Leadership

Innovation & Growth

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…
Kathy Tunheim
July 14, 2021
Communications

Talking about race

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 –…
Kathy Tunheim
June 30, 2021
Corporate Communications

Corporate Voice

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…
Kathy Tunheim
June 23, 2021
Community Development

Observing Juneteenth

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…
Kathy Tunheim
June 15, 2021
Communications Leadership

Softball Lessons

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…
Kathy Tunheim
June 8, 2021