The story of the Canada women's national ice hockey team at the 2026 Winter Olympics is a powerful reminder that resilience is not built in victory – it’s forged in adversity. After a difficult 5–0 loss to the United States earlier in the tournament, many observers questioned whether Canada could regroup in time to contend for gold. Instead of unraveling, the team recalibrated.

They reviewed performance data, strengthened communication on and off the ice, and leaned into their leadership core. Veterans steadied the locker room, coaches adjusted strategy, and younger players embraced defined roles. Shift by shift, the team rebuilt confidence, ultimately fighting their way back to the gold medal game and coming within reach of the top podium. Their journey demonstrated that resilience is not a single dramatic comeback – it’s a series of disciplined adjustments, aligned leadership, and collective belief.

This same pattern applies directly to business. Organizations often face their own “5–0 losses”: missed targets, market disruptions, leadership turnover, or stalled transformation initiatives. What separates high-performing companies from struggling ones is not the absence of setbacks, but the ability to respond constructively. Effective leaders create clarity after disappointment, reinforce shared purpose, and ensure teams understand both the strategy and their role in executing it.

That’s where IncrementOne focuses its work. By working with leaders and teams, we help you build a shared organizational vision and an organizational structure optimized to deliver value while harnessing team growth, productivity and effectiveness. IncrementOne helps companies turn setbacks into structured learning moments. By strengthening decision-making frameworks, improving leadership alignment, and building resilient operating models, we enable organizations to respond to challenges the way elite teams do: with focus, accountability, and adaptability.

Just like Canada’s Olympic run showed, resilience isn’t about avoiding losses. It’s about what happens next. In sport and in business, the teams that pause, learn, realign, and move forward together are the ones that come closest to gold – and achieve lasting success beyond a single competition.