Global Sport Matters • 21st December 2020 Less Backlash For Athletes’ Activism Athletes have stepped up as advocates this year. And some powerful decision-makers have reversed course to support athletes who use their platform to advocate for racial and social justice.
Crain's Detroit Business • 22nd November 2020 How companies are adapting employee health, wellness strategies for COVID-19 and beyond Since employers first began figuring out how to respond to COVID-19 in the spring, employees' health and safety have been paramount.
Crain's Detroit Business • 22nd November 2020 Taking extra time off for COVID-19 Employers have become more flexible with employees taking time off, including leaves of absence.
Associations Now • 1st November 2020 Quick Tips for In-Person Events For event planners hoping to transition to a post-pandemic in-person experience, a few tips to help ease the transition.
Associations Now • 1st November 2020 Planning Your Face-to-Face Comeback Associations were quick to convert their conferences to virtual events when COVID-19 halted in-person meetings. Looking ahead, associations and their attendees are eager to get back together face to face. But how?
Women's Running • 6th October 2020 The Newly Formed Running Industry Diversity Coalition Has Big Plans The running community says it’s welcoming to everybody: All you need is a pair of shoes. Anybody can join us. And runners are diverse in many ways. But some groups are still underrepresented at the starting line, in running clubs, in the media, and in the running industry. And not everybody feels welcome.
Crain's Detroit Business • 6th September 2020 40 Under 40 I wrote eight of these profiles: Beth McKenney, Brent Ott, Chantá Parker, Jonathan Quarles, Eric Van Dam, Leslie Walton, S. Eliot Weiner, Deirdre Young
Crain's Detroit Business • 6th September 2020 40 Under 40 - Leslie Walton When COVID-19 hit, anesthesiologist Leslie Walton had a surplus of patients at Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital. But she learned that one of the practices in her network was imploring providers to travel to even harder-hit areas in the Northeast, and she felt compelled to answer the call.
Crain's Detroit Business • 6th September 2020 40 Under 40 - Jonathan Quarles When Jonathan Quarles founded the BTL Group, he didn’t intend to get into the business of water. But in 2018, he waded into the Flint water crisis when helping a company get its water generation technology deployed.
Associations Now • 12th August 2020 Coronavirus Response: Relief for Struggling Restaurant Workers With more than 8 million restaurant workers laid off since the beginning of coronavirus, NRAEF created the Restaurant Employee Relief Fund and distributed one-time $500 payments to those in need.
Associations Now • 12th August 2020 Sustainability: Landscape Architects Take Steps Toward Carbon-Neutral Communities You might not expect to find landscape architects in the army of professionals fighting climate change. But they are.
Associations Now • 12th August 2020 Healthcare: Better Treatments for Depression Millions of people around the world suffer from anxiety, depression, PTSD, and related mental health conditions. The Anxiety and Depression Association of America is on a mission to find new treatments to improve their quality of life and, one day, to prevent and cure these disorders.
Associations Now • 12th August 2020 Coronavirus Response: New Spaces for Patients To deal with patient surge, AIA developed an assessment tool to help healthcare and non-healthcare entities make decisions about converting spaces into healthcare operations.
Associations Now • 12th August 2020 Healthcare: A Speedier Response for Stroke Patients Through its Get Ahead of Stroke campaign, SNIS hopes to save lives and reduce disability by ensuring stroke patients are taken to the right hospital for treatment.
Crain's Detroit Business • 28th June 2020 How to keep your company's diversity and inclusion efforts from fizzling out As national conversations about racism and equity continue, companies are looking inward and taking action. But are your diversity and inclusion (D&I) efforts at risk of fizzling out?
Crain's Detroit Business • 14th June 2020 You sent a #BlackLivesMatter statement. What's next? How your company can address racism Since George Floyd's death and the protests that have followed, companies have responded in different ways. Some issued statements to the public and to their employees....But beyond such statements, what can organizations do to address these issues — which might include systemic racism in their own space?
Women's Running • 21st April 2020 How Running Companies Are Entering the Fight Against COVID-19 Normally, New Balance’s factories are humming along, making running shoes and other athletic wear. But they ground to a halt, along with nearly everything else deemed nonessential, when the dangers of COVID-19 became clear.
Associations Now • 20th April 2020 Attention On Retention: Strategies for Boosting Employee Retention in a Tough Time A changing workforce requires a new approach to employee retention if organizations want to keep their top talent in a business climate facing new uncertainties.
Associations Now • 20th April 2020 The Role Managers Play in Retention More than half of employees leave a job because of a manager. How can your organization avoid that trap?
Crain's Detroit Business • 12th April 2020 Deana Neely: An electrical contractor strikes out on her own Deana Neely is CEO of Detroit Voltage. Her path to becoming an electrical contractor began when she was 18 and working for the Detroit Buildings, Safety Engineering and Environmental Department.
