Through The Noise

In this episode of Insights, Ernesto and Mickey talk about Donor Management Systems, the right approach to choosing or changing one, requirement identification, system integration, and long term satisfaction. Every so often, Ernesto Gluecksmann and Mickey Panayiotakis sit down and talk about digital security, new software, technologies, trends, regulations that may impact leaders of organizations. Listen to their Insights on this segment of Through The Noise.

Babu Sivadasan, co-founder and CEO of JIFFY.ai, is a passionate serial entrepreneur with public company experience, is an active angel investor and mentor, and is an engineer at heart. Prior to JIFFY.ai, Babu co-founded and led Envestnet (NYSE: ENV) in a variety of leadership roles and was also the co-founding CTO of Stamps.com (Nasdaq: STMP). JIFFY.ai delivers an app-based, enterprise-level intelligent automation platform that radically alters and improves how businesses automate, operate and innovate, shifting how employees interact with technology to get work done and ultimately improving business outcomes

Opportunity International CEO Atul Tandon’s career has been marked by successfully conceptualizing, building, scaling and turning around some of the world’s largest, best known, and most impactful for-profit and non-profit enterprises and networks. His work spans several industries including, consumer banking, e-Commerce, consumer insights, health, and humanitarian relief and development, among others. Opportunity International designs, delivers, and scales innovative financial solutions to empower families living in extreme poverty to transform their lives and communities via sustainable livelihoods and quality education.

George and Ernesto sit down and talk about podcasting, how to use it to showcase your work and build your client base, recognizing and reaching your audience, and creating the right content. George is the Chief Whaler of Whole Whale, a B-Corp digital marketing and analytics agency for social impact. A father of 2 little ones, George is the former CTO of DoSomething.org, founder of CTOs For Good and is the Co-Founder of PowerPoetry.org. Founded in 2010, Whole Whale has grown to help 100s of social impact clients while developing educational products that include online courses, podcasts, and tons of online fundraising content.

Ernesto and Mickey share their insights on Association Management Systems and AMS Optimization. They discuss the common problems their clients run into, their assessment process, what goes into choosing the right AMS, making sure it integrates with the other systems in place, and ensuring that it serves the user. For AMS Optimization and other services from Through The Noise, visit getthroughthenoise.com. Every so often, Ernesto Gluecksmann and Mickey Panayiotakis sit down and talk about digital security, new software, technologies, trends, regulations that may impact leaders of organizations. Listen to their Insights on this segment of Through The Noise.

Mickey and Ernesto dive into a conversation around data once again, but this time it's about the data itself. They share their insights on data integrity, where they discuss the data we save, for how long we need to save it, keeping it updated, and the tools that can help with its maintenance. Every so often, Ernesto Gluecksmann and Mickey Panayiotakis sit down and talk about digital security, new software, technologies, trends, regulations that may impact leaders of organizations. Listen to their Insights on this segment of Through The Noise.

Jonathan Stark is a former software developer who is now on a mission to rid the world of hourly billing. He is the author of Hourly Billing Is Nuts, the host of Ditching Hourly, and writes a daily newsletter on pricing for independent professionals.

As President and CEO of the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA), Heidi Brock serves as the chief advocate for the pulp, paper, packaging and wood products manufacturing sector – an industry which accounts for approximately four percent of the total U.S. manufacturing GDP, manufactures nearly $300 billion in products annually and employs approximately 950,000 men and women. The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) is the national trade association of the paper and wood products industry and advances public policies that promote a strong and sustainable U.S. forest products industry in the global marketplace.

Tom Kiernan began as CEO of the American Wind Energy Association in 2013 after serving for 15 years as the President of the National Parks Conservation Association. Tom is a native of Arlington, VA, has an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College in Environmental Computer Modeling, and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. AWEA is the national trade association for the U.S. wind industry, the largest source of renewable energy in the country, representing 1,000 member companies, 120,000 jobs in the U.S. economy, and a nationwide workforce located across all 50 states.

Daniel Brooks is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Linnean Society of London, and a Research Fellow of the Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, University of Nebraska State Museum. He has been working for the past decade as a free-lance consultant on the evolutionary biology of climate change and emerging disease. He is also an author of The Stockholm Paradigm, which we discussed in his previous episode, during the beginning of the coronavirus lockdown. Daniel Brooks joined us again on Through The Noise to talk about the current pandemic situation, the knowledge we had before the coronavirus outbreak, and why we should have been better prepared.

Susan Robertson is the President & CEO of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). She oversees all strategic and operational aspects of the ASAE, ASAE Research Foundation, and its for-profit subsidiary, ASAE Business Solutions. ASAE connects great ideas and great people to inspire leadership and achievement within the association community.

