Craig Robinson, Entrepreneur and Board Member of Leadership Project Now
This week on The Local Take(Saturday 8am), we re continuing our conversation about business leaders who are coming together against voter suppression laws in our state and nation. Craig Robinson is an experienced chief executive, division president, and board director for global commercial real estate, outsourcing, and tech-enabled service companies. Robinson has led business units within both large global public companies and private mid-cap growth businesses. He is one of the corporate leaders motivated to support voting rights and serves on the board of
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Leadership Now Project.
I ask Robinson if he can tell us why this is the time for business to be involved in civic engagement. He speaks about growing up in
This week on WCLK s The Local Take(Saturdays 8am), I reached out to the Leadership Now Project to learn about their efforts to work with corporate America to support voting rights.
One of the organization s founders is Georgia s own Sarah Riggs Amico, a former 2020 candidate for US Senate and the Democratic Nominee for Lt Governor in 2018. She explains the organization was formed by ten female graduates of Harvard Business school in 2017. Amico says that they felt business should have a role in renewing America s civic engagement. The organization has grown to over 300 members, all with unique networks.
I ask how their coalition could get over 100 corporate leaders to attend a virtual meeting on a Saturday. She shares that the right to vote isn t a partisan issue. They were able to pull together a diverse group of corporate leaders who were eager to participate. She shares that many organizations consider civic engagement a core part of their business culture. They have receive
GOP Faction Wields Antitrust Threats, Echoing Trumpâs Populism
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(Bloomberg) Some of Donald Trumpâs most fervent congressional allies are turning to a favorite tool of the former president: threatening antitrust action against American companies that cross them politically on voting rights or other controversial issues.
(Bloomberg) Some of Donald Trumpâs most fervent congressional allies are turning to a favorite tool of the former president: threatening antitrust action against American companies that cross them politically on voting rights or other controversial issues.
Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri last week fired what he called an âopening salvoâ to an ambitious trust-busting agenda when he introduced legislation to crack down on mergers by large corporations and give antitrust officials more authority to break up dominant companies.
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