When I worked with TRS, I remember thinking: this isn’t broken because people don’t care — it’s broken because everything is competing at once. TRS was active. Engaged. Deeply invested […]
Communication is often treated as a single skill—something people either have or don’t. In practice, communication functions more like a system. It is shaped by structure, reinforced through systems, carried […]
I built Umber + Onyx because I saw a gap in how communication is understood—and how access to this work is controlled. The idea first took shape during a Toastmasters […]
2025 made something impossible to ignore: strategic communications is no longer a “stable” profession in the United States. It is a pressure-tested one. The mass layoffs tied to policy shifts […]