Erin Braddock Guthrie

Five surprising factors that influence their purchase decisions. 64% of business buyers are not the gray-suited execs you might picture: they’re Millennials and Gen Z. And they’re not buying for the reasons you’d think. Over the past two years, there’s been a surge of popularity for the generations under the age of 45 to become the predominant buyers for businesses, and these numbers are growing (Forrester).

When the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was signed into law in 1990 (https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/101/hr5237), it set a mandate for any agency or institution that received federal funding to return “cultural items”—inclusive of Ancestral remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony—to lineal descendants and culturally affiliated “Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations (NHOs).”Footnote 1 The law delegated...

5 ways leaders can tackle tough topics and support equality in the workplace. It’s hard to believe it’s been over four months since George Floyd was murdered. And with our nation’s attention span bombarded by a truly bizarre, unprecedented news cycle, leaders may be distracted from the Black Lives Matter movement. However, as Black people in the workplace, we don’t have the choice to put these human rights issues on the back burner.