Thought leaders President of Women in Africa and Nigerian Human Rights Activist, Hafsat Abiola; Harvard social scientist professor, Arthur Brooks; Bishop of Oxford, Rt Revd Dr. Steven Croft; University of Pennsylvania Character Lab’s founder and CEO, Angela Duckworth; President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, The Honorable Shirley Ann Jackson; AGRA President and UN Special Envoy, Agnes Kalibata; internationally acclaimed musician and advocate of American culture, Wynton Marsalis; and Yale University cognitive scientist, Laurie Santos share how grit, the ups and downs of life, and post-traumatic growth impact our capacity to flourish.