regain function, and reclaim their lives. Yet in complex clinical systems, perfect outcomes are rarely possible, and client expectations don’t always align with what thebody, the mind, or the system can deliver. In these moments, it’s easy for providers to quietly absorb setbacks as personal failures, even when the true causes are systemic, structural, or simply human.Therefore, this session offers a d...