Time4Coffee Podcast

Alden Zecha is a founding partner at We Scale Impact , a consulting firm that focuses on supporting early stage social enterprise clients. He is also Managing Director for an angel investment group, Sidecar Angels . Over the course of his career he has raised over $50 million in capital for a variety of ventures. Even though Alden majored in Chemical Engineering at Princeton University , he has wo...

Elisabeth Rodgers is an award-winning actress and audiobook narrator, and longtime resident of New York City. She has worked both on stage and behind a mic as a narrator in her prolific career. Her work has been featured on multiple end-of-year lists for audiobook narration. Elisabeth has also picked up many more skills , including stage fighting, period dancing, singing, and mastery of various ac...

Alden Zecha is a founding partner at We Scale Impact , a consulting firm that focuses on supporting early stage social enterprise clients. He is also Managing Director for an angel investment group, Sidecar Angels . Over the course of his career he has raised over $50 million in capital for a variety of ventures. Even though Alden majored in Chemical Engineering at Princeton University , he has wo...

Alden Zecha is a founding partner at We Scale Impact , a consulting firm that focuses on supporting early stage social enterprise clients. He is also Managing Director for an angel investment group, Sidecar Angels . Over the course of his career he has raised over $50 million in capital for a variety of ventures. Even though Alden majored in Chemical Engineering at Princeton University , he has wo...

Brenda Denbesten has been a chemical engineer in the manufacturing and mining industry for over 15 years. Currently, she is a continuous improvement manager in Australia at Orica . Brenda is also the founder of a YouTube series called “Chronicles of a Female Engineer,” where she explains what engineers do, how to get ahead in the industry as well as how to work in a male-dominated field. She is a...

David Halbert is the Outreach Manager at The Educational Justice Institute (EJI) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The mission of EJI is to bring about positive policy reform to correctional institutions through the introduction of education and education-based technology into prisons and jails. Before working at EJI , David held an array of positions including working in Boston City...

Casey Near is the Executive Director of Counseling at CollegeWise , the largest college admissions counseling company in the United States. In her role as an executive director, she manages all of the company’s admissions counselors, oversees day-to-day operations, and monitors the quality of counseling at CollegeWise . Casey was awarded the title of CollegeWise Counselor of the year in 2015 and C...

Ben Kiker is the founder of the Ben Kiker Group , which offers business, executive, and recovery coaching. Ben works 1:1 with top performers and with organizations to identify the roadblocks standing in the way of their respective transformation. He also helps them develop a plan that incorporates his Six Essentials to Get Shit Done (GSD) to ensure successful outcomes.  Ben founded BKG after a 30...

David Rosenstein is an admissions coordinator and sales development representative at Bullseye Admissions *, an education startup to help high school students navigate the college application process. He graduated from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business in May of 2020 with dual degrees in marketing and management .  Needless to say, amidst a global pandemic, David grad...

Brett Bergen is a financial planning and analysis professional for the United States Navy , working for Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) . When he first started with the Navy in 2010, he was responsible for working with a technical and business leadership team in the financial planning, analysis and execution of a multibillion dollar budget for U.S. Navy acquisition programs across multiple fisc...

Hope Greenberg is the co-Founder of Soapbox Strategists , a digital media agency that helps clients capture hearts (and dollars) in the online world.  However, Hope’s journey to where she is today began in the analogue world.  She spent nine years as the fashion director at Lucky Magazine , prior to which she was the fashion director at Self Magazine and an editor at Mirabella and Harper’s Bazaar....

Kevin McMullin is the founder and Head of Talent at Collegewise , the world’s largest college admissions counseling company. Kevin founded Collegewise in Irvine, California, in 1999 using his last paycheck from his previous job. He started out that fall working with nine students at their kitchen tables to help them find the right colleges and complete their applications.  Within a year, over 100...

