Time4Coffee Podcast

Matthew Barker puts his expertise and passion into practice in his position as an arborist for the city of Alexandria, Virginia. His days include examining trees and assessing their health and well being, as well as planning strategic tree plantings in an urban foreign to maximize the human health and wellness benefits of each tree planted in Alexandria. Prior to his current position, Matthew work...

Mike Steep is the Executive Director of Stanford Universities’ Digital Cities Program and in this Espresso Shots episode he breaks down the ways to get started in both the corporate and start-up sectors of the disruptive technology industry. Mike is a highly experienced expert in this field and he shares some of the vast knowledge he’s accumulated in his 40+ years of academia and first-hand experi...

Lisa Shalett is a Managing Partner & Head of Strategic Innovation at Brookfield Asset Management, a position she took after a year-long ‘retirement’ during which she advised startups and worked as an angel investor. Lisa is an expert in the field of investment banking and financial services, acquiring wisdom from her impressive 20 year career at Goldman Sachs, one of the largest investment ban...

Sarah Hillware has spent a decade designing, implementing and managing effective public affairs and social impact campaigns in the public health, gender equality, educational and environmental fields.  As a consultant now with the World Bank, Sarah works at the intersection of international development communications and project operations, with the goal of driving global action and national polic...

Jason Bellini is an award-winning journalist who reports on and produces multimedia stories for the Wall Street Journal. If you need a blast of passion for a profession, T4C has you covered with today’s Espresso Shots featuring the super straight-talking Jason who broke into the industry through one-man-banding journalism pieces out of a van to more recently, taking a team down to Brazil to shoot...

Jonathan Sackett is the President & Chief Content Officer (CCO) at Allscope Media and Communications.  Have you ever been curious about the advertising industry and how you can get your foot in the door? Well, pour yourself a shot of strong espresso and get ready to hear about the basics of getting into the advertising and marketing world from one of the industry’s experts.   Jonathan has work...

Eric Porterfield is the Consumer Communications Manager for Social Good at Facebook.  He joined the social media giant after spending seven years at the United Nations Foundation where he most recently worked as the Senior Communications Director, supporting communications across global issues, partnerships and events. During his time at the UN Foundation he built a journalism fellowship program t...

Lindy Morris Fishburne is the Managing Partner of Breakout Ventures , a venture capital fund, or in layman’s terms, the pot of “seed” money that investors give startups to get their ideas off the ground. Lindy, who specifically works with STEM startups, focuses getting budding science and tech companies out of the lab and into the market. Lindy is also the Executive Director of Breakout Labs...

Marie Appel is the Manager of Analytics* at The Commit Partnership which has become the largest educational community-based collective impact organization in the U.S. as measured by either staff, by budget, or by total students supported (790,000+ ages 0 thru 22).  After growing up in a small town of 300 to becoming the first in her family to go to college (she went to Harvard on a scholarship), M...

Jose Castaneda is the Communications Manager* for the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) the trade association for the high tech sector — from hardware to software to services — representing the most innovative technology brands in the world.   In this role Jose drafts blog posts for ITI’s policy teams, manages media relations with reporters and leads ITI’s social media effo...

Eugenia Harvey has left an indelible mark on the world of news media as a veteran broadcast journalist on ABC News’ “PrimeTime Live”, BET, CNN and the Steve Harvey Show. Today Eugenia serves as the executive producer and project director of multi-platform initiatives at WNET, a public television station that operates in the New York metropolitan area. At WNET, Eugenia manages two public media init...

Brian Solis is a Digital Analyst and Digital Anthropologist at the Altimeter Group and left college before graduating so that he could pursue his passion. He had always been interested in technological advancements and their influence over both businesses and individuals, so he decided to combine them into one job description.  He studies the trajectory of disruptive technologies and evaluates how...

Eve Rosenbaum is the Manager of International Scouting for the 2017 World Series Champion Houston Astros.  It’s a dream come true for this baseball lover who played ball most of her life, including playing softball in college. Shortly after graduating, her childhood dream came true.  Today, Eve scouts young baseball stars around the world, frequently traveling to Colombia and the Dominican Republi...

