Peacemaking is less about winning and more about finding common ground and shared interests to create opportunity.

By Marian Baldini KenCrest President & CEO Years ago, my former boss gave me the assignment to create a performance management system. Two of us collaborated on the project, and we decided to see how other companies had set up their systems. We took a field trip to a local organization that had just implemented a new system; they were honest…

By Marian Baldini KenCrest President & CEO As a small child, my daughter learned a variety of bad words, and one of them was related to ‘yielding.’ One day, at three years old she came home quoting her father…”$#!%* drivers!”  Her dad was expressing his frustrations with the yield sign on the local highway bypass. While this kind of ‘yielding’…

By Marian Baldini KenCrest President & CEO On New Year’s Eve weekend, I wasn’t actively crafting my resolution. My husband had gone off on a fire call (he volunteers at our local fire department), and my daughter and I were surfing the channels for a movie to watch. We came across Won’t You Be My Neighbor a documentary about (Mister)…

By Marian Baldini KenCrest President & CEO Pete is a diabetic in his mid-40s with Down syndrome, and he makes the very best food choices with little to no support. Although he knows what to do, Pete’s blood sugar requires careful attention; he needs insulin injections on a frequent and unpredictable basis.  Because of this, Pete is supported at one…

By Marian Baldini KenCrest President & CEO Around this time every year my maternal grandmother, Gran, would put up her manger; and every year, we’d take the little rubber baby Jesus and hide him somewhere nearby. We had learned from my paternal grandmother that the baby could only be put in the manger on Christmas day. Each year Gran would…

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