I really love it when some big news breaks and I can say ‘I was just thinking about that!’ It happened earlier this week, when President Biden issued Executive Orders that are aimed at spurring innovation, much of it by…
The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. last March instantly altered the homecare industry. The ability to offer safe, in-person care to people with disabilities and older adults became more important and vastly more complex. Our client Accra—Minnesota's…
Is anyone else sick of the the alarming messages we are seeing about important topics these days? Whether on the topic of beating COVID-19, global political dynamics or climate change, it seems things are either dire and dystopian or fabulous…
Minnesota has received $12.8 billion in federal funding for relief and recovery, a once in a generation amount. Although final totals are not known yet, the Tunheim Public Affairs team thought it was important to kick-start the conversation on how…
As a 65-year-old white female executive, I must confess that I have serious work to do on the challenge of talking comfortably about race: about differences, about commonalities, about privilege, about systemic racism and its corrosive impacts on people –…
I have written from time to time about the increasing pressure on leaders of organizations, including corporations, to “engage in the public square” in ways that would have been highly unlikely not so very long ago. As reckonings on multiple…
Happy Juneteenth! Tomorrow, our team will be taking time off to commemorate the holiday marking the emancipation of people who were enslaved in the United States. We will be (virtually) closing our office doors to take time to reflect on…
I learned about the history of Juneteenth more than twenty years ago, when it was first recognized in Minnesota, and was respectful of the idea that it was an important day for some of us. I honestly was not sure…
Beyond the pure enjoyment of being back in gatherings with friends, family and colleagues, I am benefitting this summer from the opportunity to watch our seven-year-old granddaughter play her first season of softball. It is turning out to be a…