The topic of advancing women’s leadership is personal to me. I’ve spent a lot of time studying the topic and created a three part series dedicated to this incredibly important subject. My first blog post of this series shared statistics ...
I’ve always found myself drawn to advocacy of groups that are often under-represented so it was no surprise that I ended up in the profession of diversity and inclusion. As a Diversity and Inclusion practitioner, I receive speaking engagement ...
Yes. I know. It’s past the time for reviewing the many happenings of 2013, evaluating what we could have done better and making bold resolutions for 2014. It’s almost time to adjust those hastily-made resolutions. (We are two weeks into ...
At least that’s what Michelle Gethers Clark believes and she was quite compelling in convincing approximately 350 others that this statement rings true. “People follow characters and not titles” is her mantra and her life story is ...
More than 6 years ago, a meeting with Bruce Yandle, an economist at Clemson University, generated the idea that Greenville needed to keep a better track of its economic competitiveness. At that time, Greenville had seen a string of successful ...
As a society, we are perceptive of the great intellect Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gifted us with. The 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington evokes reminders of Dr. King’s philosophies and forces reflection. Most often, when ...
Entrepreneurism to Industrialism and Back Again...When a city loses more than 200,000 jobs over 24 months and unemployment spikes to 18%, what are community leaders to do? That issue was front and center in the mid-1980s in Pittsburgh, as its steel ...
