Coffee and Careers

Once a Shoe Dog...always a Shoe Dog.

There is a running joke that once a Shoe Dog always a Shoe Dog. Earning the title of Shoe Dog is a sign of respect for those working in the footwear industry. After 20 years of wholesale footwear sales Kate Carroll has certainly earned the title and the respect of her colleagues and customers.

Ground Floor, Going Up: Mentoring Advertising's Next Gen.

When it comes to landing your dream job in advertising there is nothing more important than your book and your network. And when you need help building your network, Trent Thompson says Ground Floor [http://www.fromthegroundfloor.com] has you covered.

A Global Perspective on Marketing with some Collective Help

Everyone talks about disruption today but only a few are living it. In this episode, we talk with Jamie Read, Brite Birch Collective founder, who built a new marketing agency based on a global perspective but centred on teams of seasoned freelance operatives from around the world.

Stitching and Gluing a Career in Footwear Management

For many watching near identical footwear come off the lasting line may be in itself the third layer of hell; however for Diana Sullivan now in her third decade of Plant Management we learn that is all part and parcel of a career in managing footwear factories, and a role that today only a few still know how to perform.

Once a disrupter, always a disrupter.

While doing business on the golf course has become a bit of a cliché, this entrepreneur became a golf pro in order to conduct business away from the golf greens. Matt Rowlands, a partner at Tekton Performance Films [https://tektonpf.com/], began his 25 year entrepreneurial run focusing on industries that he felt were ripe for change.