by McKenzie Wren | Jun 25, 2020 | Blog, Uncategorized
Not gonna lie – it’s hard to know where to begin. From the ongoing protests demanding justice for Ahmaud, Breonna, Rayshard and all the other Black lives lost to police brutality; to demands for policing reforms; to the dismantling of visual symbols of...
by McKenzie Wren | Apr 19, 2020 | Blog, Uncategorized
“Everyday is today,” said Tom Hanks on Saturday Night Live sometime in the last Groundhog day of quarantine. “There is no Saturday anymore.” The days just blur together and, to paraphrase Dylan Thomas, “One day was so much like another that I don’t remember if I had...
by McKenzie Wren | Jan 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
I have been thinking a lot about the case of the GA State University freshman and her use of the N-word that brought immediate and public shaming and got her suspended from her soccer team and caused her to withdraw from school. Obviously context is everything and...
by McKenzie Wren | Jan 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
Inclusion. Diversity. Employee experience. Employee engagement. Talent strategy. Emotional intelligence. Employee retention. All of these things hang out under the rubric of culture. According to Merriam Webster, culture is “the characteristic features of everyday...
by McKenzie Wren | Jan 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
In my heart of hearts I am a collaborator. I love the interchange of ideas and co-creating something. I love it when people riff off each other, and brilliance and creativity emerge. Not everyone is wired this way. My husband, for example. He is essentially an...
