Learning to Listen
This past Monday, the More Vang staff participated in a day of learning to celebrate the Martin Luther King Jr. […]
Teach Our Children Well
In the waning days of August, I managed to escape the confines of the Capital Beltway for a brief family […]
Only The Curious Will Survive
This post is going to sound a bit dark for an optimist like me, but remember—optimism is about accepting a […]
Race and Us
Over the past week, I’ve been talking with family, friends and coworkers about racial equity. The recent video evidence presented […]
Empathy for the Economic Architecture Project
Expressing client value happens in many ways at More Vang. We might get involved in developing a campaign or messaging […]
A Deeper Dive into the Swamp
“The suburbs” often evoke a cookie-cutter picture of Americana: kids playing in fenced green yards, ice cream trucks rumbling around […]
Practice empathy and #embracetheswamp
We’ve talked a lot recently about the meaning of empathy and how we use it to do our best work. […]
Harry Potter Makes You Nicer
We all know that reading makes you smarter, improves your vocabulary, and provides you with interesting tidbits to share at […]
Empathy Briefs. The difference between great work and guesswork.
Our CEO, Jon, recently wrote a blog post about the origins of the word empathy. The English word empathy was […]
No sympathy for misusers of the word empathy
Choose your words carefully A sophisticated vocabulary gives us the ability to express our best ideas, thoughts and beliefs. But […]