Associated Industries of Massachusetts Chairman Dan Kenary, Co-Founder and CEO of the Harpoon Brewery in Boston, is calling upon employers to step up their interactions with public officials in the face of an increasingly turbulent political environment.

Kenary told more than 750 business leaders at the AIM annual meeting that employers must create a “entrepreneurial populism” in which those who employ the citizens of Massachusetts articulate the value of their work to the larger society.

Here are his remarks…