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September 10, 2025

Outlook on Leadership with Courtney Lorenz

Cortney Lorenz started Cultured Kombucha Co. in 2015, introducing the first kombucha microbrewery to Michigan. In the past 10 years, she has taken the Traverse City-based company from startup stage, selling its multiflavored fermented tea at farmer’s markets, to an award-winning second-stage business that now distributes its products to more than 500 restaurants, breweries and stores. Among recent milestones, Cultured Kombucha was named a 2025 Michigan Companies to Watch honoree this spring, and the company is getting reach to launch a new line of canned kombucha.

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September 8, 2025

Conservation steward update

For the past several years the foundation has offered a seasonal conservation steward program to accelerate growth for future natural resources professionals. Below, Dawson Porter, a student at Michigan State University, discusses his experience from this summer.

Land stewardship 0 2 min read
August 7, 2025

Hearing the unheard: A different type of leadership

We often hear second-stage business owners express frustration over constantly needing to tell employees what to do rather than seeing them take initiative and solve problems without prompting. Granted, having proactive employees is partly due to hiring — getting the right people on the bus and in the right seats. Yet I also believe that the ability to listen plays…

President's Blog 0 3 min read
July 7, 2025

Safe Bites: Allergy friendly and chef inspired

Driven by the belief that everyone deserves access to healthy meals, Innovation Food Service (IFS) provides nutritious, high-quality meals to schools, childcare centers, senior living facilities and businesses. Founded in 2002 by Thomas Lane, a trained chef, the Twinsburg, Ohio-based company has been growing steadily since its inception. Last year alone it served 7,000 daily lunches to schools in northeast…

SIG Case Studies 0 2 min read
May 23, 2025

Better burns: Altering the timing and sequence of prescribed fire

Researchers from Grand Valley State University (GVSU) have been conducting a multi-year study to see how seasonal timing and sequence of prescribed burns may affect restored prairies. This marks the first research in the Great Lakes region to investigate multiple rounds of seasonal burns and compare repetitive fire treatments with alternating ones. “Land managers typically conduct prescribed burns in the…

Land stewardship 0 3 min read
May 20, 2025

JEM Tech Group

Jami Moore is the president and second-generation owner of JEM Tech Group in Clinton Township, Michigan, which specializes in power and cooling within data centers and other mission-critical IT spaces. Moore’s father, James Edward Miller, started the company in 1979, and Moore joined in 2000, taking over when her father retired in 2001. Since then, Moore’s two sisters have joined the family business, and during the past two decades JEM has not only quadrupled its annual sales and number of employees, but also opened an office in New York. Moore attributes JEM’s growth to great customer relationships, referrals, her dedicated team and a never-ending commitment to knowing her industry’s future path.

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