Coffey Talk

Women in Tech can't just be women talking to other women. A year ago, Cam Sessinger joined me on Coffey Talk as we were getting ready to bring She Builds to Community Summit. This year, he's back, and there's a lot to celebrate. Women in Tech has grown from a one-hour luncheon to 11 hours of programming across Summit, She Builds is returning, and the conversation is getting bigger....

Sometimes the thing you build for other people starts with something you had to learn for yourself. In this episode of Coffey Talk, Kate sits down with fractional CMO Monica Hoyer, founder of VOICES, for a conversation that starts with communication and ends somewhere much bigger. Monica shares how coaching changed the way she listens, communicates, leads, and handles the tendency to absorb everyt...

In this Espresso Shot, Kate skips the guest chair and talks straight into the mic about something she keeps coming back to: what it actually means to find your voice. Drawing on conversations with Michelle Serna, Brittany Burke, Jen Rinfret, Danielle McNamee, and Tiffany Allen, she makes the case that finding your voice isn't a single moment of arrival. It's a slow accumulation of small,...

This week's episode solo one, just Kate and a cup of coffee, talking about curiosity: what it is, why we lose it as we grow up, and what happens when we let ourselves become beginners again. Kate traces curiosity across past Coffey Talk conversations, from Kevin Armstrong's reminder to stay in discovery mode, to Mel Wilhelmi following one interesting question into a whole new career dire...

Yvette Carter's career reads like a lesson in following curiosity. Fashion design, cake decorating, wedding and wine club coordination, oil and gas events, and eventually a move to Colorado that led her into the Microsoft Dynamics partner space, where she now runs DAXDude365 with her husband Justin. In this conversation, Yvette and Kate dig into the thread that connects every chapter, long be...

One year ago, Kate launched Coffey Talk with no real expectations of what it could become- she just felt a calling to act. In this special anniversary episode, she sits down with her husband Sterling, the man who wrote the show's theme song and has heard every single edit, to look back on the first year. They talk about how the show started as a simple idea about books before becoming somethi...

Summary Tom Campbell, founder of the Gotta Look Up movement, joins Kate to talk about what happens when we stop paying attention to our own lives. Tom shares the family values that shaped him, the season of his life that tested everything he believed, and the three ideas he now uses to help people find their way back to purpose: Life's Quicksand, Trees of Joy, and Anchors of Hope. This episod...

Shawn Sissenwein has spent almost thirty years building systems, community, and confidence, starting on a family farm and moving into nearly three decades of Business Central and NAV implementation work. In this episode, she talks about founding Weekend Power Platform, co-authoring a book with Kim Cogiton, and now building her first AI Copilot Agents in full view of her community. Shawn shares wha...

Yuliya Kuklina didn't grow up dreaming of a career in tech. She grew up in Siberia dreaming of driving a bus. Her path to becoming a Microsoft Dynamics and Odoo consultant wound through finance, teaching, nail technician work, and luxury retail, and through TechFluent Academy, long before technology entered the picture.  In this episode, Yuliya talks with Kate about moving to the United State...

Episode Description Katie Erickson spent a decade as a journalist-turned-content marketer inside the Microsoft Business Central and Biz Apps world. She survived a revolving door of bosses, watched AI move into her lane, and kept showing up. Then her position was eliminated after ten years. In this conversation, Katie talks honestly about what it means to build your identity around something that c...

In this episode of Coffey Talk, Kate sits down with Danielle McNamee, who leads the ERP Partner Channel at Versapay. Danielle shares openly about navigating life's hardest seasons, including her experience with infertility and IVF, and how those experiences deepened her empathy, reshaped her leadership, and changed the way she shows up for the people around her. They dig into the frenemy dyna...

Episode Summary Khaled Nassra has never done things the conventional way. He spent his career in go-to-market leadership, founded Enki Consulting, and then eight months into his marriage, he and his wife Emma packed up and hit the world. Thirty cities across Europe and North America. No plan. Just the decision to step outside. In this episode, Khaled and Kate dig into what that journey has actuall...

Episode Summary In this episode of Coffey Talk, Kate sits down with Gina McGlamry, channel manager at TrueCommerce and a well-known relationship builder in the Microsoft Dynamics ecosystem. What starts as a conversation about conference culture and showing up authentically as a brand ambassador takes an exciting turn into one of the richest leadership conversations Coffey Talk has had. Gina talks...

