Slightly over one-and-half-years ago, the US was the hotbed of the Covid-19 pandemic, grappling with runaway infection rates and daily record deaths, a situation that saw the country drop plans of hosting the G7 summit in 2020. Fast forward after a general election and tense succession politics in Washington, the US is now coming out as the global model on how to fight and emerge from a double whammy of global health and economic crisis. In her speech to the institution of surveyors of Kenya, the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) Chief Executive Carole Kariuki said it takes transformative leadership to show resilience amid crisis.