Abdulwahab Alkebsi is the Managing Director for Programs at the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE). Alkebsi oversees more than 120 programs in over 55 countries and supervises a staff across nine countries, including Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Tunisia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Ukraine, and at CIPE’s head office in Washington, DC. Louisa Tomar is a Program Officer on the Global team at the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE). Tomar specializes in public policy on anti-corruption, digital economy, and digital rights. Tomar oversees cross-regional projects on democratic governance, anti-corruption compliance, and the intersection of technology and democracy. The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) is the only institution in the world that works to support democracy and to strengthen the private sector by working with local business leaders to expand the opportunity for inclusive growth through market-led solutions. Listen to CIPE's podcast, Democracy

Michael Shifflet is an Asia-Pacific Studies Graduate with an International Educator Background. Mike talks about being quarantined, how officials in Taiwan track his movement on his mobile phone, and what this means for personal privacy. Every so often, Ernesto Gluecksmann and Mickey Panayiotakis sit down and talk about digital security, new software, technologies, trends, regulations that may impact leaders of organizations. Listen to their Insights on this segment of Through The Noise.  

Gregory Wetstone is President and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy, a national nonprofit that unites finance, policy and technology to accelerate the transition to a renewable energy economy. Founded in 2001, the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) is the nation’s premier pan-renewable organization uniting finance, policy and technology to accelerate the transition to a renewable energy economy.

With an international career spanning 3 decades, John Friedman is an award-winning communications professional and recognized sustainability expert who has helped some of the leading global companies to integrate their operational, financial, and cultural aspirations into sustainable and responsible business practices. The WGL family of companies—Washington Gas, WGL Energy, WGL Midstream and Hampshire Gas—are indirect, wholly-owned subsidiaries of AltaGas Ltd. and provides options for natural gas, electricity, green power and energy services, including generation, storage, transportation, distribution, supply and efficiency. John Friedman's Book Managing Sustainability: First Steps to First Class (Business Expert Press) provides a compelling case, real-world examples, and the tools to follow a proven strategy for aligning sustainability efforts with existing organizational priorities to drive results and enhance reputation.

Adam Krantz is CEO of the National Association of Clean Water Agencies. He directs a Washington, D.C., team that advocates on behalf of the nation’s public clean water agencies on an array of regulatory, legislative, legal, and communication initiatives geared toward ensuring sustainable clean water agencies. NACWA represents public wastewater and stormwater agencies of all sizes nationwide and has been the nation’s recognized leader in legislative, regulatory and legal advocacy on the full spectrum of clean water issues, as well as a top technical resource for water management, sustainability and ecosystem protection interests for more than four decades.

David Lusk, Founder of Key Advocacy, has over 20 years’ experience in the advocacy space. Since 2010, over 7,000 association members, nonprofit volunteers and C-Suite executives have attended his advocacy training sessions. Grasstops advocacy networks built by David have repeatedly received national recognition as model programs for the industry. David graduated from Brown University with degrees in both Public Policy and Business Economics. He currently holds a leadership role with the American Society of Association Executives as a member of the Government Relations and Advocacy Professionals Advisory Council. Key Advocacy specializes in providing advocate training and developing nationwide grassroots and grasstops programs for associations, nonprofits and corporations.   Matthew Zablud is a founding Partner at Beekeeper Group. He previously worked on the e-Campaign team at the national headquarters of the Bush-Cheney ’04 presidential campaign, and before that was a lawyer and campaign manager in Melbourne,

Tom Costabile, ASME’s Executive Director / CEO, is a Mechanical Engineer by training who began his career in the nuclear power industry before moving on to numerous leadership roles in the music distribution industry. Since joining ASME in May of 2018, Tom has made re-engagement with ASME’s students, sections and volunteers a cornerstone of his tenure. Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME is a not-for-profit professional organization that enables collaboration, knowledge sharing and skill development across all engineering disciplines, while promoting the vital role of the engineer in society.

Dan Misleh has been engaged in the social mission of the Catholic Church since 1982 when he joined the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. In 2006, he founded Catholic Climate Covenant as a way to help the Catholic community understand and act on climate change from a position of faith. Catholic Climate Covenant helps to educate the Catholic community on creation care and provides programs and resources to help it be better stewards of the planet. Catholic Energies is a program of Catholic Climate Covenant.

On Daniel Brooks: Professor emeritus, University of Toronto, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Research Fellow of the Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, University of Nebraska State Museum. Working for the past decade as a free-lance consultant on the evolutionary biology of climate change and emerging disease (current major project with the Hungarian National Institute of Ecology). The crisis of emerging disease has been a century and a half in the making. Human, veterinary and crop health practitioners convinced themselves that disease could be controlled by medicating the sick, vaccinating those at risk, and eradicating the parts of the biosphere responsible for disease transmission. Most climate scientists made no connection between climate changes and disease. A new understanding of the evolution of pathogen-host systems, called the Stockholm Paradigm, explains what is happening. The planet is a minefield of pathogens with pre-existing capacity to infect susceptible but unexposed hosts, needing o