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PRWeek Coffee Break
by Steve Barrett, PRWeek
Coffee Break is a weekly 15-minute intermission in your working day to discover more about marcomms pros who occupy interesting roles across the industry.
Episodes
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Coffee Break with Common Goal's Ben Miller
This week on Coffee Break, PRWeek editorial director Steve Barrett is joined by Ben Miller, founding team member and chief adviser at Common Goal, to discuss the soccer nonprofit’s mission, its new deal with Adidas, and the organization’s anti-racism project. Coffee Break topics: 1:50 - How…
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Coffee Break with Matt Prince, senior PR manager, Taco Bell
Prince talks about the return of Mexican Pizza, which blew up on social media when Taco Bell originally removed it from its menu in 2020.
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Coffee Break with Steve Hirsch, CEO, founding & managing partner, Hirsch Leatherwood.
This week on Coffee Break, Hirsch reveals the secret sauce inside his new versatile, agile, generalist agency. Hirsch, together with Evan Leatherwood (duos at SJR, Hill+ Knowlton and WPP), set up their very own shop in December 2020. Today, with a staff of 20 based out of an office in midtown...
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Coffee Break with Gulden Mesara, chief marketing and communications officer at City of Hope
Mesara talks about leading both marcomms roles at the 100-year-old cancer treatment center, which recently acquired Cancer Treatment Centers of America, thus extending its reach nationally to encompass 115,000 patients. She also talks about her long career in comms at pharma at Pfizer, Abbott and...
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Coffee Break with Arielle Patrick, CCO, Ariel Investments
This week on Coffee Break, PRWeek editorial director Steve Barrett is joined by Arielle Patrick, CCO of Ariel Investments. Ariel is the first Black-owned investment firm in the U.S. and currently has almost $20 billion in funds under its management. Co-CEO Mellody Hobson has long been a mentor of...
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Coffee Break with Lou Hoffman, president and CEO, The Hoffman Agency
Hoffman looks back at founding his agency in Silicon Valley almost 35 years ago and how PR has evolved over the decades.
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Coffee Break with Ben LaBolt, partner, Bully Pulpit Interactive
Ben LaBolt talks about working on the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court and how skills learned in the political realm are transferable to the corporate world.
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Coffee Break with Naimul Huq, SVP, operations, VaynerNFT
This week on Coffee Break, PRWeek editorial director Steve Barrett is joined by Naimul Huq, SVP of operations at VaynerNFT.
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Coffee Break with Dave Tovar, SVP, communications & government relations, GrubHub
Tovar talks about moving from McDonald's to take the lead role at GrubHub 7 months ago, getting the go-ahead from the delivery company's CEO to invest in a comms team and bringing on Golin as its consumer AOR, the fourth time he has worked with the Interpublic Group agency (previously at...
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Coffee Break with Leela Stake, global head, FH4Inclusion, and global co-lead, True Mosaic
Stake discusses the intersection of sustainability, DE&I and philanthropy, as well as pushing companies to use their power to do good in the world.
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Coffee Break with Donna Lavoie, president & CEO, LavoieHealthScience
This week on Coffee Break, PRWeek editorial director Steve Barrett is joined by Donna Lavoie, president & CEO, LavoieHealthScience. LavoieHealthScience saw great success in 2019, 2020 and 2021. Their continued growth looks promising for the future and has led to the launching of a new IR practice.
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Coffee Break with Miroslava Gribova, deputy MD, Be-it Agency
Gribova talks emotionally about the morning in February when the invasion started, waking up early in the morning and hearing bombing in the distance, fleeing to Germany where her sister lives with her daughter, leaving her husband back in Kyiv, how the agency's staffers reacted, the importance…
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Coffee Break with Rachael Horwitz, CMO, Haun Ventures
This week on Coffee Break, PRWeek editorial director Steve Barrett is joined by Rachael Horwitz, CMO, Haun Ventures. Launched last week, Haun Ventures is helmed by Katie Haun, who has a decade of experience at the US Department of Justice prosecuting organized crime, murders, public corruption,...