Joshua Haynes is the founder of Masawa , a mental wellness social impact fund . After living with mental illness for decades Joshua came to realize that his unhealthy relationship with food was linked to his poor mental health. He began to take serious steps to strengthen his own mental health, but noticed that, despite statistics that showed high rates of mental illness among the American public,...

George Leon is the CEO and founder of Cakewalk Entertainment, a full-service promotional marketing entertainment agency which pushes entertainment properties and brands beyond the silver screen and into consumers’ everyday lives. George is a one-of-a-kind specialist in global promotions and franchise development in the entertainment space and has over 25 years of experience. As EVP of Sony Picture...

Shawn Olds is the Chief Executive Officer of boodle a.i. , the leading machine learning peer-to-peer platform that empowers nonprofits to connect with and engage new donors and companies to find their best customers . Shawn started his career in the U.S Army in the 82nd Airborne Division before transitioning to the private sector as a logistics operations and technology consultant as well as an IT...

Ian Bremmer is president and founder of Eurasia Group , the world’s leading political risk research and consulting firm, and GZERO Media, a company dedicated to providing intelligent and engaging coverage of international affairs. He is credited with bringing the craft of political risk to financial markets, creating Wall Street’s first global political risk index (GPRI), and for estab...

Alex Valaitis is a product manager* and product lead of Elevate, one of LinkedIn’s enterprise product lines — with 12 dedicated engineers. When Alex graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in December 2016 with a double major in Economics and Computer Science, he had a sub-3.0 GPA.  And yet, he still managed to secure a job as a PM at Intuit. While at Intuit, Alex led a team in...

Alex Valaitis is a product manager* and product lead of Elevate, one of LinkedIn’s enterprise product lines — with 12 dedicated engineers. When Alex graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in December 2016 with a double major in Economics and Computer Science, he had a sub-3.0 GPA.  And yet, he still managed to secure a job as a PM at Intuit. While at Intuit, Alex led a team in...

Alex Valaitis is a product manager* and product lead of Elevate, one of LinkedIn’s enterprise product lines — with 12 dedicated engineers. When Alex graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in December 2016 with a double major in Economics and Computer Science, he had a sub-3.0 GPA.  And yet, he still managed to secure a job as a PM at Intuit. While at Intuit, Alex led a team in...

Alex Valaitis is a product manager* and product lead of Elevate, one of LinkedIn’s enterprise product lines — with 12 dedicated engineers. When Alex graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in December 2016 with a double major in Economics and Computer Science, he had a sub-3.0 GPA.  And yet, he still managed to secure a job as a PM at Intuit. While at Intuit, Alex led a team in...

Tim Naftali is a CNN presidential historian and associate professor at New York University in a joint appointment at NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and the history department. From 1998 to 2006, Tim was the founding director of the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs as well as a professor in the history department. In 200...

Alex Valaitis is a product manager* and product lead of Elevate, one of LinkedIn’s enterprise product lines — with 12 dedicated engineers. When Alex graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in December 2016 with a double major in Economics and Computer Science, he had a sub-3.0 GPA.  And yet, he still managed to secure a job as a PM at Intuit. While at Intuit, Alex led a team in...

Siji Onabanjo is the chief growth officer at Cyber-Duck , a digital transformation agency in London. He leads the client services, new business and marketing departments as well as guiding the overall strategic direction of the agency. Over the years, Siji has won many accolades including:  Account Handler of the Year at the Wirehive Awards , BIMA ( British Interactive Media Association ) as among...

Frank Sesno is an Emmy-winning journalist and currently serves as the Director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University. He is also the creator of Planet Forward , a multi-media initiative that showcases environmental reporting by college students. Frank is the former Bureau Chief of CNN’s Washington, DC bureau where he worked for 21 years. He has also narrated two...

Christopher Schroeder is an entrepreneur, CEO, advisor and writer focused on interactive technologies and social communications both nationally and internationally. He is the co-founder of Next Billion Ventures , a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs working in developing markets. Chris has also been the CEO for a number of organizations and startups including LEGI-SLATE; The Washin...