An Interview with Martha Stansbury, Director, SBDC at Stony Brook

Episode 6 of the Spark: The InnovateLI Podcast podcast, hosted by InnovateLI, titled "An Interview with Martha Stansbury, Director, SBDC at Stony Brook" was published on June 23, 2025 and runs 39 minutes.

June 23, 2025 ·39m · Spark: The InnovateLI Podcast

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Summary

Small business is the revenue-generating, jobs-producing backbone of regional socioeconomics – and nobody knows this better than Martha Stansbury.As director of the Small Business Development Center at Stony Brook, Martha has many oars in the water – overseeing instructional programs, preparing annual and special-project budgets, addressing the immediate and long-term needs of entrepreneurs, meeting constantly with State University administrators, Long Island lawmakers and other influential stakeholders.In today’s episode, Martha joins Spark host Gregory Zeller to discuss her long business-development career, her personal and professional ambitions and the Stony Brook SBDC’s Job No. 1: helping small businesses throughout Suffolk County survive and thrive, a critical mission that’s essential to the future of the Long Island Innovation Economy.

Episode Description

Small business is the revenue-generating, jobs-producing backbone of regional socioeconomics – and nobody knows this better than Martha Stansbury.

As director of the Small Business Development Center at Stony Brook, Martha has many oars in the water – overseeing instructional programs, preparing annual and special-project budgets, addressing the immediate and long-term needs of entrepreneurs, meeting constantly with State University administrators, Long Island lawmakers and other influential stakeholders.

In today’s episode, Martha joins Spark host Gregory Zeller to discuss her long business-development career, her personal and professional ambitions and the Stony Brook SBDC’s Job No. 1: helping small businesses throughout Suffolk County survive and thrive, a critical mission that’s essential to the future of the Long Island Innovation Economy.