Amtower Off Center

Hosted by nationally-known speaker and consultant Mark Amtower,  Amtower Off-Center highlights the good, the bad, the ugly and the just plain silly of doing business in the government market. Every week experts join Mark for a lively discussion of current issues facing the government contractor community.


  • Visible Thread CEO Fergal McGovern joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center for a lively and informative conversation aboutgenerative AI.
    February 22, 2024
  • This week on Amtower Off Center, host Mark Amtower intervews Kevin Jans, president of Skyway Acquisition and the host of the Contracting Officer's podcast.
    February 15, 2024
  • Washington Technology Editor in Chief Nick Wakeman joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center, to discuss some of the biggest stories in contracting, including trends in mergers and acquisitions and the impact of a year long continuing resolution.
    January 31, 2024
  • Teresa Moon, director of Business Development & Marketing at Parabilis, joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center, for a wide ranging discussion of the top issues facing small business contractors.
    January 30, 2024
  • ACT-IAC CEO Dave Wennergren joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center for a lively and wide-ranging discussion about his organization.
    November 16, 2023
  • This week on Amtower Off Center, Peter Erickson of MoDev, and the producer of the GovAI Summit, joins host Mark Amtower to discuss the emergence of artificial intelligence as a tech transformational event.
    November 1, 2023
  • Government proposal guru Carl Dickson joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss, among other things, five ways to use AI to Improve proposals and fourteen ways to determine if your proposal is any good.
    October 6, 2023
  • Federal marketing and communcations leader Eileen Rivera joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to talk about her new book, Hard Talk: Confessions of an Accidental Marketing and Communications Professional."
    September 25, 2023
  • GovCon consultant Mike LeJeune of RSM Federal joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center for a wide ranging discussion on branding and marketing in GovCon.
    August 30, 2023
  • This week on Amtower Off Center, host Mark Amtower is joined by Kevin Plexico, senior vice president of Information Solutions at Deltek, to discuss the latest Clarity Study. Clarity is Deltek’s annual study on trends…
    August 14, 2023
  • This week on Amtower Off Center, host Mark Amtower is joined by Lee Frederiksen of Hinge Marketing to discuss Lee’s new book, The Visible Expert Revolution. Topics discussed include: What is a visible expert The…
    August 4, 2023
  • This week on Amtower Off Center, host Mark Amtower is joined by business strategy advisor Shirley Collier of Scale2Market. Topics revolved around strategies for small business growth, including: understanding and controlling how your company is perceived…
    July 21, 2023
  • This week on Amtower Off Center, host Mark Amtower is joined by contracts guru Larry Allen, to discuss the current GovCon landscape. Topics include: Three GSA audit issues to watch out for End of FY…
    June 25, 2023
  • Digital marketing pioneer and Evalueserve Vice President Geoff Livingston, joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss artificial intelligence and ChatGPT.
    April 24, 2023