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.

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

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

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

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

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

Building Cooperatively: Building a more inclusive workplace culture

Building Cooperatively is a co-op in Detroit that focuses on historic restoration and investing in the community.

Crain's Detroit Business • 12th April 2020

Room to improve: Women making strides in skilled trades, but there are more gains to be made

Although women make up nearly half of the U.S. workforce, they are significantly underrepresented in the skilled trades. Women are there, across a wide range of trades, but their numbers are low.

Crain's Detroit Business • 12th April 2020

Tanya Saldivar-Ali: Leading a construction firm with an equitable ethos

Tanya Saldivar-Ali first got into the construction industry 16 years ago, when she and her husband, Luis Ali, an electrician, decided to try real estate investments.

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.

Crain's Detroit Business • 12th April 2020

Adrienne Bennett: How to spark the next generation's curiosity about building trades

Adrienne Bennett has been in the plumbing industry for more than 40 years. In 1976, a man who was recruiting for a plumbing apprenticeship walked up to her "and said I looked like a woman who could get something done," she said.

U-M Erb Institute | Business for Sustainability • 11th March 2020

The Detroit water crisis and unexpected coalitions

Since 2014, the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department has shut off the water to 141,000 households whose bills were past due. Last year, more than 23,000 households reportedly had their water shut off.

U-M Erb Institute | Business for Sustainability • 4th March 2020

Climate change is not just an environmental issue

The term “environmental justice” still may be unfamiliar to some people, but you don’t have to be familiar with it to understand what it means when you see it. With the Flint water crisis and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the people who were hit hardest were poor and black.

U-M Erb Institute | Business for Sustainability • 7th February 2020

Sustainability in Detroit, Part 5: Real estate development

Abir Ali describes herself as a city builder. Her career has included architecture, philanthropy, design and real estate—with specialized positions across disciplines.