Holtz Communications + Technology

In messages all agency heads were instructed to deliver to their employees, the Trump Administration asserted that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) measures “divided Americans by race” and “resulted in shameful discrimination.”

In fact, it was hundreds of years of racism – individual, structural, and systemic – in support of a caste system that endures to this day that divided Americans by race and…

The futility of New Year’s resolutions was weighing on me the other day. I want to be better at some things in the new year: exercising more, eating healthier, spending more time with family, reading more. I am, however, acutely aware that, according to research, 23 percent of people quit their resolutions by the end of the first week, and 43…

Artificial Generative Intelligence (AGI) has been widely available publicly for less than a year, but the public relations industry has moved quickly to assess its potential and begin the process of implementation. How is it going so far? A brief from the PR Academy looks at the state of AGI in PR. Also in this monthly long-form episode:

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We take Black History Month very seriously where I work. For the second consecutive year, our Black Employee Resource Group (ERG)—called The Collective—is managing content and activities from the bottom up. It’s a far more effective and authentic—and less prescriptive—approach than having leadership deliver it from the top down.

As the head of communications (and, I like to think, a Collective ally), I’m doing all I can with the…