Archives for Kenton Clarke

One Band One Sound – A Musical Path to Secure Your Brand’s Reputation

One Band One Sound – A Musical Path to Secure Your Brand’s Reputation By Kenton Clarke Founder & Social Entrepreneur | Omnikal A Unified Sound Develops a Lasting Memory The topic on many corporate minds today and conversations inside corporate teams is one of brand reputation and brand rescue. The most recent examples of message confusion, message delusion and brand salvage have been seen in the form of national ad campaigns, employee communication and corporate leaders’ far-reaching statements. Diversity and Inclusion. These two words are the running theme for the examples mentioned. I want to ask you to take
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What do Labor Day, STEM & “Diversity” have in common?

What do Labor Day, STEM & “Diversity” have in common? By Kenton Clarke Founder & Social Entrepreneur | Omnikal Today marks the beginning of the National Labor Day celebration of the American worker. My hope is that it causes us all to pause and reflect on the state of the current workforce, jobs, innovation, our children and ourselves as we prepare for the future. As I reflect on how the true meaning of inclusion has played a critical role thus far in STEM, I feel we still have far to go. The ability and availability or existence of team members
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Entrepreneurship- Recipe for Wealth Distribution

Entrepreneurship- Recipe for Wealth Distribution Kenton Clarke, Founder Omnikal Our country, the greatest country on the planet, was created, nourished and developed from a spirit of freedom to build and maintain businesses. Professions, developed during the birth of America such as the farmer, miller, blacksmith and trader created the foundation of the economy across America. The deeply rooted belief of ‘opportunity’ in our country for men/women to develop and sustain businesses created the framework for business people to flourish from the onset of our republic. Capitalism and entrepreneurship are what makes America great and continues to create the opportunity to
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Supplier Diversity Notes : Spend Doesn’t Matter

Spend Doesn’t Matter By Kenton Clarke Founder & Social Entrepreneur | Omnikal Omnikal serves over 2,00,000 members and we receive feedback regularly from business owners who usually talk about two main themes. Focus of large corporations on growing well established diverse companies Too much attention to “Spend” figures. We all know that supply chain strategies require a supplier to have a minimum scale and scope to enable global competitiveness of its customers and in a major corporation: “What Gets Measured Gets Done”. Mission It has been clear for the last few years that supplier diversity exists for 3 main
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