Grounded in Experience,
Driven by Results

The global financial crisis exacerbated long-term trends including rising student debt and stagnant wages leaving the public with a sense that the system is broken.

Social, demographic, and technological changes swept across the US, and with those changes came important shifts in government policy and public opinion, leading to feelings of uncertainty and deteriorating trust in institutions.

Disruption in how we work, who is working, differing expectations, communication immediacy, blurring of the personal and the professional.

Shootings of Black people like Trayvon Martin, Freddie Gray, Charleston church and Breonna Taylor. A racial reckoning in America.

Sandy Hook, Uvalde, Aurora, Las Vegas massacre, Parkland, Pulse nightclub. Themes - racism, homophobia, isolation, alienation of white male in society.

Women come forward - Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein, Les Moonves, Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, R. Kelly, Louis C.K., Mario Batali.

Remote work, Gen Z entry into work disrupted, changed expectations for work, hybrid workplaces, implications for engagement, how to manage remotely, etc.

Society becomes increasingly polarized - through partisanship, political violence, election interference, and news audience dispersion. We are increasingly losing the idea of a shared reality and facts. These divisions and differing perceptions permeate the workplace.

Increased polarization plus the inflationary hangover of the pandemic creates resentment in search of a target. The resulting cultural backlash to these hardships is evidenced and exacerbated by greater restrictions on abortion rights, LGBTQ rights and immigration.