Marc Rettig

Marc Rettig leads The Works of Hanna du Plessis and serves as Hanna’s literary executor. Through Okay Then, his participatory production company, he shepherds Hanna’s writing and art into publication and wider reach.

Since 2011, Marc and Hanna have collaborated to develop approaches, methods, and materials for personal and collective transformation. Hanna joined Marc as principal of Fit Associates in 2011, and together they turned the focus of their work toward what they call “social pattern-shifting”—helping individuals, groups, and organizations work with questions of group culture, oppression and trauma, racial healing, personal liberation, emergent strategy, and what it means to create conditions for co-creation.

As founding faculty in the MFA in Design for Social Innovation at the School of Visual Arts, Marc and Hanna co-taught the Fundamentals course for fourteen years, guiding more than 250 students through their first experiences with the themes and practices central to Hanna’s work. This shared teaching deepened their collaboration and refined the methods and materials Hanna now distills in her writing.

Marc brings both editorial judgment and production capacity to this stewardship role. He sees social complexity through what he calls “a poetic lens”—an orientation that aligns with Hanna’s voice and approach. He understands the audiences who need this work: leaders, educators, facilitators, and communities committed to personal development and collective healing.

Hanna chose Marc to steward her work because of their long collaboration, his deep familiarity with her themes and pedagogical approach, and his commitment to ensuring her voice reaches those who will put it to use in service of a world where all belong.

You can learn more about Marc and his work through the links above, his profile on LinkedIn, and his personal site, as well as his occasional writings on medium.com.