
A young colleague’s award offers a revealing way into Neil Mortine’s career: building a communications agency meant creating room for other people to succeed. From Columbus to The Shipyard, his story follows the work of keeping people together while the business changes.
She nearly became a Spanish teacher, learned communications on the auto-show circuit, and returned to the city she missed. At Franco, a job became a stewardship - and eventually an ownership stake in a 62-year-old Detroit institution.