Elise Gaston Chand has held a number of titles in a few different fields including working in human resources for 3 decades for companies like Starbucks and Yum! Brands– owner of KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut. Most recently, she started her podcast — Because of Horses — in October 2017.  If you’re curious about breaking into Human Resources or the horse industry or both ? Well, yo...

Ben Wittes is the Editor-in-Chief and co-Founder of the Lawfare blog , an online publication dedicated to national security issues, published by the Lawfare Institute in cooperation with the Brookings Institution.  It was started in September 2010 by Wittes, a former editorial writer for the Washington Post, Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith and University of Texas at Austin law professo...

Laurie Palau is an organization expert. She’s the author of the book Hot Mess: A Practical Guide to Getting Organized , the founder and CEO of Simply B Organized , and the host of the podcast This Organized Life . But she didn’t always know she’d become a clutter-cleansing guru. When Laurie was doing her undergrad at Rider college in Communication and Political Science, she thought she wanted to b...

Dennis Whittle has worked for the past 30 years in philanthropy and aid. He is currently the co-founder and CEO at Feedback Labs a consortium which aims to change the norms in development, aid, and philanthropic policy to be more responsive to the people that those policies aim to help.  Dennis also co-founded and was the CEO of GlobalGiving , a global crowdfunding platform for grassroots charitab...

Lenny Stern is a founding partner of creative marketing communication agency SS+K , the advertising agency that created the youth campaigns for the Barack Obama presidential campaigns of 2008 and 2012. Lenny grew up in Queens, NY and started his career in the competitive, zero-sum world of politics. His background instilled in him a unique approach he still uses today: Define yourself. Define who...

Chris Luecke is a Sales & Marketing Account Manager at Rockwell Automation , and the host of Pubcast Worldwide podcast . When he graduated from Marquette University 2009 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Marketing was the farthest thing from his mind.  When he started college, he thought he wanted to be a roller coaster engineer, but eventually realized that being stuck behind a desk solv...

Becky D’Anna is the Executive Director of International Marketing Partnerships at Sony Pictures Entertainment and has been obsessed with movies since she was a child. By the time she was 15 she knew exactly what she wanted to do: market movies.  She figured her best bet was to go to a university in the Los Angeles area. So, she applied to USC and got in. During her studies in LA, Becky interned at...

Mick Ebeling is an award-winning film, television, and commercial producer, philanthropist, entrepreneur, and public speaker. He is the founder and CEO of The Ebeling Group, an international production company and creative think tank representing some of the world’s leading design/director collectives. He is also the founder of Not Impossible Labs, an online crowd-sourcing platform instigating the...

Margaret Richardson is Chief of Staff to the President & Editor-in-Chief of Devex, a social enterprise and media platform for the global development community.  As Chief of Staff her primary responsibilities include: providing critical, high-level support and guidance to Raj Kumar, the President & Editor-in-Chief, and assisting in Devex’s external affairs and communications, engaging and m...

Naren Aryal co-founded Mascot Books, where he is CEO & Publisher, in 2003 with a single self-published book about about a collegiate mascot and zero experience in the publishing industry. When that book took off he was more than happy to quit his job as a corporate attorney and dive headfirst into the dynamic world of books. Since then Mascot Books, a full-service hybrid book publishing compan...

Sarah Robb O’Hagan is the CEO of Flywheel Sports*, the fastest growing indoor cycling company.  She learned the hard way why professionals who thrive must ‘step up’, ‘stand out’ and ‘kick ass’. And, oh yeah, why it’s essential to repeat all of the above if you want to succeed!  Sarah is on the cutting edge as a leader in the fitness industry which is currently experiencing a major transformation t...

Dr. Arthur Brooks is President of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a non-partisan public policy think tank in Washington, D.C.,  where he works with top scholars, policymakers, and elected officials to fight for for all Americans’ access to free enterprise and earned success. Dr. Brooks’ path to the nation’s capital was anything but typical. At 19, he left college to play the French horn,...