By Ellen Anderson, Director of Research.   I had the opportunity to attend my first ACCE annual conference last week, which was held in beautiful Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The conference had solid professional development workshops, best practice exchanges, and fun networking events including an awards dinner and cocktail party and a trip to Miller Park to see a ballgame.   Mac Holladay, our founder and CEO at Market Street, was recently asked by ACCE to pen a cover story on...

By J. Mac Holladay, founder and CEO. Diversity. Webster says it means – “the condition of being diverse.” Diverse is defined as “differing from one another – distinct or unlike elements or qualities.” Diversity comes in many forms and descriptions. It is about age, race, ethnicity, lifestyle choice, family makeup, and many more things. There is no question that our world becomes more diverse every day – in almost every way. Some are frightened by it, while others embrace it. In...