EPISODE SUMMARY Mel Wilhelmi has never had a master plan. And that's exactly the point. In this episode, Kate sits down with the Sr. Director of Marketing and Strategic Growth at Sunrise Technologies, a Microsoft Dynamics partner, for a conversation about what it actually looks like to keep saying yes to the most interesting thing in the room. Mel's career started at 16 at a job fair she...

Episode Description: Shirley Grimes describes herself simply as a mom just trying to make it - but that description doesn't begin to cover the ground she's covered. In this Mother's Day episode of Coffey Talk, Shirley shares a story that starts in a car, winds through a psychology degree, a grief-fueled cross-country drive, and an accidental entry into the Business Central world thr...

Jenn Rinfret has lived a lot of lives. She was a runway model in Milan at 17, a single mom rebuilding from scratch, a survivor of a serious car accident, and the founder of a business that helped seniors navigate technology with dignity. Today she is the Commercial Lead for Americas at Seer 365 in the Microsoft channel — and through every chapter, empathy has been her north star. In this episode,...

Kevin Armstrong has spent decades at the intersection of technology and growth, and in this episode of Coffey Talk, he pulls back the curtain on what it actually takes to win in today's marketplace. From his early days at Xerox to scaling companies, leading transformations, and now driving AI strategy at FinListics, Kevin shares the principles that have kept him in the room through every mark...

Kim Dallefeld has spent nearly three decades in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Business Central ecosystem, and her story is anything but a straight line. From accidentally triggering a debugging message at Ford Motor Company to leading a ten-country ERP implementation, building Dallefeld Consulting from the ground up, and eventually selling it to Centre Technologies, Kim has lived through just abo...

Summary Purpose doesn’t usually arrive as a clear plan. It reveals itself over time through mentors, misalignment, and the moments that quietly energize us. In this episode of Coffey Talk , Kate sits down with Sam Bush to talk about how purpose actually shows up in a career. From early mentorship to seasons that didn’t feel right, Sam shares how teaching, speaking, and guiding others became the th...

In this episode of Coffey Talk, Kate Coffey-Bacon sits down with Shannon Mullins of A BC Consulting Group and Pierre Lemyre of Gestisoft to talk about the human side of an acquisition in the Microsoft Business Central ecosystem. Rather than focusing on the press release, the conversation explores how relationships, cultural alignment, and shared strategy led two organizations to realize they could...

In this episode of Coffey Talk, Kate sits down with Molly Fuchsel, Founder of PartnerIn, and Peter Fidler, President of IAMCP, to talk about unity in the Microsoft Dynamics ecosystem. They explore the overwhelm partners are feeling in the face of AI and rapid change, why education is no longer optional, and what collaboration over competition actually looks like in practice. The conversation touch...

Episode Summary In this episode of Coffey Talk, I sit down with Michelle Serna, SVP of Revenue at TruNorth and Microsoft MVP, to talk about what it actually means to build something that does not yet exist. Michelle has created four roles inside her organization by identifying operational gaps, proving value, and earning the political trust to formalize the function. From recovering millions in op...

Summary: This Coffey Talk episode explores how innovation begins with intention, not features. Kate Coffey-Bacon sits down with Projo founder Charbel Mawad to unpack the personal frustration that sparked the product and the discipline it took to know when to stop adding more. The conversation centers on listening closely, designing for real life, and defining success beyond sales numbers. This is...

☕️🎙️ Summary: In this episode of Coffey Talk, Kate Coffey-Bacon sits down with leadership coach and former fintech executive Maggie Coulter to talk about what happens when life interrupts the plan. Maggie shares how a cancer diagnosis and years in high-stakes tech leadership reshaped how she thinks about courage, identity, and career change. Together, they explore possibility-oriented realism, th...

Summary: In this episode of Coffey Talk, Kate sits down with Erica Hakonson, CEO and founder of Maven Collective Marketing, to talk about what happens when purpose is not a side project, but the operating system of a business. Erica shares her journey from aspiring academic to entrepreneur, the two-year push to become a certified B Corp, and why giving is not a nice-to-have for her team, it is a r...