The anticipation and anxiety that so many in the crisis and consequence management business have is hard to describe. 2025 in some ways represented the 2nd little hill on a rollercoaster ride after the big primary plunge that we called covid-19. The first big dip on a good rollercoaster gives a false sense of, “well that was the worst of it; the...

Formative Experiences My earliest exposure to what is now called “exercise” began in a sandbox with Tonka trucks during the 1970s. Those simple toys inspired countless days of imaginative play. Today, as a grandparent, I’m careful to keep the sandbox covered (thanks to neighborhood cats), but in my childhood, such precautions never crossed our m...