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Coffee Break with Michael Olguin, president and CEO, Havas Formula
This week on Coffee Break, PRWeek editorial director Steve Barrett is joined by Michael Olguin, president and CEO at Havas Formula. Now with 200 employees across six U.S. offices, Olguin recalls the tough times in the evolution of the business and the decision to be acquired by Havas, before...
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Coffee Break with Catherine Frymark, EVP, corporate communications, Mattel
This week on Coffee Break, PRWeek editorial director Steve Barrett is joined by Catherine Frymark, EVP, corporate communications at Mattel. The duo talks about Frymark joining the iconic LA-based toy company during lockdown, the evolution of Barbie and plans for a movie next year. She also...
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Coffee Break with Michael Ramlet, co founder and CEO, Morning Consult
This week on Coffee Break, PRWeek editorial director Steve Barrett is joined by Michael Ramlet, cofounder and CEO of Morning Consult. Ramlet discusses cofounding the global decision intelligence company in 2014 with $30,000 and parlaying it into an enterprise that secured Series B funding of $75...
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Coffee Break with Jeff Smokler, partner, Imre
This week on Coffee Break, PRWeek editorial director Steve Barrett is joined by Jeff Smokler, partner, Imre. Smokler discusses the development in life sciences, healthcare and pharma marketing and communications at the firm and in the market generally, especially over the past two years. Smokler...
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Coffee Break with Tiffany Guarnaccia, founder and CEO, Kite Hill PR
This week on Coffee Break, PRWeek editorial director Steve Barrett is joined by Tiffany Guarnaccia, founder and CEO of Kite Hill PR.
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Coffee Break with Art Stevens, managing partner, The Stevens Group.
Art Stevens offers a primer for firms looking to be acquired, discusses the recent growth in the PR market and shares tips for potential sellers on what to and not to do.
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Coffee Break with Stephanie Crockett, president & COO, Mower
Recently appointed president of Mower, Crockett talks about how the agency has operated since the beginning of the pandemic, the work being done in small-towns versus big cities and her role overseeing the independent marketing and comms firm as a whole.
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Coffee Break with Chris Gidez, founding partner of G7 Reputation Advisory
The 30-year industry veteran discusses climate change, PR firms’ role in fossil fuels and a future of automobiles without carbon.
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Coffee Break with Kate Ryan, MD at Diffusion PR
Ryan discusses Diffusion’s direct-to-consumer annual index, its benefits and the impact e-commerce has made to the world of shopping.
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Coffee Break with Hilary Rosen, vice chair of SKDKnickerbocker
The long-standing Democratic-leaning communicator and strategist talks about stepping back from SKDKnickerbocker, the firm where she has worked for almost 12 years.
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Coffee Break with Doug Simon, CEO at D S Simon Media
The influencer marketing firm leader discusses changes over 35 years of satellite media tours, their purpose and why they will be around in the future.
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Coffee Break with Thomas Gensemer, chief strategy officer at Public Policy Holding Company
Government affairs agency group strategy lead talks about going public on the London Stock Exchange, trends in public affairs and lobbying and growth plans for 2022.
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Coffee Break with Josh Passman, CEO, New York, Lansons
This week on Coffee Break, PRWeek editorial director Steve Barrett is joined by Josh Passman, CEO, Lansons, New York. Lansons, New York is an extension of the London office. From mutual clients, the financial market and his journey to the firm, Passman talks about the newly branded company and…
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Coffee Break with Matt Middleman, founder + CEO of LifeSci Communications
This week on Coffee Break, PRWeek editorial director Steve Barrett is joined by Matt Middleman, founder + CEO of LifeSci Communications. He's actually Dr. Matt Middleman and he talks about founding and leading a PR firm where 1/3 of its 65 staffers are doctors or scientists. Formed almost five...
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