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Business in Rhyme: Exploring Inclusion In the Workplace

Photographs by JD Mason and Pavel Dvorak

To be successful in business and in life starts with accepting and integrating the multitude of talents and interests you possess

In Conversation With the Mission

(a poem from my book of poetry, The Whisper)

I disappeared from myself

The heart broke for caring too much

Caring about the prestigious work

I became a stranger

A stranger reimagining who I once was

A pilgrimage started in the self-sabotage of

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