For decades, leftist activists deftly navigated corporate shareholder meetings, successfully bullying risk-averse corporate executives into submission on everything from irrational climate mandates to divisive race and gender-based initiatives.
Conservatives played catch up, with The Heritage Foundation at the tip of the spear against corporate wokeism in publicly traded companies.
With decades as an influential think tank, Heritage knew how to build the coalitions and advance messaging frameworks to shift the debate—and it did. Now it is moving directly into the fray of shareholder activism by using its financial muscle in the boardroom debates of blue-chip U.S. companies.
Heritage is blazing an important trail, armed with the resources to counter universities that have not been shy about asserting their leftist influence over corporations and asset…
