🎙️ In Episode #235 of The Geek Within, my guest is Taylor Kelley. She is a Director of Business Development at GDIT, a graduate of both the ACT-IAC Associates and Voyagers program, and a proud mom. Taylor and I met during her Associates program and continue to run into each other at all the local networking events. We also took time to discuss the challenges caused by contract award protests and impacts on the people involved. Thank you for joining me.

🔗 You can engage Taylor here:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylor-kelley-825b33a4/

🎙️ In Episode #234 of The Geek Within, my guest is Jade Pech. She is Director of Analytics at Scope Infotech, Inc, a software engineering company in the federal contracting space. Jade was previously a Data Scientist at the FAA, which is when we met. Jade and I discuss how people looking at the job situation today need to be willing to put the work in and make whatever changes are needed to get through to the other side. Thank you for joining me.

🔗 You can engage Jade here:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jade-pech-92574630/

🎙️ In Episode #233 of The Geek Within, my guest is Karen F Lee. She is a Co-founder and President of FedsForward, an organization committed to helping civil servants continue their service to the nation by moving forward into mission-driven careers across all sectors of the economy. They are a staunchly non-partisan organization focused on enabling mission-driven individuals to make an impact in for-profit, non-profit, and governmental organizations. We talked a bit about how large the challenges are in migrating your career amongst sections, such as public service to private sector. Thank you for joining me.

🔗 You can engage Karen here:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenfranceslee/

Website - https://www.fedsforward.org/

🎙️ In Episode #232 of The Geek Within, my guest is Brian Numainville. He is a Principal at The Feedback Group, President of NUMINSIGHT LLC, and an author of Feedback Rules!: 52 ways to listen to your stakeholders. Brian has deep expertise in public relations, content strategy, AI integration, and digital marketing, which he uses to bring his unique ability to turn complex data into compelling stories that resonate. We talk about how being young is treated as a negative since you don't have deep experience. Thank you for joining me.

🔗 You can engage Brian here:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/numainville/

Book - https://a.co/d/dtOgJR7

🎙️ In Episode #231 of The Geek Within, my guest is Rob Fawcett. He is the Founder and Principal Consultant of The Human CTO, where he provides leadership support for executives who need a strategic technology partner. Rob also focuses on product, data, AI, and software delivery alignment when execution isn't landing and with suppling fractional tech and transformation change roles when a team needs experienced direction without the full-time baggage. Thank you for joining me.

🔗 You can engage Rob here:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rfawcett/

🎙️ In Episode #230 of The Geek Within, my guest is Mahdieh Ghalampoor, although she goes by Maddie. She is the Director of Service Delivery at Abaco Strategy, LLC. She is passionate about innovation and enthusiastic about helping other people grow. We chat a bit about how many organizational changes are made without consideration for the human element. Thank you for joining me.

🔗 You can engage Maddie here:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahdieh-gholampoor-phd-executive-director-0a374b41/

🎙️ In Episode #229 of The Geek Within, my guest is Lauren Wittenberg Weiner. She is the founder of WWC Global, a woman-owned government-focused management consulting firm that was founded to provide professional opportunities for military spouses, growing the business into 350+ person firm before selling in 2022. Lauren is the author of the National Bestseller UNRULY, which has the subtitle - Deconstruct the Rules, Defy the Norms, and Define Your Success. She is a Keynote and TEDx Speaker, National Security Thought Leader, a "Business Therapist", and a proud hockey mom. We chat a bit about how sometimes it is important to focus on marginal changes and empathy for those who are usually left out. Thank you for joining me.

🔗 You can engage Lauren here:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-wittenberg-weiner/

Book - https://www.amazon.com/Unruly-Deconstruct-Rules-Define-Success-ebook/dp/B0DL7NVMZN

🎙️ In Episode #228 of The Geek Within, my guest is Wes Kussmaul. He is the CEO of The Authenticity Institute, which is an incubator that supports companies providing measurably reliable identities of individuals to their target markets in healthcare, finance, critical infrastructure protection, and others where reliable identity is important. Wes was the founder of Kussmaul Encyclopedia in 1981, which featured an encyclopedia, email, and primitive chat, which later became Delphi Internet Services Corp. I am looking forward to hearing more about how all of that happened. Wes and I talk about the importance of privacy and how the internet has taken that away from most of us and we want it back.

🔗 You can engage Wes here:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/weskussmaul/

Other links from Wes:

https://silibandia.com/

https://escapesilibandia.com/

https://trustedandtrue.net/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/weskussmaul/

https://www.amazon.com/Escape-Plantation-Wes-Kussmaul-ebook/dp/B014CO8OAC