Ingram's Magazine: April 2025

Ingram’s April 2025 Digital Edition

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10 Things … To Know About Healthcare Today

PUBLISHED APRIL 2025 A point-by-point snapshot of major health care delivery systems and providers in Kansas City set against a background of national trend lines: If one trend line jumps out among all the other metrics in the Kansas City…more

Follow the Money Flow

PUBLISHED APRIL 2025 Earlier this month, President Trump unveiled potential reciprocal tariffs in a Rose Garden ceremony, and they were bigger than just about anyone expected. The base was a 10 percent tariff on all imported goods. Additional tariffs were…more

Investing, From Thirtysomething to . . .

PUBLISHED APRIL 2025 As I moved through my 30s and now into my early 40s, my perspective on wealth management has changed —both as a financial professional and, more personally, as a wife and mother. When I first began my…more

Prioritizing Your Legal Spend

PUBLISHED APRIL 2025 In the past five years, in succession, we have encountered a worldwide public health crisis, soaring inflation, rapidly rising interest rates, fickle consumer demand, the renewal of geopolitical rivalries, the apparent end of globalization as an organizing paradigm,…more

Q&A . . . With Philip Sarnecki

PUBLISHED APRIL 2025 Q: More than halfway through the Baby Boomer retirement transition, do you see any changes in the way the newest generation of leaders is approaching their work and your approach to their development in general? A: I’ve…more

Sizing Up KC Law

PUBLISHED APRIL 2025 The recent release of this year’s AmLaw 100 placed two Kansas City firms—Polsinelli PC and Husch Blackwell—among the nation’s elite. And for each, 2024 produced record billings.  So their body counts must be going up, right? Not…more

Alumnus of the Year: Ramin Cherafat

PUBLISHED APRIL 2025 Ramin Cherafat’s brand of leadership was forged in a crucible of family and fate, of loss and resolve. He wields it today as chief executive of McCownGordon Construction, the second-largest hometown general contractor, which he has well…more

Ingram’s 40 Under Forty Class of 2025

PUBLISHED APRIL 2025 Lessons in Leadership, Vol. 27 Spotlighting the high achievers from every corner of regional business Executives and entrepreneurs, innovators and engineers, dreamers and doers. In many locales, 40 diverse achievers like this might pursue their separate destinies…more