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András Tilcsik
András Tilcsik helps organizations prevent system failures and build resilience against catastrophic breakdowns. He works with executives and teams on risk management, operational safety, and crisis prevention, delivering insights recognized by the United Nations and awarded the National Business Book Award.
András Tilcsik helps organizations understand why modern systems fail and how to prevent catastrophic breakdowns before they happen. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Strategy, Organizations, and Society at the Rotman School of Management and co-authored Meltdown, which won the National Business Book Award and was named a Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year. The United Nations recognized his course on disaster risk management as the best of its kind in any business school. András draws on research spanning nuclear energy, aerospace, finance, and social media to show how increasing complexity makes systems vulnerable to cascading failures. His work, cited to committees of the U.S. Congress and covered in The New York Times, The Economist, and The New Yorker, translates into concrete strategies that corporations and governments use to identify hidden risks and build safer operations. Audiences leave his sessions with a clearer understanding of why small errors spiral into large disasters, a framework for spotting vulnerability in their own organizations, and proven techniques for designing systems that absorb shocks rather than amplify them. His insights apply equally to executives managing global operations and teams navigating everyday complexity. Book András Tilcsik to give your audience a practical, research-backed playbook for preventing the next crisis.
András brings the Canada Research Chair perspective and UN-recognized disaster risk frameworks to help leadership teams identify hidden vulnerabilities in complex operations before small errors cascade into major failures. His work spans nuclear, aerospace, and finance sectors, translating into concrete strategies that spot systemic risks early and build resilience into day-to-day decision-making.
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András Tilcsik draws on cross-industry research spanning nuclear energy, aerospace, finance, and social media to build a framework that explains how complexity generates cascading failures, translating findings into concrete risk-identification and system-design strategies for organisations.
András Tilcsik specialises in complex system failure, organisational risk, and catastrophic breakdown prevention, drawing on research across nuclear energy, aerospace, finance, and social media. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Strategy, Organizations, and Society at the Rotman School of Management and co-authored Meltdown, which won the National Business Book Award and was named a Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year.
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