I have spent more than 30 years in agency life. I am a highly competitive person — and have been from the start of my career. And while my competitive spirit is more than alive and well today, the most gratifying experience of my career has been pioneering the concept of Agency Allyship with my partner and now friend Teneshia Jackson Warner, founder and CEO of the award-winning, multicultural...

One of my colleagues asked the other day, “Has running a business always been this complex?” My initial instinct was to model resilience — of course, there have always been challenges, both internal and exogenous. However, the only accurate response was simply: no.

Recent risk reports validate this fact. For example, OnSolve measured an astonishing increase in threats facing businesses...

As companies focus on their sustainability goals it’s imperative that we prioritize people most impacted by climate change to ensure a just transition.

In addition to my CEO role at WE Communications, I’ve been working on the ground with relief organizations in Africa for nearly two decades, as my personal passion. One of the inventive projects that comes to mind when I think about...

There is no more critical issue facing our country today than voting rights. If we don’t have the right to freely cast a vote, actually cast that vote, and have it counted accurately for the candidate of our choice, our democracy is in serious jeopardy.

According to the Brennan Center for Justice, last year Republican-controlled legislatures in 19 states passed 34 laws restricting...

Polarization is a problem that affects everyone in America. It is no longer just the result of disagreements, but the cause of them. It ruins relationships, disrupts business and, at its worst, incites violence, as we saw in the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. And according to the survey we conducted for this report, 90% of Americans don’t believe Polarization is going to decrease...

Far from being close to settled, a war is brewing over returning to the workplace, with different parties already drawing battle lines. Elon Musk, who is never a good barometer of normal behavior but a good bellwether for change, previewed the war when he said to Tesla workers reluctant to fully return to the office, “Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum (and...

The subject of health has been at the forefront of public discussion the last few years. As our physical health was being challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic, so was our mental health. The pandemic upended our work experiences as we faced chronic stress, financial insecurity, and a litany of societal issues - social injustice, devastating court decisions, mass shootings, an unstable economy,...

How many decades has it been since the public relations industry realized it lacked racial diversity? One would think that a lot of progress has been made since the ‘90s, when Black and Latino practitioners were virtually absent from in-house and agency PR teams.

Unfortunately, that is not the case. According to the Arthur Page Society, “compared to U.S. demographics, people of color...