BizTimes MKE: Milwaukee Business Insights

Beth Ridley interviews entrepreneur extraordinaire, Faye Wetzel, founder and owners of Faye's contemporary women's fashion boutiques in Mequon and Brookfield. Faye attributes her success as an entrepreneur in the ever changing retail industry to staying curios, leading with purpose and strong values and making panic her friend. In partnership with The Brimful Life.

David Riemer, senior fellow at Community Advocates Public Policy Institute, discussed his new book "Putting Government in its Place: The Case for a New Deal 3.0" during a recent Rotary Club of Milwaukee program. Riemer makes the case that the New Deal model has sputtered since the 1970s in the face of international competition and disruptive technology. He argues for strengthening broad-...

Kimberly Kane, president and CEO of Kane Communications Group, started Kane Communications with a goal of being a different kind of company and a different kind of leader. With a focus on client outcomes, employee growth and development as well as diversity and inclusion, Kane Communications is the type of company you’d love to work for and work with. A partnership with The Brimful Life.

Steve Glickman is the co-founder and former CEO of the Economic Innovation Group (EIG), a bipartisan research and policy organization in Washington, D.C. focused on addressing economic inequality through the creation of a new marketplace for private equity investments in distressed communities. In a recent presentation to the Rotary Club of Milwaukee, Glickman discussed the successes and challenge...

Amanda Baltz is an entrepreneur, business leader, mom of five and CEO of Spaulding Medical. She finds harmony between her personal and professional lives and the energy to pour into her work and home families by focusing on herself first. A partnership with The Brimful Life .

Lyle Landowski, partner and COO at Colliers International, discusses how investing in people brings fulfillment to his profession and his approach for building a culture at Colliers today and in the future.   In Partnership with Beth Ridley and The Brimful Life

Darcy Winslow spent 21 years working at Nike, holding several executive positions, and most notably leading four complex systemic change initiatives within and extending well beyond Nike. She is a prominent leader in sustainability and has worked in all sectors of society, assisting organizations to deeply integrate these principles. Darcy co-founded the Academy for Systems Change in 2010 and has...

Rotarian Richie Burke, president and founder of GGMM and The GoGedders Podcast, interviewed three Shorewood guys, Charlie Hawks, Henry Sanders, and Ben Selig, about their experience completing the grueling Mongol Rally. The trio drove nearly 14,000 miles in a 2002 Suzuki. In partnership with the Rotary Club of Milwaukee.

 Jordan Pintar and Katie Mullen, co-founders of BlackPaint Studios (art and design studio), discuss the journey that brought them to start their own company after becoming disillusioned with the “mad men” culture at their corporate jobs. They also share how they foster a diverse and inclusive culture in their own company as well as advice they would give young women starting out in their careers....

In the last century Milwaukee’s downtown lakefront has changed drastically from a railyard which cut the city off from the waterfront, to the gleaming collection of civic buildings and spaces we enjoy today.   Architect Jim Shields, FAIA traced the history of this dramatic transformation in a talk illustrated with historic drawings and photographs of Juneau Park, the Lincoln Memorial, the Saarinen...

During the 2019 Nonprofit Excellence Awards, BizTimes associate editor Lauren Anderson moderated a panel discussion on housing and homelessness in the Milwaukee area. The panel included Eric Collins-Dyke, homeless outreach services manager at the Milwaukee County Housing Division; Michael Gosman, executive director of Acts Housing; Beth Wierick, CEO of Milwaukee Downtown- BID #21; and Mike Flynn,...

Dr. Payam Akhavan joins the Rotary Club of Milwaukee for its 15th annual U.N. Day Program. He teaches and researches on public international law, international dispute settlement, international criminal law, human rights and cultural pluralism at McGill University. In 2017, he delivered the CBC Massey Lectures, In Search of a Better World. A Human Rights Odyssey , in five different Canadian cities...

Milwaukee has arrived. New development is reshaping downtown and the suburbs and the city is getting national and international attention for the upcoming 2020 Democratic National Convention and for its top sports stars. So, what’s next for Milwaukee? Can the city take advantage of this momentum to reach the next level and gain prosperity for all of its neighborhoods? BizTimes Milwaukee recently h...

Rotarian Jamie Reeve interviewed Glenn Kleiman, Executive Director of 88Nine Radio Milwaukee, and Backline Artist, Klassik. Backline is 88Nine Radio Milwaukee’s program fostering and launching local musician’s careers.  It is a 12-week accelerator for area musicians who are worthy of breaking through into national prominence.  In collaboration with gener8tor, local talent benefits from industry tr...

Colleen Valkoun, President of iHeartMedia Milwaukee, shares how kindness, coffee and donuts are the cornerstones of her strategy to build a cohesive culture among the many diverse business units and people that comprise her organization.  In Partnership with Beth Ridley and The Brimful Life

Dennis Mistrioty is the CEO and Co-Owner of Wisconsin Hemp Scientific. In this episode of the BizTimes MKE Podcast, he shares a brief consumer's guide to CBD, focusing particularly on the current state of the CBD industry.  With hemp and CBD being so new to Wisconsin, Dennis explains why CBD seems to be appearing everywhere, and the importance of researching your CBD supplier before making a...

Digital transformation, changing consumer preferences and artificial intelligence are just some of the disruptors impacting the HVAC industry that Beth Ridley learned about in her conversation with Andrew Larson, Chairman and CEO of Gustave A. Larson Company, the Midwest’s leading distributor of heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration equipment, parts and supplies. Andrew shares h...

Joe Cirincione, author, MSNBC contributor and president of the global security foundation Ploughshares Fund, is one of the country’s foremost experts on nuclear threats and nuclear policy. He will discuss the risk of nuclear war today, focused on three interrelated regional issues: war in the Middle East given mounting tensions between the US and Iran; war with North Korea should nascent negotiati...