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Graphic by Ridgeview Institute On February 23, I will be moderating a crucial panel discussion at LeadersConnect on the relationship between mind, body, spirit, and a healthy heart. Our featured speakers, Dr. Stefanie Simmons, Eric Fretz, and Kemper Sosa will share their knowledge about how to maintain harmony among these aspects to promote well-being. There are many ways we can learn to create harmony and balance. One way is to focus on the blessings we have, rather than craving after the things we …

Denise Brooks-Williams, Dr. Kimberly Andrews Espy, and Kristi Stepp at the Leaders Connect Detroit How Women Lead Panel This past month, Leaders Connect Detroit hosted a panel titled “How Women Lead,” featuring Dr. Kimberly Andrews Espy, President of Wayne State University; Denise Brooks-Williams, Senior Vice President and CEO of Care Delivery at Henry Ford Health Systems; and Kristi Stepp, Partner at Sigred Solutions, who also served as the moderator for the event. Today, I would like to highlight some of the …

From left to right: Dr. Rob, Dunrie Greiling, Lisa Wozniak, Phil Roos, and Tim Dekker.   If you don’t know me already, My name is Dunrie Greiling. I have a Ph.D. in plant ecology from the University of Michigan and I have worked in the startup-tech ecosystem here for the last 2 decades. I am a friend of Rob’s. I’ve been around LC for a while.   I was born in Michigan and I love this place.   I love …

Written by Dunrie Greiling, Ph.D., Guest Contributor For me, it started with losing the elms. The elms lined the streets in Grosse Pointe in my youth. They arched high above the road and in sidewalks and lent the town the grandeur of an outdoor cathedral. After Dutch Elm disease took them in the 1970s and 80s, my town was diminished, reduced in height and in wonder Now oak wilt is threatening red and white oaks, which support the most biodiversity …

After almost 40 years of working with men, I’m still trying to figure us out. I started back in the 80s when I was in my 40s. I wrote about men like myself who were trying to balance work and family. Way too often, work won. Back in those days, we were trying to figure out what healthy masculinity looked like. As I wrote in one of my books, often we felt like we were trying to “Awaken from a …

In Michigan today, football is huge. Two seismic events in the same month: Michigan Wolverines playing for the national, and the Detroit Lions competing for the Super Bowl. January 2024 could be the greatest football month in the history of Michigan.   For some of us, football started when we were very young. As we played in our backyards, we all dreamed of one day playing in the Big House or at Briggs Stadium, where the Detroit Lions roared.   …